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you, upon my word, as soon as I have earned them. He" (Velenchúk himself did not know who that "he" was) "has made me out a thief in your eyes. His vile, contemptible soul has taken the last thing away from his brother soldier; here I have been serving fifteen years, and —" To Mikhaíl Doroféich's honour, it must be said that he did not take from him the lacking two roubles, though Velenchúk offered them to him two months later.
