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asking for Alexey Dmitritch,' answered Tatyana, laughing and gesticulating. 'I was for saying that he wasn't here, not here at all. We don't know any such person, says I. But then it———'
'Who's—it?'
'Why, this same female article took and wrote her name on this slip of paper here, and says I'm to show it, and that'll admit her; and that if Alexey Dmitritch really isn't at home, then she can wait.'
On the paper stood in large letters, 'Mashurina.'
'Show her in,' said Solomin. 'You won't mind, Marianna, if she comes in here? She, too, is one of ours.'
'Oh, no! indeed!'
A few seconds later Mashurina appeared in the doorway, in the same dress in which we saw her at the beginning of the first chapter.
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