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The president, who had to take the chair, had arrived early The

president was a tall, stout h

married, he led a very loose life, and his wife did the sa he had

received a note frooverness in his house, and as now on her way fro She wrote that she would wait for him

between five and six pm in the Hotel Italia This made him wish

to begin and get through the sitting as soon as possible, so as

to have time to call before six pm on the little red-haired

Clara Vasilievna, houn a romance in the country

last summer He went into a private room, latched the door, took

a pair of dumb-bells out of a cupboard, moved his arms 20 ti the

duhtly bent his knees three ti like a cold bath and exercise," he said,

feeling the biceps of his right arer of which he wore a gold ring He had still to do the

h those two exercises