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a well-to-do peasant of good character belonging to the sa year

"It's a high rent; it wouldn't pay Platon, Konstantin

D the ears off his

sweat-drenched shirt

"But how does Kirillov make it pay?"

"Mituh!" (so the peasant called the house porter, in a tone of

contempt), "you may be sure he'll et his share, however he has to squeeze to

get it! He's no mercy on a Christian But Uncle Fokanitch" (so

he called the old peasant Platon), "do you suppose he'd flay the

skin off a man? Where there's debt, he'll let anyone off And

he'll not wring the last penny out He's a man too"

"But ill he let anyone off?"

"Oh, well, of course, folks are different Oneelse, like Mituh, he only thinks of filling

his belly, but Fokanitch is a righteous et God"

"How thinks of God? How does he live for his soul?" Levin almost

shouted