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"The carriage is ready," said Matvey; "but there's so?" asked Stepan Arkadyevitch

"Half an hour"

"How many times have I told you to tell me at once?"

"One must let you drink your coffee in peace, at least," said

Matvey, in the affectionately gruff tone hich it was

iry

"Well, show the person up at once," said Oblonsky, frowning with

vexation

The petitioner, theof a staff captain Kalinin, came with a

request ienerally did, made her sit down, heard her to the end

attentively without interrupting her, and gave her detailed

advice as to how and to whoood and legible hand, a confident and fluent

little note to a personage who ot rid of the staff captain's , Stepan Arkadyevitch took