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Excerpt from Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories
For many years, to the days of Petchorin.* All sorts of elements were mingled in that type. Byronism, romanticism, reminiscences Of the French Revolution, Of the Dekabrists - and the worship of Napoleon; faith in destiny, in one's star, in strength of will; pose and fine phrases - and a miserable sense of the emptiness of life; uneasy pangs Of petty vanity - and genu ine strength and daring; generous impulses and defective education, ignorance; aristocratic airs - and delight in trivial foppery. But enough of these general reflections. I prom ised to tell you the story.
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