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The Torrents Of Spring - Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich.pdf

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not to let his moustache grow; and finally told<br />

him a number of details about his mother, his<br />

sister, Pantaleone, the poodle Tartaglia, and all<br />

their daily life. Every semblance of timidity<br />

vanished in Emil; he suddenly felt<br />

extraordinarily attracted to Sanin--not at all<br />

because he had saved his life the day before,<br />

but because he was such a nice person! He lost<br />

no time in confiding all his secrets to Sanin. He<br />

expatiated with special warmth on the fact that<br />

his mother was set on making him a<br />

shopkeeper, while he _knew_, knew for<br />

certain, that he was born an artist, a musician,<br />

a singer; that Pantaleone even encouraged<br />

him, but that Herr Klüber supported mamma,<br />

over whom he had great influence; that the<br />

very idea of his being a shopkeeper really<br />

originated with Herr Klüber, who considered<br />

that nothing in the world could compare with<br />

trade! To measure out cloth--and cheat the<br />

public, extorting from it '_Narren--oder Russen<br />

Preise_' (fools'--or Russian prices)--that was his<br />

ideal! [Footnote: In former days--and very<br />

likely it is not different now--when, from May

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