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" Of course," replied Khlopusha, "I'm sinful too, and this right arm" (here he clenched his bony fist and, pushing up his sleeve, bared his shaggy arm), "and this right arm is guilty of shedding Christian blood. But I killed my enemy, not my guest; at open crossroads and in the dark forest, not at home, sitting warm and cozy; with a bludgeon and an axe, not with womanish slander."

" Meeting such a man in the forest, you would have taken him for a robber; in society, for a political conspirator; in the front hall, for a quack peddling elixirs and arsenic." 😂