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TIFFANY VASE: spent only two or three roubles of the 50 or 60 he earned a year, just for luxuries--tobacco and matches. "I'm a sinner, when tired I even drink a little vodka sometimes," he added, with a guilty smile. Then he told them how the women did the work at home, and how the contractor had treated them to half tiffany vase pail of vodka before they started to-day, how one of them had tiffany vase and another was returning home ill. The sick workman he was talking about was in a corner of the same carriage. He was a young lad, with a
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