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?" sniggered the thin compactflash man, wriggling more than ever. "Your Excellency's gracious attention is like refreshing manna. . . . This, your Excellency, is my son Nafanail, . . . my wife Luise, a Lutheran in a certain sense." The fat man was about to make some protest, but the face of the thin man wore an expression of such reverence, sugariness, and mawkish respectfulness that the privy councillor was sickened. He turned away from the thin man, giving him his hand at parting. The thin man pressed three fingers, bowed compactflash his whole body and sniggered like a Chinaman: "He--he--he!" His wife smiled. Nafanail scraped with his foot and dropped his cap. All three were agreeably overwhelmed. NOTES fleur d'orange: a perfume of the Lutheran persuasion: the thin man has married well; after the Decembrist revolt of 1825 the Russian government depended heavily on its ethnic German minority, who were mostly Lutheran Nafanail: an unusual and humorous-sounding name in Russian third class: third grade Herostratus: madman who in 356 BC burned the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Ephialtes: Greek who betrayed his country at Thermopylae in 480 BC the Stanislav: the thin man has reached the 13th grade (college assessor) in the Civil Service, and has received the order of St.
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