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say two words to another's one, and using the vilest language in the
quarreller's vocabulary.
"You are such and such," shouted one of the women. "You are a thief, a
schlukha [a mean, dirty, low creature]; your father-in-law is even now
starving, and you have no shame. You beggar, you borrowed my sieve and
broke it. You made a large hole in it, and did not buy me another."
"You have our scale-beam," cried another woman, "and must give it back
to me;" whereupon she seized the scale-beam and tried to remove it from
the shoulders of Ivan's wife.
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