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| | THE NOSE by Gogol |
 | | His one idea was to rid himself of the nose, and return quietly home to do so either by throwing the nose into the gutter in front of the gates or by just letting it drop anywhere. |
 | | But, well though he remembered the Nose's cockaded hat and gold-braided uniform, he had failed at the time to note also its cloak, the color of its horses, the make of its carriage, the look of the lackey seated behind, and the pattern of the lackey's livery. |
 | | The nose's sudden disappearance, its subsequent gaddings about, its masqueradings as, firstly, a chinovnik and, secondly, itself all these have come of witchcraft practiced either by you or by adepts in pursuits of a refinement equal to your own. |
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