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| | The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol |
 | | Their only salvation lies in traversing as quickly as possible, in their thin little overcoats, five or six streets, and then warming their feet well in the porters room, and so thawing all their talents and qualifications for official service, which had become frozen on the way. |
 | | He examined it thoroughly at home, and discovered that in two places, namely, on the back and shoulders, it had become thin as mosquito-netting: the cloth was worn to such a degree that he could see through it, and the lining had fallen into pieces. |
 | | You must know that Akakii Akakievichs overcoat served as an object of ridicule to the officials: they even deprived it of the noble name of overcoat, and called it a kapota. |
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