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The Russians, for the sake of their Government, and the Poles for the credit of their country, ought to unite for once and subscribe a few copecks and groszy, so as to enable the inn-keeper of the place to offer a decent room to the traveler, condemned by an ill-regulated timetable to remain there from nine in the evening until half-past six the next morning.
The hero of "Lawyer Kraykowski's Dancer" turns the tables on the snooty attorney, inserting himself into his life, interfering whenever possible in his walks and his love affair, even paying for his daily pastries in advance as an assault on his independence, explaining to us by way of analogy: "Imagine the lawyer coming out of a public lavatory, reaching for fifteen groszy, and being told that it had already been paid.