Petka

I don't remember the specific conversations I had with Senator Petka, or some of these other senators.

Following His Instincts 2007

With Virubov, I had been sitting on a bench near the wicket-gate of his hut, as intermittently he had screwed his lecherous eyes in the direction of the stout, ox-eyed lacemaker, Madame Ezhov, who, after disposing of her form on a bank hard-by, had fallen to picking lice out of the curls of her eight-year-old Petka

Through Russia 2003

Though Liza looked ten years older than Petka, yet she had all the city air, the American manners and style, and most important of all, she had the capital.

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Petka listened with throbbing heart to the thrilling story of the old man, scratched his head and said:

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However, Petka knew Platon, the village saloon-keeper, as the most gifted man for that purpose.

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After the poem was added and another rose glued on the corner of the letter, it was mailed, registered, with a note "highly urgent," and Petka breathed freely, like one who had survived a great ordeal.

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While Platon was reading the letter Petka gazed dreamily out of the window and built, not an air castle, but a large grocery store, with showy windows.

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Petka carried the trunk and the five suit-cases into he house, implements which on one had ever seen.

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If Petka did not steal the watch, that is one thing; but if he did, then I'll give it to him with the stick, as they used to do in the regiment.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

After arriving home Petka began to practice, writing a love letter every day.

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