Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

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Chapter One
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Amber on Tsargrad's pipes, porcelain and bronzes on a table, and-joyance of the pampered senses4 perfumes in crystal cut with facets; combs, little files of steel, straight scissors, curvate ones, and brushes of thirty kinds8 these for the nails, those for the teeth. Rousseau (I shall observe in passing) was unable to understand how the dignified Grimm dared clean his nails in front of him, 12 the eloquent crackbrain.6 The advocate of liberty and rights was in the present case not right at all.