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Artemy Filippovich Zemlianika Monologue from The Inspector-General

From The Inspector-General by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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You had better look out that he doesn't send you by post a good long ways off. Look here, things of such a nature are not done this way in a well-ordered state. What's the use of a whole regiment here? We must present ourselves to him one at a time, and do--what ought to be done, you know--so that eyes do not see and ears do not hear. That's the way things are done in a well-ordered society. You begin it, Ammos Fiodorovich, you be the first. (AMMOS: You had better go first. The distinguished guest has eaten in your institution.) Then Luka Lukich, as the enlightener of youth, should go first.

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