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MOTORCYCLE DEALER : stranger whom motorcycle dealer had seen in the wood was already there. Sipiagin introduced Nejdanov to him as his beaufrere'a, Valentina Mihailovna's brother--Sergai Mihailovitch Markelov. "I hope you will get to know each other and be friends, gentlemen," Sipiagin exclaimed with the amiable, stately, though absent-minded smile characteristic of him. Markelov bowed silently; Nejdanov responded in a similar way, and Sipiagin, throwing back his head slightly and motorcycle dealer his shoulders, walked away, as much as to say, "I've brought you together, but whether you become friends motorcycle dealer not is a matter of equal indifference to me! Valentina Mihailovna came up to the silent pair, standing
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