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The filthy staircase smelled of mice, cats, kerosene, and washings. On the sixth floor, Prince Vasily Lvovich stopped for a moment.
"Wait a few seconds," said he to his brother-in-law. "Let me rest awhile. I am afraid we should not have done this, Kolya."