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Yakov Alexeyevitch Saranin scarcely reached medium size; his wife, Aglaya Nikiforovna, who came of trades-folk, was tall and capacious. Even now, in the first year after their marriage, the twenty-year-old woman was so corpulent that beside her tiny and lean husband, she seemed a very giantess.
"What if she gets still bigger? " thought Yakov Alexeyevitch. He thought this, although he had married for love -- of her and of the dowry.