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"Now tell me, O sapient reader, why Rakhmétof was introduced,81 who has now vanished, and will not appear again in my story? I have already told thee that this figure has no part in my story -- "
"That is not true," says the sapient reader, interrupting me. "Rakhmétof is an important character, for he brought a note from which -- "