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From time to time storms break out in the landlady's room. Sometimes it happens that the lieutenant, with the assistance of his pupil Romka, sells a heap of somebody else's books to a secondhand dealer. Sometimes he takes advantage of the landlady's absence to intercept the payment for a room by day. Or he secretly begins to have playful relations with the servant-maid. Just the other day the lieutenant abused Anna Friedrichovna's credit in the public-house over the way. This came to light, and a quarrel raged, with abuse and a fight in the corridor. The doors of all the rooms opened, and men and women poked their heads out in curiosity. Anna Friedrichovna shouted so loud that she was heard in the street:
"You get out of here, you blackguard, get out, you tramp! I've spent on you every penny of the money I've earned by sweating blood. You fill your belly with the farthings I sweat for my children!"