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He had
been fairly successful as an intermediary in legal matters, and
managed estates and house property. He had made a moderate fortune,
but had taken to drink towards the end of his life and had left
nothing after his death.
Young Paklin, he was called Sila—Sila Samsonitch, [Meaning
strength, son of Samson] and always regarded this name as a joke
against himself, was educated in a commercial school, where he had
acquired a good knowledge of German. After a great many
difficulties he had entered an office, where he received a salary
of five hundred roubles a year, out of which he had to keep
himself, an invalid aunt, and a humpbacked sister. At the time of
our story Paklin was twenty-eight years old. He had a great many
acquaintances among students and young people, who liked him for
his cynical wit, his harmless, though biting, self-confident
speeches, his one-sided, unpedantic, though genuine, learning, but
occasionally they sat on him severely. Once,
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