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Kuprin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich), 1870-1938

"Yama: the pit"

Because I take only absolutely clean lines
exclusively, of which there can be no doubts. A fake or a bad line
I will not take, although they should offer me millions for it.
Ask wherever you like, in any store which deals in cloths or
suspenders GLOIRE--I'm also a representative from this firm--or
buttons HELIOS--you just ask who Simon Yakovlevich Horizon is, and
everyone will answer you: 'Simon Yakovlevich is not a man, but
gold; this is a disinterested man, as honest as a diamond.' "And
Horizon was already unpacking long boxes with patented suspenders,
and was showing the glistening leaves of cardboard, covered with
regular rows of vari-coloured buttons.
"There happen great unpleasantnesses, when the place has been
worked out, when a lot of travelling salesmen have appeared before
you. Here you can't do anything; they absolutely won't listen to
you, only wave their arms. But that's only for others. I am
Horizon! I can talk him over, the same like a camel from a
menagerie. But it happens still more unpleasant, when two
competitors in one and the same line come together in the same
town.


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