"I can do absolutely
nothing for you ... at least right now. If you desire to marry
her, present a suitable permit from your university authorities.
But if you're taking her on maintenance--then just think, where's
the logic in that? You're taking a girl out of a house of
depravity, in order to live with her in depraved cohabitation."
"A servant, finally," Lichonin put in.
"And even a servant. I'd trouble you to present an affidavit from
your landlord--for, I hope, you're not a houseowner? Very well,
then, an affidavit from your landlord, as to your being in a
position to keep a servant; and besides that, all the documents,
testifying that you're that very person you give yourself out to
be; an affidavit, for instance, from your district and from the
university, and all that sort of thing. For you, I hope, are
registered? Or, perhaps, you are now, eh? ... Of the illegal ones?
"No, I am registered!" retorted Lichonin, beginning to lose
patience.
"And that's splendid. But the young lady, about whom you're
troubling yourself?"
"No, she's not registered as yet.
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