Nikolai Gogol
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At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on. ✨ Nikolai Gogol (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Nikolai Gogol (Illustrated), p.782, Delphi Classics

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