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The Malefactor


Нешто мы некрещёные или злодеи какие?

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Are we unbaptized, or villains of some sort?

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— Избави господи, ваше благородие! — God preserve us, your honour!

Зачем убивать? Why should we kill anybody?

Слава те господи, господин хороший, век свой прожили и не токмо что убивать, но и мыслей таких в голове не было… Glory be to God, good sir, we have lived out our lives and not only never killed anyone, we never so much as had such thoughts in our heads…

Спаси и помилуй, царица небесная… Save us and have mercy, Queen of Heaven…

The words in this sentence

не́што
really? perhaps? (colloq., arch.)
мы
we
некрещёные
unbaptized (nom pl) — некрещёный
и́ли
or
злоде́и
villains (nom pl) — злодей
каки́е
some kind of (pron., indef.) — какой

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 29 of 73

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