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BAMBOO WALKING CANE : "What is the matter with you? " Madame Sipiagina asked half- jestingly. bamboo walking cane you lost anything?" "Yes, I have," Kollomietzev replied. "There is a story about a certain officer in the lifeguards who was very much grieved that his soldiers had lost a sock of his. 'Find me my sock!' he would say to them, and I say, find me the word 'sir!' The word ' sir' is lost, and with it every sense of respect towards rank!" Madame Sipiagina informed Kollomietzev that she would not help him in the search. Emboldened by the success of his speech at dinner, Sipiagin delivered two others, in which he let fly various statesmanlike reflections about indispensable measures and various words--des mots--not so bamboo walking cane witty as weighty, which he had especially prepared for St. Petersburg. He even repeated one of these words,
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