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Przebyszewski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his

hand to his ear toward Weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed

in attention. Dohkturov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother,

with an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the

outspread map conscientiously studied the dispositions and the

unfamiliar locality. He asked Weyrother several times to repeat

words he had not clearly heard and the difficult names of

villages. Weyrother complied and Dohkturov noted them down.