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The Chamberlain rubbed his forehead and lowered his eyebrows. The

sportsmen began to murmur, and each made some remark; one how he

had discovered the beast, another how he had wounded it; this one

had called on the dogs, and that turned back the beast into the

forest once more. The Assessor and the Notary disputed, one

exalting the merits of his Sanguszko gun, the other those of his

Sagalas musket from Balabanowka.