Word: parfenitch
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...permit him to go into good society, nor is his company desired at the professor's house. But if he fails to get the scholarship, than the alternative is either to go back to the village as field-hand, or - the world must be changed, as Ossip Parfenitch and all the rest of them say. And so he tries to change the world. He was so confident of getting the scholarship - 250 of them are awarded at the university - and now all his hopes are blasted! It is actually the abuse of scholarships which so frequently leads to the ruin...
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