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The many privations which Ostap had suffered demanded immediate compensation. That evening the smooth operator drank himself into a stupor and practically fell out of the cable-car on the way back to the hotel. The next day he realized a long-cherished dream and bought a heavenly grey polka-dot suit. It was hot wearing it, but he nevertheless did so, sweating profusely. In the Tif-Co-Op men's shop, Vorobyaninov was bought a white pique" suit and a yachting cap with the gold insignia of some unknown yacht club. In this attire Ippolit Matveyevich looked like an amateur admiral in the merchant navy. His figure straightened up and his gait became firmer. "Ah," said Bender, "first rate! If I were a girl, I'd give a handsome he-man like you an eight per cent reduction off my usual price. My, we can certainly get around like this. Do you know how to get around, Pussy? " "Comrade Bender," Vorobyaninov kept saying, "what about the chairs? We've got to find out what happened to the theatre." "Hoho," retorted Ostap, dancing with a chair in a large Moorish-style room in the Hotel Orient. "Don't tell me how to live. I'm now evil. I have money, but I'm magnanimous. I'll give you twenty roubles and three days to loot the city. I'm like Suvorov. . . . Loot the city, Pussy! Enjoy yourself!" And swaying his hips, Ostap sang in quick time: "The evening bells, the evening bells, How many thoughts they bring. . . ." The friends caroused wildly for a whole week. Vorobyaninov's naval uniform became covered with apple-sized wine spots of different colours; on Ostap's suit the stains suffused into one large rainbow-like apple. "Hi!" said Ostap on the eighth morning, so hung-over that he was reading the newspaper Dawn of the East. "Listen, you drunken sot, to what clever people are writing in the press! Listen!
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