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He joined company with the Moriscoes who were going forth from other villages, for he knew their language very well, and on the voyage he struck up a friendship with my two uncles who were carrying me with them; for my father, like a wise and far-sighted man, as soon as he heard the first edict for our expulsion, quitted the village and departed in quest of some refuge for us abroad.

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When they had already quitted the table and had all begun smoking, Vronsky's valet came up to him with a letter on a salver.

The year before, he had quitted the diplomatic service, not because of any unpleasantness (he never had unpleasantness with anyone), but had exchanged into the Moscow Court Ministry in order to be able to give his boys the best education.

Smiling, and hardly able to keep back tears of tenderness, Levin kissed his wife and quitted the darkened room.

His soul had almost quitted its mortal envelope, which was strolling at a slow pace along the north aisle committed to his charge.

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