What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in — Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in — Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in — Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in — Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in — Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
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What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in fact, can be done!” And—bang!

— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
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