When he is gone from Moscow and then St. Petersburg, there was always this tendency to have these sort of cabales to get together and sort of plot.

当他离开莫斯科和圣彼得堡外出时,就会有人秘密集会,结党营私,秘谋造反

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He said he slept well in these wooden houses and that probably is because of his very unhappy childhood listening to relatives shouting at each other and plotting to kill each other in the big house.

他说在那些木屋里睡的很好,这可能是缘于他那并不愉快的童年,在这冰冷的大房子里,亲戚们的高声谩骂,彼此的秘谋暗杀,给他的童年留下了阴影

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