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not understand the meaning of the word. Everybody 

 is procrastinating and indifferent ; everything which 

 can be postponed is postponed, as also many things 

 that can't. The famous putting-off expression pecuhar 

 to Hall Caine's island, " Traa dy liooar ! " — Time 

 enough — is altogether outclassed by its Russian 

 counterpart " Zaftra ! " — To-morrow. 



