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Я не терпел шума, сам никогда не шумел и являл собой образец молчаливости и мягкой грусти stresses
lit.	I disliked noise of any sort, never indulged in it myself, was a model of taciturnity and gently melancholy, and altogether an embryonic hero for a Bulwer-Lytton novel. (T. Beecham)