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Max
also: Макс
Lily's brother, who interrupts her proposal scene to warn her, in solemnly fraternal terms, that her suitor is a denouncer who will inform on any indiscreet word.
Reading notes
- A Sign of the Times §9 A scoundrel of the first water
"Большой руки подлец", literally "a scoundrel of the big hand/kind" — an idiom for someone thoroughly, emphatically bad; here it identifies the suitor as an informer (see "He'll inform on you").