"Efficient" is a word in ENGLISH
Causing effects; producing results; that makes the
effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or
incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an
efficient officer, power.
An efficient cause; a prime mover.
... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run away... and throw me my mask!... Nor any other woman... ever, ever!... Ah, you can understand, my happiness was so great, I cried. And fell at her feet, crying... and I kissed her feet... her little feet... crying. You're crying, too, daroga... and she cried also... the angel cried!...
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