Dead Souls - Gogol Nikolai Vasilievich.pdf - Cove Systems

consort, but upon whom persons of the grade
of full General [8] would probably bestow one
of those glances proper to a man who is
cringing at their august feet. Worse still, such
persons of the grade of General are likely to
treat Chichikov with studied negligence--and
to an author studied negligence spells death.
However, in spite of the distressfulness of the
foregoing possibilities, it is time that I returned
to my hero. After issuing, overnight, the
necessary orders, he awoke early, washed
himself, rubbed himself from head to foot with
a wet sponge (a performance executed only
on Sundays--and the day in question happened
to be a Sunday), shaved his face with such care
that his cheeks issued of absolutely satin-like
smoothness and polish, donned first his
bilberry-coloured, spotted frockcoat, and then
his bearskin overcoat, descended the
staircase (attended, throughout, by the waiter)
and entered his britchka. With a loud rattle the
vehicle left the inn-yard, and issued into the
street. A passing priest doffed his cap, and a