Part 6 (1/2)

One cannot resist evil, but one can resist good.

He flatters the authorities like a priest.

Instead of sheets--dirty tablecloths.

A Jewish surname: Perchik (little pepper).

A man in conversation: ”And all the rest of it.”

A rich man, usually insolent, his conceit enormous, but bears his riches like a cross. If the ladies and generals did not dispense charity on his account, if it were not for the poor students and the beggars, he would feel the anguish of loneliness. If the beggars struck and agreed not to beg from him, he would go to them himself.

The husband invites his friends to his country-house in the Crimea, and afterwards his wife, without her husband's knowledge, brings them the bill and is paid for board and lodging.

Potapov becomes attached to the brother, and this is the beginning of his falling in love with the sister. Divorces his wife. Afterwards the son sends him plans for a rabbit-hutch.

”I have sown clover and oats.”'

”No good; you had much better sow lucerne.”

”I have begun to keep a pig.”

”No good. It does not pay. You had better go in for mares.”

A girl, a devoted friend, out of the best of motives, went about with a subscription list for X., who was not in want.

Why are the dogs of Constantinople so often described?

Disease: ”He has got hydropathy.”