On reaching the tavern, Chichikov called a halt.

His reasons for this were twofold--namely, that he wanted to rest the horses, and that he himself desired some refreshment.

In this connection the author feels bound to confess that the appetite and the capacity of such men are greatly to be envied.

Of those well-to-do folk of St.Petersburg and Moscow who spend their time in considering what they shall eat on the morrow, and in composing a dinner for the day following, and who never sit down to a meal without first of all injecting a pill and then swallowing oysters and crabs and a quantity of other monsters, while eternally departing for Karlsbad or the Caucasus, the author has but a small opinion.

Yes, THEY are not the persons to inspire envy.