He is a miserly, inhospitable old fellow who does not like guests." During these words of her husband Madame Kanine dropped her eyes and contracted her shoulders in something resembling a shudder.

Gorokoff and his sister smoked along indifferently.

I very clearly remarked all this as well as the hostile tone of Kanine, the confusion of his wife and the artificial indifference of Gorokoff; and I determined to see the old colonist given such a bad name by Kanine.

In Uliassutai I knew two Bobroffs.

I said to Kanine that I had been asked to hand a letter personally to Bobroff and, after finishing my tea, put on my overcoat and went out.
The house of Bobroff stood in a deep sink in the mountains, surrounded by a high fence over which the low roofs of the houses could be seen.