Man is a simple creature; if he dies, why then, he dies; if he gets well, why then, he gets well; and moreover, it would have been difficult for Christian Ivan'itch to make them understand him; he doesn't know one word of Russian.
CHIEF .-- I should also advise you, Ammos Feodor'itch, to turn your attention to court affairs.

In the anteroom, where the clients usually assemble, your janitor has got a lot of geese and goslings, which waddle about under foot.

Of course it is praiseworthy to be thrifty in domestic affairs, and why should not the janitor be so, too?
Only, you know, it is not proper in that place.

I intended to mention it to you before, but always forgot it.
JUDGE .-- I'll order them to be taken to the kitchen this very day.

Will you dine with me?
CHIEF .-- And moreover, it is not well that all sorts of stuff should be put to dry in the court-room, and that over the very desk with the documents, there should be a hunting-whip....
Yes, and strange to say, there is no man who has not his faults.