I had two." "That's a pity.

I would have had grandchildren." "May I smoke ?" asked Taras.
"Go ahead.

Just look at him, you're smoking cigars." "Don't you like them ?" "I?
Come on, it's all the same to me.

I say that it looks rather aristocratic to smoke cigars." "And why should we consider ourselves lower than the aristocrats ?" said Taras, laughing.
"Do, I consider ourselves lower ?" exclaimed the old man.

"I merely said it because it looked ridiculous to me, such a sedate old fellow, with beard trimmed in foreign fashion, cigar in his mouth.