Our friend--your husband--has many of the English idiosyncrasies.

He has all the narrow-minded notions of honor which obtain in that country.

Added to this, I suspect him of possessing a truly Slavonic fire which he keeps under.

'A smouldering fire--' You know, madame, our French proverb.

He is not the man to take a rational and broad-minded view of your little transaction with M.Vassili; more especially, perhaps, as it banished his friend Stepan Lanovitch--the owner of this house, by the way.