With us, however, things are different.

In Russian society there exist clever folk who can speak in one manner to a landowner possessed of two hundred peasant souls, and in another to a landowner possessed of three hundred, and in another to a landowner possessed of five hundred.

In short, up to the number of a million souls the Russian will have ready for each landowner a suitable mode of address.

For example, suppose that somewhere there exists a government office, and that in that office there exists a director.

I would beg of you to contemplate him as he sits among his myrmidons.