Ivan Petrovitch has a loud, deep voice, and never smiles, whereas this man (whoever he may be) is twittering like a sparrow, and smiling all the time." Yet approach and take a good look at the fellow and you will see that is IS Ivan Petrovitch.

"Alack, alack!" will be the only remark you can make.
Let us return to our characters in real life.

We have seen that, on this occasion, Chichikov decided to dispense with ceremony; wherefore, taking up the teapot, he went on as follows: "You have a nice little village here, madam.

How many souls does it contain ?" "A little less than eighty, dear sir.

But the times are hard, and I have lost a great deal through last year's harvest having proved a failure." "But your peasants look fine, strong fellows.