Alas! such as say this will be wrong; for many a day must pass before the Nozdrevs will have disappeared from our ken.

Everywhere they are to be seen in our midst--the only difference between the new and the old being a difference of garments.

Persons of superficial observation are apt to consider that a man clad in a different coat is quite a different person from what he used to be.
To continue.

The three vehicles bowled up to the steps of Nozdrev's house, and their occupants alighted.

But no preparations whatsoever had been made for the guest's reception, for on some wooden trestles in the centre of the dining-room a couple of peasants were engaged in whitewashing the ceiling and drawling out an endless song as they splashed their stuff about the floor.