Not a man of the lot is there but would sell Christ.

Yet stay: ONE decent fellow there is--the Public Prosecutor; though even HE, if the truth be told, is little better than a pig." After these eulogia Chichikov saw that it would be useless to continue running through the list of officials--more especially since suddenly he had remembered that Sobakevitch was not at any time given to commending his fellow man.
"Let us go to luncheon, my dear," put in Theodulia Ivanovna to her spouse.
"Yes; pray come to table," said Sobakevitch to his guest; whereupon they consumed the customary glass of vodka (accompanied by sundry snacks of salted cucumber and other dainties) with which Russians, both in town and country, preface a meal.

Then they filed into the dining-room in the wake of the hostess, who sailed on ahead like a goose swimming across a pond.

The small dining-table was found to be laid for four persons--the fourth place being occupied by a lady or a young girl (it would have been difficult to say which exactly) who might have been either a relative, the housekeeper, or a casual visitor.

Certain persons in the world exist, not as personalities in themselves, but as spots or specks on the personalities of others.