You'd better, when the cold winter weather comes on, make yourself some gaiters out of it, because stockings are not warm.

The Germans invented them in order to make more money." Petrovitch loved, on all occasions, to have a fling at the Germans.

"But it is plain you must have a new cloak." At the word "new," all grew dark before Akakiy Akakievitch's eyes, and everything in the room began to whirl round.

The only thing he saw clearly was the general with the paper face on the lid of Petrovitch's snuff-box.

"A new one ?" said he, as if still in a dream: "why, I have no money for that." "Yes, a new one," said Petrovitch, with barbarous composure.
"Well, if it came to a new one, how would it-- ?" "You mean how much would it cost ?" "Yes." "Well, you would have to lay out a hundred and fifty or more," said Petrovitch, and pursed up his lips significantly.