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Merely
in
the
contemplation
of
his
features
in
the
mirror
,
as
he
tried
to
communicate
to
them
a
succession
of
varying
expressions
,
was
an
hour
spent
.
First
of
all
he
strove
to
make
his
features
assume
an
air
of
dignity
and
importance
,
and
then
an
air
of
humble
,
but
faintly
satirical
,
respect
,
and
then
an
air
of
respect
guiltless
of
any
alloy
whatsoever
.
Next
,
he
practised
performing
a
series
of
bows
to
his
reflection
,
accompanied
with
certain
murmurs
intended
to
bear
a
resemblance
to
a
French
phrase
(
though
Chichikov
knew
not
a
single
word
of
the
Gallic
tongue
)
.
Lastly
came
the
performing
of
a
series
of
what
I
might
call
"
agreeable
surprises
,
"
in
the
shape
of
twitchings
of
the
brow
and
lips
and
certain
motions
of
the
tongue
.
In
short
,
he
did
all
that
a
man
is
apt
to
do
when
he
is
not
only
alone
,
but
also
certain
that
he
is
handsome
and
that
no
one
is
regarding
him
through
a
chink
.
Finally
he
tapped
himself
lightly
on
the
chin
,
and
said
,
"
Ah
,
good
old
face
!
"
In
the
same
way
,
when
he
started
to
dress
himself
for
the
ceremony
,
the
level
of
his
high
spirits
remained
unimpaired
throughout
the
process
.
That
is
to
say
,
while
adjusting
his
braces
and
tying
his
tie
,
he
shuffled
his
feet
in
what
was
not
exactly
a
dance
,
but
might
be
called
the
entr
'
acte
of
a
dance
:
which
performance
had
the
not
very
serious
result
of
setting
a
wardrobe
a-rattle
,
and
causing
a
brush
to
slide
from
the
table
to
the
floor
.
Later
,
his
entry
into
the
ballroom
produced
an
extraordinary
effect
.
Every
one
present
came
forward
to
meet
him
,
some
with
cards
in
their
hands
,
and
one
man
even
breaking
off
a
conversation
at
the
most
interesting
point
--
namely
,
the
point
that
"
the
Inferior
Land
Court
must
be
made
responsible
for
everything
.
"
Yes
,
in
spite
of
the
responsibility
of
the
Inferior
Land
Court
,
the
speaker
cast
all
thoughts
of
it
to
the
winds
as
he
hurried
to
greet
our
hero
.
From
every
side
resounded
acclamations
of
welcome
,
and
Chichikov
felt
himself
engulfed
in
a
sea
of
embraces
.
Thus
,
scarcely
had
he
extricated
himself
from
the
arms
of
the
President
of
the
Local
Council
when
he
found
himself
just
as
firmly
clasped
in
the
arms
of
the
Chief
of
Police
,
who
,
in
turn
,
surrendered
him
to
the
Inspector
of
the
Medical
Department
,
who
,
in
turn
,
handed
him
over
to
the
Commissioner
of
Taxes
,
who
,
again
,
committed
him
to
the
charge
of
the
Town
Architect
.
Even
the
Governor
,
who
hitherto
had
been
standing
among
his
womenfolk
with
a
box
of
sweets
in
one
hand
and
a
lap-dog
in
the
other
,
now
threw
down
both
sweets
and
lap-dog
(
the
lap-dog
giving
vent
to
a
yelp
as
he
did
so
)
and
added
his
greeting
to
those
of
the
rest
of
the
company
.
Indeed
,
not
a
face
was
there
to
be
seen
on
which
ecstatic
delight
--
or
,
at
all
events
,
the
reflection
of
other
people
's
ecstatic
delight
--
was
not
painted
.
The
same
expression
may
be
discerned
on
the
faces
of
subordinate
officials
when
,
the
newly
arrived
Director
having
made
his
inspection
,
the
said
officials
are
beginning
to
get
over
their
first
sense
of
awe
on
perceiving
that
he
has
found
much
to
commend
,
and
that
he
can
even
go
so
far
as
to
jest
and
utter
a
few
words
of
smiling
approval
.
Thereupon
every
tchinovnik
responds
with
a
smile
of
double
strength
,
and
those
who
(
it
may
be
)
have
not
heard
a
single
word
of
the
Director
's
speech
smile
out
of
sympathy
with
the
rest
,
and
even
the
gendarme
who
is
posted
at
the
distant
door
--
a
man
,
perhaps
,
who
has
never
before
compassed
a
smile
,
but
is
more
accustomed
to
dealing
out
blows
to
the
populace
--
summons
up
a
kind
of
grin
,
even
though
the
grin
resembles
the
grimace
of
a
man
who
is
about
to
sneeze
after
inadvertently
taking
an
over-large
pinch
of
snuff
.
To
all
and
sundry
Chichikov
responded
with
a
bow
,
and
felt
extraordinarily
at
his
ease
as
he
did
so
.
To
right
and
left
did
he
incline
his
head
in
the
sidelong
,
yet
unconstrained
,
manner
that
was
his
wont
and
never
failed
to
charm
the
beholder
.
As
for
the
ladies
,
they
clustered
around
him
in
a
shining
bevy
that
was
redolent
of
every
species
of
perfume
--
of
roses
,
of
spring
violets
,
and
of
mignonette
;
so
much
so
that
instinctively
Chichikov
raised
his
nose
to
snuff
the
air
.
Likewise
the
ladies
'
dresses
displayed
an
endless
profusion
of
taste
and
variety
;
and
though
the
majority
of
their
wearers
evinced
a
tendency
to
embonpoint
,
those
wearers
knew
how
to
call
upon
art
for
the
concealment
of
the
fact
.
Confronting
them
,
Chichikov
thought
to
himself
:
"
Which
of
these
beauties
is
the
writer
of
the
letter
?
"
Then
again
he
snuffed
the
air
.
When
the
ladies
had
,
to
a
certain
extent
,
returned
to
their
seats
,
he
resumed
his
attempts
to
discern
(
from
glances
and
expressions
)
which
of
them
could
possibly
be
the
unknown
authoress
.
Yet
,
though
those
glances
and
expressions
were
too
subtle
,
too
insufficiently
open
,
the
difficulty
in
no
way
diminished
his
high
spirits
.
Easily
and
gracefully
did
he
exchange
agreeable
bandinage
with
one
lady
,
and
then
approach
another
one
with
the
short
,
mincing
steps
usually
affected
by
young-old
dandies
who
are
fluttering
around
the
fair
.
As
he
turned
,
not
without
dexterity
,
to
right
and
left
,
he
kept
one
leg
slightly
dragging
behind
the
other
,
like
a
short
tail
or
comma
.
This
trick
the
ladies
particularly
admired
.
In
short
,
they
not
only
discovered
in
him
a
host
of
recommendations
and
attractions
,
but
also
began
to
see
in
his
face
a
sort
of
grand
,
Mars-like
,
military
expression
--
a
thing
which
,
as
we
know
,
never
fails
to
please
the
feminine
eye
.
Certain
of
the
ladies
even
took
to
bickering
over
him
,
and
,
on
perceiving
that
he
spent
most
of
his
time
standing
near
the
door
,
some
of
their
number
hastened
to
occupy
chairs
nearer
to
his
post
of
vantage
.
In
fact
,
when
a
certain
dame
chanced
to
have
the
good
fortune
to
anticipate
a
hated
rival
in
the
race
there
very
nearly
ensued
a
most
lamentable
scene
--
which
,
to
many
of
those
who
had
been
desirous
of
doing
exactly
the
same
thing
,
seemed
a
peculiarly
horrible
instance
of
brazen-faced
audacity
.
So
deeply
did
Chichikov
become
plunged
in
conversation
with
his
fair
pursuers
--
or
rather
,
so
deeply
did
those
fair
pursuers
enmesh
him
in
the
toils
of
small
talk
(
which
they
accomplished
through
the
expedient
of
asking
him
endless
subtle
riddles
which
brought
the
sweat
to
his
brow
in
his
attempts
to
guess
them
)
--
that
he
forgot
the
claims
of
courtesy
which
required
him
first
of
all
to
greet
his
hostess
.
In
fact
,
he
remembered
those
claims
only
on
hearing
the
Governor
's
wife
herself
addressing
him
.
She
had
been
standing
before
him
for
several
minutes
,
and
now
greeted
him
with
suave
expressement
and
the
words
,
"
So
HERE
you
are
,
Paul
Ivanovitch
!
"
But
what
she
said
next
I
am
not
in
a
position
to
report
,
for
she
spoke
in
the
ultra-refined
tone
and
vein
wherein
ladies
and
gentlemen
customarily
express
themselves
in
high-class
novels
which
have
been
written
by
experts
more
qualified
than
I
am
to
describe
salons
,
and
able
to
boast
of
some
acquaintance
with
good
society
.
In
effect
,
what
the
Governor
's
wife
said
was
that
she
hoped
--
she
greatly
hoped
--
that
Monsieur
Chichikov
's
heart
still
contained
a
corner
--
even
the
smallest
possible
corner
--
for
those
whom
he
had
so
cruelly
forgotten
.
Upon
that
Chichikov
turned
to
her
,
and
was
on
the
point
of
returning
a
reply
at
least
no
worse
than
that
which
would
have
been
returned
,
under
similar
circumstances
,
by
the
hero
of
a
fashionable
novelette
,
when
he
stopped
short
,
as
though
thunderstruck
.
Before
him
there
was
standing
not
only
Madame
,
but
also
a
young
girl
whom
she
was
holding
by
the
hand
.
The
golden
hair
,
the
fine-drawn
,
delicate
contours
,
the
face
with
its
bewitching
oval
--
a
face
which
might
have
served
as
a
model
for
the
countenance
of
the
Madonna
,
since
it
was
of
a
type
rarely
to
be
met
with
in
Russia
,
where
nearly
everything
,
from
plains
to
human
feet
,
is
,
rather
,
on
the
gigantic
scale
;
these
features
,
I
say
,
were
those
of
the
identical
maiden
whom
Chichikov
had
encountered
on
the
road
when
he
had
been
fleeing
from
Nozdrev
's
.
His
emotion
was
such
that
he
could
not
formulate
a
single
intelligible
syllable
;
he
could
merely
murmur
the
devil
only
knows
what
,
though
certainly
nothing
of
the
kind
which
would
have
risen
to
the
lips
of
the
hero
of
a
fashionable
novel
.
"
I
think
that
you
have
not
met
my
daughter
before
?
"
said
Madame
.
"
She
is
just
fresh
from
school
.
"
He
replied
that
he
HAD
had
the
happiness
of
meeting
Mademoiselle
before
,
and
under
rather
unexpected
circumstances
;
but
on
his
trying
to
say
something
further
his
tongue
completely
failed
him
.
The
Governor
's
wife
added
a
word
or
two
,
and
then
carried
off
her
daughter
to
speak
to
some
of
the
other
guests
.
