1 Upon this friend Kopeikin felt delighted.
2 Nevertheless he seemed delighted to see his visitors.
3 "You do not know him fully," replied the delighted Manilov.
4 In short, it was to be the species of compilation in which the man of the day so much delights.
5 And, indeed, a more delightful retreat in which to recuperate could not possibly have been found.
6 But come you to my house for the purpose of taking pot luck, and I shall be delighted to see you.
7 For his part, Chichikov was only too delighted to reside with a person so quiet and agreeable as his host.
8 Upon which the delighted suitor would return home in raptures, thinking: "Here, at long last, is the sort of man so badly needed."
9 and Manilov and the rest; well, then we may rest assured that every reader would have been delighted with him, and have voted him a most interesting person.
10 Next, his delight led him gracefully to execute a hop in ballet fashion, so that the wardrobe trembled and a bottle of eau-de-Cologne came crashing to the floor.
11 In proportion as the britchka drew nearer and nearer to the verandah, the host's eyes assumed a more and more delighted expression, and his smile a broader and broader sweep.
12 Such a swift recovery of his treasures delighted him beyond expression, and, gathering new hope, he began once more to dream of such allurements as theatre-going and the ballet girl after whom he had for some time past been dangling.
13 With these sentiments Chichikov expressed entire agreement: adding that nothing could be more delightful than to lead a solitary life in which there should be comprised only the sweet contemplation of nature and the intermittent perusal of a book.
14 From time to time the boat would pass under ropes, stretched across for purposes of fishing, and at each turn of the rippling current new vistas unfolded themselves as tier upon tier of woodland delighted the eye with a diversity of timber and foliage.
15 For it is not nearly so necessary that Chichikov should figure before the reader as though his form and person were actually present to the eye as that, on concluding a perusal of this work, the reader should be able to return, unharrowed in soul, to that cult of the card-table which is the solace and delight of all good Russians.