1 "Look here, my good man," said Manilov.
2 Indeed, he is a man worthy of the greatest respect.
3 I DO love a chat with a man when he is a good sort.
4 Any one may talk with a decent man when he meets him.
5 Ivan Petrovitch is tall, whereas this man is small and spare.
6 He is a man of the most eminent civility and approachableness.
7 'Twould puzzle a wise man to do so, for in these parts there are so many turnings.
8 After which, with a flourish of the whip, the man broke into a sort of endless, drawling song.
9 Somehow or other he had landed on his feet, and everywhere he figured as an experienced man of the world.
10 And in very civil fashion Manilov did so, even going so far as to address the man in the second person plural.
11 While the flaxen-haired man was clad in a dark-blue coat, the other one was wrapped in a coat of striped pattern.
12 Probably he was a man of grateful heart who wished to repay his employers for the good treatment which he had received.
13 With a man of that kind I am always hail-fellow-well-met, and glad to drink a glass of tea with him, or to eat a biscuit.
14 Somehow, the dark-haired man's voice struck Chichikov as familiar; and as he was taking another look at him the flaxen-haired gentleman entered the room.
15 The flaxen-haired man lost no time in ascending the staircase, while his darker friend remained below to fumble at something in the britchka, talking, as he did so, to the driver of the vehicle which stood hitched behind.
16 Presently, as the britchka was approaching the inn, it was met by a young man in a pair of very short, very tight breeches of white dimity, a quasi-fashionable frockcoat, and a dickey fastened with a pistol-shaped bronze tie-pin.
17 He was a man of under forty, clean-shaven, clad in a smock, and evidently used to a quiet life, seeing that his face was of that puffy fullness, and the skin encircling his slit-like eyes was of that sallow tint, which shows that the owner of those features is well acquainted with a feather bed.
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