1 They are known all over town as liars.
2 It is my duty to assist strangers in town.
3 In other towns they didn't show me a thing.
4 Yesterday there was a fight outside the town.
5 It makes no difference that our town is so remote.
6 I like the way you show strangers everything in your town.
7 And yet you'll admit that one can live happily in a little town.
8 Fevronya Petrova Poshliopkina, the wife of a locksmith, a burgess of this town.
9 In other towns, I venture to observe, the authorities and officials look out for themselves more.
10 We'd have had enough and more than enough to pay for the fare, but no he must exhibit himself in every town.
11 Afterwards, if you should like to visit our town jails and prisons, you will see how our criminals are kept.
12 It's my duty as chief magistrate of this town to see that visitors and persons of rank should suffer no inconveniences.
13 There are so many matters he has to give his mind to just in connection with keeping the town clean and repairs and alterations.
14 You, gentlemen, had better see to your end of things while I go unofficially, by myself, or with Dobchinsky here, as though for a walk, to see that the visitors that come to town are properly accommodated.
15 I beg your Highness or your Excellency most worshipfully, when you get back to St. Petersburg, please tell all the high personages there, the senators and the admirals, that Piotr Ivanovich Bobchinsky lives in this town.
16 On the way here an infantry captain did me out of my last penny, so that the innkeeper here wanted to send me to jail, when suddenly, thanks to my St. Petersburg appearance and dress, the whole town took me for a governor-general.