Petersburg

ces, and ministers’ apartments he kept appearing—haggard, lean; his powerful bass voice thundered out persuasive

On our own account we will add: Apollon Apollonovich was not in the least discomposed by the contemplation of his own ears, completely green, magnified to immensity, on the bloody background of a burning Russia.

one were to compare the emaciated, utterly unimpressive figure of my venerable

In the lacquered house the storms of life took their course quietly; nevertheless the storms of life here took their course calamitously: they did not thunder with events; they did not shine a cleansing light into the inhabitants’ hearts with arrows of lightning; but from a hoarse throat they wrung the air in a torrent of poisonous fluids; and in the consciousness of the inhabitants cerebral games swirled round, like dense gases in hermetically sealed jars.

Nevskii Prospect forms a straight line (between ourselves), because it is a European Prospect; and every European Prospect is not merely a Prospect, but (as I have already said) a European Prospect, because … well … yes …