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The heirs were dressed fantastically; the general in a dressing-gown with gold embroideries and tassels; Sergius wore a black hooded coat; Lina a warm hare-skin jacket, and Katerina, the eldest the moustached guardian a man's thick overcoat, a petticoat and felt shoes. On all were jewels rings, ear-rings, bracelets and necklaces.
Inside his waistcoat he wore a hare-skin, and his heart began to give rapid thumps against it. He knew that he was going into bodily peril worse than any frost or snow. For a long month he had not even seen his Insie, and his hot young heart had never before been treated so contemptuously. He had been allowed to show himself in the gill at his regular interval, a fortnight ago.
"Oh, Lord!" said the old man, moaning "a touloup of hare-skin! Quite new, to give it to a drunkard in rags." It was brought, however, and the vagabond began to get into it. It was rather tight for me, and was much too small for him. He put it on, nevertheless, but with great difficulty, bursting all the seams. Saveliitch uttered something like a smothered howl, when he heard the threads crack.
In the morning, to the sorrow of Savélütch, I insisted on giving our guide, who was but thinly clad, one of my cloaks a hare-skin touloup. "Thanks, your excellency," said the vagrant, "and may heaven reward you. As long as I live I shall never forget your kindness."
He puts on wash-leather socks over his stockings, and India-rubber shoes above his boots, and wears under his waistcoat a cuirass of hare-skin. Besides these precautions, he winds a thick shawl round his throat, and blocks up his mouth with a large silk handkerchief.
The hare-skin heats the chest too much, and thereby promotes a violent perspiration; which, by his going into the cold air, may become suddenly checked, and may thus produce mischief. If the chest be delicate, there is nothing like flannel to ward off colds. After an attack of Rheumatic Fever, what extra clothing do you advise?
The drivers, in grey Cossack coats, gaberdines, and white hare-skin coats, sheepskin hats and caps of various patterns, and with pipes in their hands, drove the unharnessed horses through the yard. What a reception the chief of police gave!
It was useless to argue with him; my money, according to my promise, was entirely at his discretion. But it was very unpleasant not to be able to reward a man who had extricated me from danger, perhaps death. "Well," said I, coolly, "if you will not give him half a rouble, give one of my coats he is too thinly clad; give him the hare-skin touloup." "Have mercy on me!
"What, my dear boy, have you forgotten the drunkard who cheated you out of the touloup the day of the snow-drift a hare-skin touloup? the rascal burst all the seams putting it on." My eyes were opened. The resemblance between the guide and Pougatcheff was striking. I now understood the pardon accorded me. I recalled with gratitude the lucky incident.
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