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Updated: May 26, 2025
When he talks to them, he usually looks sideways at them, his cheek pressed hard against his stiff white collar, and suddenly he turns and silently fixes them with a clear stony stare, while he moves the whole skin of his head under his hair; he even has a way of his own in pronouncing many words; he never says, for instance: 'Thank you, Pavel Vasilyitch, or 'This way, if you please, Mihalo Ivanitch, but always 'Fanks, Pa'l 'Asilitch, or ''Is wy, please, Mil' 'Vanitch. With persons of the lower grades of society, his behaviour is still more quaint; he never looks at them at all, and before making known his desires to them, or giving an order, he repeats several times in succession, with a puzzled, far-away air: 'What's your name?... what, what's your name? with extraordinary sharp emphasis on the first word, which gives the phrase a rather close resemblance to the call of a quail.
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