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Updated: July 21, 2025
"How do you know that she is a coquette?" asked Foma, sternly, coming closer to the whiskered man. The man measured him with a scornful look, turned aside and moving his thigh, drawled out: "I didn't say coquette." "Martin Nikitich, you mustn't speak that way about a woman who " began Ookhtishchev in a convincing tone, but Foma interrupted him: "Excuse me, just a moment!
“My Polish friends, it is common talk among you that every Muscovite is a rascal: now tell any one who asks, that you have found a Muscovite who was named Nikita Nikitich Rykov, a captain in the army, and who wore eight medals and three crosses—I beg you remember that.
Foma smiled sheepishly and stared in confusion at the whiskered man, Ookhtishchev's interlocutor. That man was stroking his moustache with an air of importance, and deep, heavy, repulsive words fell from his lips on Foma's ears. "Because, you see, there will be one co-cot-te less in town." "Shame, Martin Nikitich!" said Ookhtishchev, reproachfully, knitting his brow.
The advocate passed close to the old woman, and, feeling all eyes directed towards him, his whole bearing seemed to say: "No expressions of deference are required." At last Matthew Nikitich also arrived, and the usher, a thin man, with a long neck and a kind of sideways walk, his nether lip protruding to one side, which made him resemble a turkey, came into the jurymen's room.
One of the members of the court, wearing gold eye-glasses, of medium height, with high shoulders and frowning countenance, entered. "Matvei Nikitich is late again," said the newcomer, with an air of displeasure. "Yes," said the presiding judge, donning his robes. "He is always late." "It is a shame," said the member, and sat down angrily, then lighted a cigarette.
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