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Updated: May 22, 2025
It's interesting." "Yes, it's interesting for you. But its interest for me is quite different. You look at those little old men now," he said, pointing to a club member with bent back and projecting lip, shuffling towards them in his soft boots, "and imagine that they were shlupiks like that from their birth up." "How shlupiks?" "I see you don't know that name. That's our club designation.
"No, I don't know him." "You don't say so! Well, Prince Tchetchensky is a well-known figure. No matter, though. He's always playing billiards here. Only three years ago he was not a shlupik and kept up his spirits and even used to call other people shlupiks. But one day he turns up, and our porter...you know Vassily? Why, that fat one; he's famous for his bon mots.
And so Prince Tchetchensky asks him, 'Come, Vassily, who's here? Any shlupiks here yet? And he says, 'You're the third. Yes, my dear boy, that he did!"
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