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However, this accident had no unpleasant effect upon the esteem in which he had been held up till then. Tchertokoutski always wore a coat of a military cut, spurs and moustache, in order not to have it supposed that he had served in the infantry, a branch of the service upon which he lavished the most contemptuous expressions.
He had already taken his hat, but a strange fatality caused him to remain for some time at the general's. The card tables had been set out, and all the company, separating into groups of four, scattered itself about the room. Lights were brought in. Tchertokoutski did not know whether he ought to sit down to whist.
"But haven't I ordered a dinner?" "A dinner! You got home at four o'clock in the morning and you did not answer a single word to all my questions. I did not wake you, since you had so little sleep." Tchertokoutski, his eyes staring out of his head, remained motionless for some moments as though a thunderbolt had struck him. All at once he jumped out of bed in his shirt.
At these words the general took a long pull at his pipe. "She is not quite recovered yet; there is not a decent stable in this cursed little place. But she is not bad looking " puff puff, the general here let out the smoke which he had kept in his mouth till then "the little mare." "It is long since your excellency " puff puff puff "condescended to buy her?" asked Tchertokoutski.
His bearing assumed a certain ease, and his voice expressed his great satisfaction. "Your excellency will make the acquaintance of the mistress of the house." "That will be most agreeable to me," said the general, twirling his moustache. Tchertokoutski was firmly resolved to return home at once in order to make all necessary preparations in good time.
A somewhat brisk discussion on cavalry drill had arisen in another corner, and Tchertokoutski, who had twice already played a knave for a king, mingled in the conversation by calling out from his place: "In what year?" or "What regiment?" without noticing that very often his question had no application whatever. At length, a few minutes before supper, play came to an end.
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