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As the orator's wild and frenzied eye travelled round the room it lighted on a form near the door a man standing a head and shoulders above any one in the room, a man enveloped in an old brown coat, with a woollen shawl round his throat, hiding half his face. "Who is that?" cried the orator, with an unsteady, pointing finger. "He is no moujik. Is that a tchinovnik, little fathers?
Put beauty aside, and look only to what is NECESSARY." "Yes, but to me it would always be irksome to have to wait. All the time that I was doing so I should be hungering to see in front of the me the sort of prospect which I prefer." "Come, come! Are you a man of twenty-five you who have served as a tchinovnik in St. Petersburg? Have patience, have patience. For six years work, and work hard.
Besides this, they belonged to that class which was for the moment under the anathema of public opinion, and they had drawn direct personal advantage from the system which was now recognised as the chief cause of the national disasters. For a time the name of tchinovnik became a term of reproach and derision, and the position of those who bore it was comically painful.
My friend explained to me that I had not at all misunderstood what had been related, but that my abrupt question and the sight of my note-book had suddenly aroused the peasants' suspicions. "They evidently suspected," he continued, "that you were a tchinovnik, and that you wished to use to their detriment the knowledge you had acquired. They thought it safer, therefore, at once to deny it all.
Hence there comes flocking from every side a cloud of fortune hunters. What else could one expect? Such is human nature." "Yes, but why should such persons go and commit fraud?" asked the Prince irritably. "I feel as though not a single honest tchinovnik were available as though every one of them were a rogue." "Your Highness, which of us is altogether beyond reproach?
If, on the other hand, you question a man as friend might question friend, the result will be that straightway he will tell you everything, nor ask for mitigation of his penalty, nor bear you the least malice, in that he will understand that it is not you who have punished him, but the law." The Prince relapsed into thought; until presently there entered a young tchinovnik.
In that respect he has followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, who had something of the frondeur spirit, and preferred the position of a grand seigneur and a country gentleman to that of a tchinovnik and a courtier.
Moreover, since a woman's real business in life is the same as that of the hen, to rear young, what can it matter if she DOES cackle a few falsehoods, provided that she be neither a priest nor a mayor nor a tchinovnik, and does not possess any authority, and cannot establish laws? For the really important point is that the law itself should not lie, but ever uphold truth pure and simple.
I dare not set foot on the staircase here, for if I do so I am stared at, and pointed at, and spoken about in the most horrible manner. Yes, it is even said of me that I am "united to a drunkard." What a thing to hear! And whenever you are brought home drunk folk say, "They are carrying in that tchinovnik." THAT is not the proper way to make me help you.
A Russian Petit Maitre His House and Surroundings Abortive Attempts to Improve Agriculture and the Condition of the Serfs A Comparison A "Liberal" Tchinovnik His Idea of Progress A Justice of the Peace His Opinion of Russian Literature, Tchinovniks, and Petits Maitres His Supposed and Real Character An Extreme Radical Disorders in the Universities Administrative Procedure Russia's Capacity for Accomplishing Political and Social Evolutions A Court Dignitary in his Country House.
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