The Cloak

Holy Russia all is thus contaminated with the love of imitation; every man imitates and copies his superior.

In Holy Russia all is thus contaminated with the love of imitation; every man imitates and copies his superior.

hey christened the child, whereat he wept and made a grimace, as though he foresaw that he was to be a titular councillor.

They carried Akakiy Akakievitch out and buried him.

And St. Petersburg was left without Akakiy Akakievitch, as though he had never lived there.

must be known that Akakiy Akakievitch expressed himself chiefly by prepositions, adverbs, and scraps of phrases which had no meaning whatever.

being disappeared who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, and who never even attracted to himself the attentio

He entered the square, not without an involuntary sensation of fear, as though his heart warned him of some evil. He glanced back and on both sides, it was like a sea about him. "No, it is better not to look," he thought, and went on, closing his eyes. When he opened them, to see whether he was near the end of the square, he suddenly beheld, standing just before his very nose, some bearded individuals of precisely what sort he could not make out. All grew dark before his eyes, and his heart throbbed.

their thin little cloaks, five or six streets, and then warming their feet in the porter's room, and so thawing all their talents and qualifications for official service, which had become frozen on the way.

The porter not only did not rise from his seat when he passed, but never even glanced at him, any more than if a fly had flown through the reception-room.

Akakiy Akakievitch expressed himself chiefly by prepositions, adverbs, and scraps of phrases which had no meaning whatever.