Yet which one of you, filled with Christian humility, not aloud, but in silence, when you are all alone, during moments of solitary communion with your own self, will let sink deep into the inward recesses of your own soul this onerous question: “Come, now, isn’t there a bit of Chichikov in me, too?” But there isn’t much likelihood of such a thing ever happening! And yet, if at this point someone or other were to pass by you, even actually a friend of yours, a fellow whose rank is neither too high nor too low, you would that very moment nudge the arm of the man next to you and say, all but
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