1 How they contrive to be so God only knows.
2 However, only God knows the truth of the matter.
3 Only God can say what Manilov's real character was.
4 God only knows whence that chessman had materialised.
5 What thereafter was done by Selifan and Petrushka God alone knows.
6 "In everything the will of God, madam," said Chichikov with a sigh.
7 Next, his mind passed imperceptibly to other matters, until at last it lost itself God only knows where.
8 Its name is known to God alone, but at least it was to be procured only in the immediate neighbourhood of the frontier.
9 You see, after saying my prayers, I bethought me of telling my fortune by the cards; and God must have sent him as a punishment.
10 Some of the ladies were dressed well and in the fashion, while the remainder were clad in such garments as God usually bestows upon a provincial town.
11 In fact, God only knows what would have happened had not the fates been pleased by a miracle to deliver Chichikov's elegant back and shoulders from the onslaught.
12 So long as you observe these rules you will make progress, and surpass your fellows, even if God shall have denied you brains, and you should fail in your studies.
13 Only God knows and sees all things; wherefore for a mere human being to know what is in the mind of a servant while his master is scolding him is wholly impossible.
14 Nor can any one but God say to what a figure the fortunes of the pair might not eventually have attained, had not an awkward contretemps cut right across their arrangements.
15 "Thank God, I have nothing to complain of," replied Sobakevitch: which was true enough, seeing that a piece of iron would have caught cold and taken to sneezing sooner than would that uncouthly fashioned landowner.
16 Of a surety the scheme was not one which ought to have been confided to a man like Nozdrev, for he was a worthless fellow who might lie about it, and append additions to it, and spread such stories as would give rise to God knows what scandals.
17 Running out with a napkin in one hand and his lanky form clad in a tailcoat, reaching almost to the nape of his neck, he tossed back his locks, and escorted the gentleman upstairs, along a wooden gallery, and so to the bedchamber which God had prepared for the gentleman's reception.
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