1 But my wife will be furious with me.
2 At that moment his wife sailed into the room.
3 Listen to what Father Cyril's wife had to tell me.
4 "Allow me to present to you my wife," continued Manilov.
5 "This is my wife, Theodulia Ivanovna," said Sobakevitch.
6 At the same time, Manilov and his wife were quite satisfied with each other.
7 My wife is expecting me at home, and I must go and tell her all about the fair.
8 At length, with these perfectings, the affair reached the ears of the Governor's wife herself.
9 In fact, he remembered those claims only on hearing the Governor's wife herself addressing him.
10 Permissibly we may suppose that his wife succeeded in gleaning from him few details of the fair.
11 The Governor's wife added a word or two, and then carried off her daughter to speak to some of the other guests.
12 My late wife made the stuff," went on the old man, "but that rascal of a housekeeper went and threw away a lot of it, and never even replaced the stopper.
13 Indeed, his rudeness soon reached the pitch of his walking away altogether, in order that he might go and reconnoitre wither the Governor's wife and daughter had retreated.
14 Lastly, he received from the company a pressing, as well as an unanimous, invitation to extend his stay in town for at least another fortnight, and, in the meanwhile, to allow a wife to be found for him.
15 You were apprenticed to a German, who fed you and your fellows at a common table, thrashed you with a strap, kept you indoors whenever you had made a mistake, and spoke of you in uncomplimentary terms to his wife and friends.
16 Nor had his marriage in any way changed him, and the less so since his wife had soon departed to another world, and left behind her two children, whom he did not want, and who were therefore placed in the charge of a good-looking nursemaid.
17 Having done their business with the Governor's wife, the ladies' party descended upon the male section, with a view to influencing it to their own side by asserting that the dead souls were an invention used solely for the purpose of diverting suspicion and successfully affecting the abduction.
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