1 The reason why he had entered thus shod was that Plushkin only kept one pair of boots for the whole of his domestic staff.
2 With some of them, however, Chichikov was altogether unacquainted, since certain substitutes and supernumeraries had to be pressed into the service from among the ranks of the subordinate staff.
3 Accordingly he raised a turmoil which sent the staff flying.
4 Herewith I will hand over the conduct of your affair to a man who is worth all the rest of the staff put together, and has had a university education.
5 He was educated at home till he was fourteen, surrounded by cheap tutors, free-and-easy but toadying adjutants, and all the usual regimental and staff set.
6 He received, however, no appointment to Kutuzov's staff despite all Anna Mikhaylovna's endeavors and entreaties.
7 Beside him was his comrade Nesvitski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes.
8 One can at least be of use on the staff.
9 On Kutuzov's staff, among his fellow officers and in the army generally, Prince Andrew had, as he had had in Petersburg society, two quite opposite reputations.
10 Prince Andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest lay in the general progress of the war.
11 The staff captain, Kirsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission.
12 "You just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen," interrupted the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache.
13 He answered the staff captain's question by a disapproving shake of his head.
14 "I did not expect this of you," said the staff captain seriously and severely.
15 And the staff captain rose and turned away from Rostov.