"THE OVERCOAT" "Well, then." "What name will he have?" "Moggiy..." "Zosiy." "Khozdozak." "What for a choice you have." "Name him Moggiy if you want, name him Zossiy if you want.?" "What a names!" "Well, turn another page." "Triphiliy." "Dulla." "Varakhisiy." "What names!" "I, to be honest, have never heard of such." "If it were Varadat or Varukh, but here" " Triphiliy..." "Let him be named after his father:" "Father was Akakiy, let the son be Akakiy." "Let it be:" "Akakiy Akakyevich." "Waking up, I thank you Holy Trinity, many [men] for your blessings..." "Akakiy Akakyevich!" "It's time for you to go to work." "?" "That way... one can be late." "Clerk came by twice yesterday." "He has to go to work, but you haven't gotten up yet!" "Petrovich, what are you..." "My bad, my bad, I'm in underwear." "I have to go to work..." "It's time to pay the rent." "But please!" "I've already prepared [the money]." "Here you go." "Good morning, Avdotya Semenovna." "I must go to work..." "Petrovich!" "Petrovich, I must go to work to be on time." "Here you go, sir." "I could be late because of you." "?" "but I mended it." "These patches are not the same colour." "Everything was that colour." "You have come?" "You know, Petrovich didn't bring me trousers on time and now I could be late for work." "Good morning." "Akakiy Akakyevich, how does your landlady do without this cover [rag] while you're in office?" "You'd better hang ot yourself otherwise it'll fall apart and you'll be blaming me then." "I was almost too late." "Paperwork." "To make a fair copy." "To make a fair copy." "To make a fair copy." "To make a fair copy." "To make a fair copy." "To make a fair copy." "Mister Bashmachkin!" "There's a job for you." "Prepare a submission to province court after this petition." "Very simple." "You have to change the title." "In first three lines" ""he demands" must be written instead of "i demand"." "The rest stays the same, letter to letter, as the paragraphs are written." "I demand..." "He demands?" "He demands!" "He!" "I demand, he demands..." "Have you written it?" "I can't." "I'm old, head doesn't work." "Better give me something to make a fair copy." "I'm used to it." "Well, if your new job is beyond your liking..." "let it be." "I offered it to you so that you could renew your overcoat sooner, it's cold [outside]." "God save should it happen that you just fell down..." "How much is left until your retirement?" "Year and a half." "Keep on working." "Gentlemen!" "Gentlemen, here!" "Mister Bashmachkin, it's snowing." "It's snowing, mister Bashmachkin." "Let me be." "Why are you maltreating me?" "Let me through." "Let through..." "Venerable sir..." "Go!" "Venerable sir..." "I have this..." "My bad." "Here, just in one spot, and there's on shoulder a little hole." "Cloth is strong." "It's just so dusty it looks old, but it is new." "When you're..." "Totally bad wardrobe." "It's been mended two times already." "It can't be done any more." "Why can't it be done, Petrovich?" "Put a patch where it is needed." "You do have some patches..." "But to go to the boss...one can stay without job then." "Threads have nothing to hold on." "See how they're creeping." "Better make?" "out of it." "But overcoat must be sewn new." "New?" "What are you saying, Petrovich, God forgive?" "Petrovich, if I really order new one how much will it cost?" "About three times half a hundred." "That much?" "That much." "If to make marten collar and hood with silk lining it can amount up to two hudred." "What are you babbling one-eyed devil!" "Aren't you sober yet?" "Why are you bewildering the man?" "Marten!" "Have you ever seen marten?" "Two hundred rubles!" "Have you ever held that much in your hands?" "Keep quiet, don't intervene." "I fight with you, drunkard, twenty years!" "Petrovich, perhaps, if..." "Don't listen to him!" "He's just babbling nonsense." "Not nonsense!" "Let's count materials." "How much cloth will it take?" "Well...about nine arshin." "Nine arshin?" "On him?" "Seven arshin is too much!" "But hood!" "That's hood included." "And collar from cat-skin." "It can always be assumed as marten from afar." "There are good cats on sale, I saw them." "It would be good from cat...or beaver-skin..." "Avdotya Semyonovna!" "Avdotya Semyonovna!" "Did you heat the stove again today, Avdotya Semyonovna?" "Is that bad?" "It's too expensive for me to heat it every day." "It's winter." "I always heat it every day during winter." "But you heat it every third day..." "And soup can be made without meat." "How come - every third day?" "?" "I just ask it temporarily - every third day." "I'm a widow, unprotected...every third day..." "Avdotya Semyonovna," "I didn't mean that." "That's temporarily..." "Avdotya Semyonovna..." "If my late husband was alive!" "What am I doing!" "Have you really come to order coffin for Avdotya Semyonovna?" "No, no, not that." "I want to stick this paper into your window... so that it could be seen from the street." "Skilled clerk undertakes fair copying.?" "house, second door, fourth floor." "Ask for Bashmackin." "Clerk Bashmackin undertakes fair copying..." "That's to me!" "Hot pies." "Hot, hot pies!" "I came by earlier after laundry but you weren't at home." "So" "I thought I'll take it now, and it'll be ready in the morning." "I thank you, but I got everything clean...excuse me." "Who's there!" "That's to me!" "That's to me!" "I came after advertisment." "I have a project here: reorganization of society." "It just needs to be fair copied." "Here..." "No, here." "Why are you looking at walls?" "I have never had cockroaches here." "No, I'm just looking...quill is somehow going different." "Perhaps, my table is shaking." "You write by this table for twenty four years and it has never been shaking." "During these twenty years spreaders may have dried, settled down...perhaps, something else." "What spreaders?" "You'd better go to sleep." "I'm going to sleep now." "To sleep..." "little bit..." "like this." "What was that?" "Reorganization of society..." "Careful, careful!" "Go on!" "Whom should I ask?" "What?" "I was ordered a job." "It's done now." "Whom are you looking for?" "Fair copying...to get a wage." "A wage?" ""Reorganization of society"." "Twelve and a half." "?" "you won't get a single kopeck from him." "How come?" "But I...a wage..." "What are you doing there?" "We'll burn to death!" "Avdotya Semyonovna, I wanted to tell you not to make me chinese tee anymore." "Make me this one instead." "This one?" "Nobody drinks that!" "He begins to economize!" "If you have no money, go to a pawnbroker!" "I'll get premium wage on Christmas and then I'll immediately come to you with interest." "Your reasoning is strange, dear sir." "I can give you receipt." "That way everybody from the street can come asking for money..." "I'm telling you - bring a pawn." "I can kiss sacred icon!" "[He] doesn't give [loan]?" "I have no pawn." "Every man has his last pawn." "What is it?" "Skeleton." "What?" "Skeleton." "?" "Academy buys them:" "twenty five rubles a piece." "Exactly what I need!" "You see." "Sell it and you'll have the money." "Where can I get a skeleton?" "Sell your own." "Your own." "How do you do, Akakiy Akakyevich!" "How do you do!" "Are you examining overcoats?" "I've heard." "Congratulations." "With what?" "You have been awarded a premium wage." "And amount is...fair." "Congratulations." "No...for me...what..." "What are you doing?" "Calm down!" "...suddenly completely unexpected premium wage..." "And amount...exactly precise..." "Two arshins." "Nowadays they're wearing them shorter." "When weared out, it'll become much longer!" "Don't mess in!" "You know only one - wear out!" "My bad." "I wanted to ask what time is it." "14:15." "Ready?" "Thanks." "You can go." "Concerning..." "I have ordered it." "What have you ordered?" "Overcoat." "As you told me." "And tailor is good... very good tailor...oh, here you go." "I wanted to humbly ask you..." "Huble request." "I have to try it on today." "I'd..." "leave...earlier..." "Go, go, if you have to try it on." "Try it on!" "So it will be." "We'll take here...hood on the top" "My bad." "It's nothing." "Walk some steps." "Go, go, Akakiy Akakyevich!" "Go, see whether it's not clogging in legs." "If to meet you on the street now, one wouldn't recognize you." "Exactly like a general!" "See, your exact portrait." "Petrovich, maybe I...part of money now, part on sunday and you..." "Pardon me, I'll finish it with God's help and then..." "Now I have new one." "Is Akakiy Akakyevich home?" "Petrovich..." "You showed up!" "He's long since waiting for you..." "We're always delivering order on time." "[talking everybody at the same time; just some trivial matters]" "Well, Akakiy Akakyevich, receive your things..." "It's finished, Akakiy Akakyevich." "Take it, sir." "Money, Petrovich, on the table." "Pardon me, I didn't have enough time to change it." "Golden hands." "You wouldn't find better ones in Petersburg." "If only he didn't drink..." "OK." "Here's the buttons." "I wish you prosperity!" "Wear it on your luck!" "He tried hard..." "Thank you, Petrovich." "Moth?" "Moth!" "Good morning, Akakiy Akakyevich!" "Quiet!" "Quiet!" "That's me" " Akakiy Akakyevich." "Calm down!" "I have to go to work." "What's happening?" "Good morning!" "The dog doesn't recognize me." "What's up?" "Morning!" "The dog doesn't recognize me." "What's going on out there?" "What's going on!" "Look, all through...what...it won't last even one day like this." "No way, thank you sincerely." "Oh, Mr. Bashmachkin!" "I didn't recognize you." "Gentlemen, new overcoat!" "Gentlemen!" "So it be:" "I'm throwing a party instead of Akakiy Akakyevich." "Everybody is invited tonight to have some tea." "[drink] to overcoat!" "Where is it?" "Gentlemen!" "Here you are!" "Have you eaten?" "Yes." "Here you go..." "Thank you." "Here's more." "What are you doing?" "Let's go." "I'll give you a hand!" "Thanks." "Here you go." "Farewell." "No, I..." "Good-bye." "Good-bye." "Hello...good-bye." "Be welcome, sir." "Sir?" "Me?" "Be welcome, master." "Emperor!" "The hat!" "Please, save me." "Daddy!" "I was looking for you..." "I beg you, come with me, just to the crossing." "I was looking for you..." "Let's go, policeman is after me." "Understand?" "Let's go." "Before you..." "Daddy, you'll catch cold." "Thank you, it's just that I..." "I can't listen to that." "Put your cap on!" "Don't look back!" "I'm not looking back, I'm..." "Let's go!" "For you..." "Thank you." "Oh, it's him again!" "But you..." "I'm..." "Faster!" "Daddy!" "Thanks, daddy, go home!" "Bye." "No, here's...here's..." "I have for you..." "Where are you?" "Oh, precisely...such circumstances... today, Akakiy Akakyevich..." "Oh, such circumstances." "Oh, these frenchmen, if they wanted..." "She's come back!" "What?" "Him?" "Just scream!" "..." "It's my overcoat!" "What, brothers, what..." "Guards!" "Alert!" "Guards!" "Alert..." "He has to go to [low rank] policeman." "It is done this way." "[This] policeman will swindle him:" "promise at first and then lead by the nose." "Keep quiet." "I say he must go to [higher rank] officer." "Go to [low rank] policeman first." "[shouting multiple people at the same time]" "Quiet, I say!" "...what concerns my rooms, I want to know..." "Quiet!" "What for are you here?" "My bad." "I came to you...because yesterday night..." "Daddy?" "Daddy!" "Daddy, remember." "Be so kind." "Yesterday I lead you from Nevsky [street], you were a little drunk..." "And I couldn't even be in some kind of [rented rooms]!" "Here." "I can't remember exactly, but yesterday night overcoat... new one...was stolen from me." "Who?" "Me?" "Hold her!" "Oh, you, bastard!" "I didn't take golden rings, and your overcoat your kindness, yesterday night while walking thorugh square..." "What square?" "I can't remember exactly, but..." "So, you can't." "Where from did you go that you can't remember a thing?" "From...there...was a party on account of new overcoat." "Drunk like a pig you went you yourself don't know where." "That's right." "My bad." "And you didn't show up for work!" "My bad." "Right!" "I...forgot." "To explain myself." "A clerk, Bashmachkin, want to see you." "Who is Bashmachkin?" "I couldn't say." "Where is he from?" "What's his businees [with me]?" "He doesn't say." "Tell him to come in." "Right." "His highness waits." "Please." "I...my bad..." "I wanted to explain myself." "I'm late for work." "My overcoat, completely new... ?" "before you or before somebody else..." "What are you doing, dear sir?" "You don't know the procedure." "My bad." "Where have you come?" "You don't know how things are arranged." "First of all you had to file in a request in registry." "It had gone to superior, then to head of department, then it would have been handed over to secretary and secretary would have given it to me." "You...just order it." "I only took a liberty to see you because secretaries...they're unreliable folk..." "What?" "Where did you get such nerve?" "My bad, your highness..." "Where did you get such ideas?" "My bad." "What disrespect towards bosses and superiors has spread amongst young people!" "Do you know whom you are saying this?" "Do you realize who is standing before you?" "Do you understand, I ask you!" "Alert!" "Alert!" "?" "Alert!" "Akakiy Akakyevich, lie down." "Petrovich, you have come!" "Good..." "I...forgot to tell you... when you begin to sew on the hood make a noose there... thief will sneak up and noose..." "Your highness, well then?" "You don't know how things are arranged." "You thought I..." "No." "Give me mine!" "And so that collar was from cat-skin." "Do you hear!" "I'm talking to you!" "?" "Swine-mug!" "Fraud!" "Bastard!" "It's too late to do something now." "You had to [call me] earlier, even yesterday perhaps..." "Have you heard, gentlemen?" "He tears off overcoats and looks for ranks and titles." "What if thief is not from clerks?" "How come!" "Victim [a general] has precisely described him," "He saw him like I see you now." "Low stature, unpleasing..." "But from which department?" "It's hard to say precisely." "It's just that... people say it's our Bashmachkin..." "Gentlemen!" "It turns out that thief is Akakiy Akakyevich." "It's impossible to confirm it for sure, but people say..." "Who?" "Who!" "Titular counsellor Bashmachkin." "God and Holy Mary!" "Your highness, here!" "[he] rented room from her." "That's him." "Did he go out this night?" "No, he didn't go anywhere." "It's two days since he's dead." "You're not being asked about that." "I know myself he's dead." "You are asked:" "did he go out this night?" "And at what time?" "He didn't go anywhere." "He lied so quietly." "Here he's deceased, there he's running around city and tearing off overcoats off superiors." "Faster!" "Faster!" "Stand!" "What's there?" "A casket, your highness." "Room for rent for a clerk." "In Philippoviy house."