Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colors.

“Well, you may abuse me, be angry with me if you like," Porfiry Petrovitch began…”

“There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody…”

“Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, she still showed traces of her…”

“And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievab…”