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That was one disagreeable thing The other slightly disagreeable

fact was that the new head of his department, like all new heads,

had the reputation already of a terrible person, who got up at

six o'clock in the , worked like a horse, and insisted on

his subordinates working in the same way Moreover, this new

head had the further reputation of being a bear in histo all reports, a man of a class in all

respects the opposite of that to which his predecessor had

belonged, and to which Stepan Arkadyevitch had hitherto belonged

himself On the previous day Stepan Arkadyevitch had appeared at

the office in a uniform, and the new chief had been very affable

and had talked to him as to an acquaintance Consequently Stepan

Arkadyevitch deemed it his duty to call upon hiht that the new chief ht not

tender hi But

Stepan Arkadyevitch instinctively felt that everything would _coht "They're all people, all men, like us poor

sinners; why be nasty and quarrelsoht as he went

into the hotel

"Good-day, Vassily," he said, walking into the corridor with his

hat cocked on one side, and addressing a footrow! Levin, number seven, eh? Take me

up, please And find out whether Count Anitchkin" (this was the