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[Coppock Nazir]

E had been such that a fly could be heard buzzing on the wing, and for
the space of a whole year

not a single pupil sneezed or

coughed in class, and so complete was the absence of all sound that
no one could have told that there was a soul
in the place. Of this mentor young Chichikov speedily appraised the
mentality; wherefore
he fashioned his behaviour to correspond with it. Not an eyelid, not an
eyebrow, would he stir during school hours, howsoever many pinches he
might receive from behind; and only when the bell rang would he run to
anticipate his fellows in handing the master the three-cornered cap
which that dignitary customarily sported, and then to be the first to
leave the class-room, and contrive to meet the
master not less than two or three times as the latter walked
homeward, in order that, on each occasion,

he might doff his cap. And the scheme proved

entirely successful. Throughout the period of his attendance at school
he was held in high favour, and, on leaving the establishment, received
full marks for every subject, as well as a diploma and a book inscribed
(in gilt letters) "For Exemplary Diligence and the Perfection of Good
Conduct." By this time he had grown into a fairly good-looking youth of
the age when the chin first calls for a razor; and at about the same
period his father died,

leaving behind him, as his estate, four waistcoats completely
worn out, two ancient frockcoats, and a small sum of money. Apparently
he had been skilled only in RECOMMENDING the saving of kopecks--not in
ACTUALLY PRACTISING the art. Upon that Chichikov sold the old house and
its
little parcel of land for a thousand roubles, and removed, with his one
serf and the serf's family,
to the capital, where he set about organising a new establishment and
entering
the Civil Service.

Simultaneously with his doing so, his old schoolmaster lost (through
stupidity or otherwise) the establishment over which he had hitherto
presided, and in

which he had set so much store by silence
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