'I always advised Mary Semenovna to let her estate, because she will never make it pay,' said a pleasant-voiced landowner with a grey moustache, wearing the uniform of Colonel of the former General Staff.
–Y yo le aconsejé siempre a María Semenovna que lo arrendase, porque ella no podría obtener nunca ganancias –decía, con voz agradable, un propietario de tierras, de bigotes canosos, con uniforme de coronel de Estado Mayor.