It is nasal, screeching, yowling, mee-mawing, wailing—every sound excruciating to ears refined.

Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.

the respective connections of society

I had intended, from Novgorod, a visit to Mr. Glenny, at his establishment, eight miles distant, on the banks of the Veshora. Not finding him, however, I put up at a farm-house for the night, having previously drunk kuass at a convent, paid a rouble for charity, and received a blessing upon entering Muscovy - not without a hope that I should find better treatment here than in Esthonia.