“At ten o’clock in the evening Count Sagreda entered his club on the Boulevard des Capucines. The footmen rushed in a crowd to accept from him a cane, a shiny top hat and a luxurious fur coat; having undressed, the count appeared in a starched shirt of impeccable whiteness, with a carnation in his buttonhole and in the usual, modest, but elegant uniform - black and white - of a gentleman who had arrived straight from dinner...” The work is given in the pre-reform alphabet.

Translation : Tatiana Herzenstein