'Oh, by the way!' said Oblonsky, 'I wanted to ask you to take an opportunity, when you see Pomorsky, to put in a word for me, and to tell him that I should very much like to get the vacant post of Member of the Committee of the Joint Agency of the Mutual Credit Balance of Southern Railways.' The name of the post that was so near his heart was already familiar to Oblonsky and he pronounced it rapidly without any blunder.
— Ah, a proposito — disse Stepan Arkad’ic — volevo pregarti, se ne hai l’occasione, quando vedrai Pomorskoj, di dirgli una parola nel senso che io desidererei molto di occupare il posto che si è reso vacante di membro della commissione dell’agenzia unita del bilancio mutuo-credito delle ferrovie meridionali.