He himself felt that, except that crazy fellow married to Kitty Shcherbatsky, who, à propos de bottes [Quite irrelevantly.] had with rabid virulence told him a lot of pointless nonsense, every nobleman whose acquaintance he had made had become his partisan.
Ő maga is érezte, hogy azon a hóbortos úron kívül, a ki Scserbaczkája Kitit elvette, s a ki à propos de bottes bőszült haraggal egy sereg haszontalan bárgyúságot mondott neki, minden nemes, a kivel csak megösmerkedett, az ő pártjára állott.