In this episode of Mystery Time, host Don Dowd takes listeners on a journey through a classic tale of mystery and human compassion with Nikolai Gogol's "The Overcoat." The story is brought to life by the renowned actor Michael Redgrave, who skillfully portrays Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, a modest government clerk whose life revolves around his work. As the narrative unfolds, listeners are drawn into Akaky's world, where his simple desire for a new overcoat leads to unexpected and tragic consequences.
Through vivid storytelling and dramatic performances, this episode explores themes of social status, human dignity, and the harsh realities of life in 19th-century Russia. As Akaky's journey progresses, the story delves into the bureaucratic indifference and societal neglect that ultimately lead to his demise. This poignant tale serves as a reminder of the enduring power of classic literature to reflect on the human condition and evoke empathy for the struggles of the overlooked and forgotten.
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This is Don Dowd, your host for Mystery Time. Tonight is every Thursday night, Mystery Time turns to the classics of literature to bring you mystery questions. Great stories of the past brought vividly alive by famous stars. Our star tonight, Michael Redgrave. Our classic, the famous sardonic tale by Nikolai Gogol titled The Overcoat. Here's a story full of the drama and the human compassion for which Gogol is noted. Michael Redgrave, with his accustomed skill, brings to vivid reality the part of the modest government clerk, Akaky Akakievich Vosmachkin.
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Yes. That's my name. I'm Kathy. I'm Kathy with slash mastery. Born in Saint Patrick's birth, master twenty nine seventeen nineteen eighteen. Died in Saint Petersburg, February The First Eighteen Nineteen Thirty. Oh, you're fine. I'm afraid I'm dead. And which story of the overcoaches? Well, this is a story of my death. In actual fact, it it was an overcoat that That's it. Yes. Yes. Yes. Your honor. I need it, dear honor. Help us. You see, my profession is all rather. It was that of a government clerk. Whatever else happened in my department, I was always to be found at the same desk and engaged in the same work. It's it's why I was a copying clerk, and and more than that, I never aspired to be. I thought you I thought you were something, sir?
[00:02:04] Unknown:
Yes, sir. Yes. Copy this. Certainly, sir. I can't. Oh, and this other one. Yeah. Now. Just the copy, please? Well, no. I want you to alter the headings for me. Oh, and turn it from the first person singular into the third. First person into into the first person? Yeah. No. The I is into is, man. That's simpler, isn't it? Well.
[00:02:25] Unknown:
That's really good. I think so. Of course, I I I'm not so used to, you know, that kind of work, but, it's not quite what I was Alright.
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Alright. Just copy it then. So copy it again.
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And at the end of the year, I could be sure that my work would have paid me just what it always had paid me, exactly 400
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I'm frozen to death, Peter, Vasilius. Oh, but but not an idea. Now what can you expect with a overcoat like that? Overcoat like what? Well, it's a regular. It's full of holes. And that, of course, for sure, that's not true. Because the overcoat is small, it's not even got a collar neck. Oh, Peter, I had to have most of the colonnade into a patch were both here. No. Good. Good. Thank you. I can't give it. Go and get a new one. But the white horse to pieces entirely.
[00:03:32] Unknown:
There's no real ways about it. I did need a new overcoat. But overcoat cost money, and money was hard to come by. In any case, unless the overcoat could be attached again, we'd be worried if it's COVID free. Taylor could do it if he didn't mind doing. I brought you this
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And you brought me what?
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It's it's like this. This is what occurs in mind. You see, it's got a little bit thin. You know, there's there's plenty of good everywhere else. You say it's fun with anything.
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All it's good for is making foot claws. I don't want to wrap them around your feet when it gets a bit cold. No, but What about You'll have to get a new one. Get a new one, but I please call it, I told you I haven't got the money for a new one. To get a new one. You will go. Well, if I did get a new one, how how much will you cost? Well, say hundred and 50 rubles or so. Of
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course. I'll use it in order to prove it to the sender with making a fine new code for 80 rubles. There were 80 rubles to this one. Oh, I'm looking for the dry. If I give up burning candles in the universe, it wasn't worth falling on the money. I still didn't know if I need to see what I'm doing.
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A long time. But, sir, I hope,
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you know, I've always tried them in every effort, never
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for a single moment. Exactly. And so as the reward of your good service, I persuaded his excellency to allow you a gratuity. Right. Gratuitous, sir? Exactly. A gratuity in recognition of service. The amount agreed is, 60 rubles. 60 rubles? Oh, thank you, sir. Oh, by the way, I suppose you'll, What, sir? I suppose you'll now be getting a new overcoat. Well, there it is. The best value for money you're That is it does look very handsome. It looks really beautiful over Tokyo. Oh, if I didn't live in a small street without a signboard. You understand? Mhmm. If I hadn't known you for so long, I got you. Yes. I appreciate that you're going Not really. Any other trailer would agree to take a mere 12 rubles for all his troubles. Yeah. On an elderly prospect, you'd pay You would need to ask you at least 75. Oh, yes. Because I could never do it. Of course, there were the extra buttonholes and what we saved you by using transfer or polystyrene Yes. And mechanical lining, of course.
It's not quite so good. It's still what it say you do at least it's. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. They don't look at all. I I mean,
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the the airfare mobile is Mhmm. Like, I'd say 10 copies for your time.
[00:07:37] Unknown:
I'd take just a drop to your head. A very smart, well tailored overcoat. This is this is that.
[00:07:49] Unknown:
Okay. I got my new overflow to die. I know there's no doubt about it. The other part was a good one. It's not the state and the total warmth.
[00:08:10] Unknown:
Cold enough to freeze your hip at the board. Oh, I just I do think so. I think it's another warmer this morning. Oh, that's that's that's because I've got a You said warmer? In an old rag of a croak like wait a minute. A wait. What? Why you've got a new overcoat. You like it? Everybody. No. I've got
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Oh,
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kind that you're here and face it. Indeed. And, of course, you'll be your overcoat.
[00:09:24] Unknown:
And so in good course, I've had my way across the town of the city of apartment. And since I said there was an assistant headscarf, of course, that meant he lived in the better part of the town, a long, long way away from my modest school. The streets were gay with lamps and sledges dashed along through the snow, and that they were jingling merrily.
[00:10:10] Unknown:
He does no I really think, though, if you don't mind No. It's in proper care. No. Thank you very much, sir. Just excuse me for a moment. Excuse me. Just a moment. I I I I will be back in a moment.
[00:10:36] Unknown:
And while the rest of the party settled down to their cars, I, basically, took up my overcoat from the floor of the passage where I was horrified to find it lying, busted it off, put it on quietly, and let myself out into the street. The state lamp stood up in the street. The street came from Germany. So any, I was not a girl abroad but myself.
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How can it be? No. No. This is my overcoat. This is the new one. There are so many. No. No. Come on up. No. No. No. No. No. No. Let me go. Let me go. I can hold. I'm a keep from my side. No. Come on. Give it back to me. I can hold. I have a stubborn eye overcoat. You let them steal it. I let them steal it. You let them steal it. But when I saw you talking to the men out there, I thought they were you saying. No. But why didn't you shout at if they were robbing you? Because they're telling me I couldn't speak and stole my overcoat. Why don't you go after them? Why don't you arrest them? Well, they must be a couple of worst away by now. I will go after them. If you're happy to say so, you're overcoat, you're less than reported.
Tomorrow morning. Over to the superintendent. No. But my overcoat, what can I do about that? You will just take my advice, sir. Go off on before you catch it. Get the coldest of snow turning about on a night like this with no coat on.
[00:13:23] Unknown:
Felt in the following morning, I was there at the superintendent's door. At last, after exercising our apologies for the very first time in my life, not a day, only to a fellow clerk, I I was actually into the superintendent's presence. There I told my story in all its agonizing detail.
[00:13:42] Unknown:
Now one moment there is.
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You were on your way home
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and it was late. You had been somewhere very late at night. Oh, dear, sir. Shall I tell you where you had been, sir? Where do I I You had been to a place of ill repute, sir. That is where you have been. No. That's, I've never done such a thing when I had after such an expedition such a deport. You have the coolest country to come here here with a complaint about the loss of an overcoat. But then I tell you something, my dear. But but but but no. Well, yes. Yes. Say it what? I very much doubt whether you had the overcoat with you at all after you left the, What? Well, after you, set out for your hope. What was the text? I feel they didn't steal my overcoat. I feel they did. They did. I I know that.
Well, sir, you shall see. Here, we shall see, sir, another, if you will pardon me, good day, sir.
[00:15:07] Unknown:
That was the first day in my life that I've been absent from my desk at the department. And following that, I was talking to my desk one for Copying. But I knew that the loss of my overcoat was uneffable to let, and I was a sad recipient of much sympathy and much well intentioned advice.
[00:15:28] Unknown:
Too bad about your overcoat, my dear fellow. Incredibly bad luck. You know, I really wish you hadn't slipped away like that on your own. If you waited for the others, it probably wouldn't have happened at all. I know that feeling you, Leonovitch, but, you know, I was very tired. Oh, look. There's only one thing to be done. You must go and feed his excellence. Now tell him the whole story and persuade him to take the matter up for you in proper quarters. Is this Caesar? Because he he would do that, Susan. Of course he would. I'm sure that it's A person of some authority. That's what he is. A person of considerable authority. So for will you be able to get my overcoat back then? But if his excellency can't, who could?
[00:16:27] Unknown:
And keeping them there. Nonetheless, he was a man with a kind heart and a good mix of man with a decent, and one of the most fond of his friends. He was more fond of impressing them. He was impressing one of them the day when I called upon him. This,
[00:16:44] Unknown:
fellow, whatever he is, that's waiting to see me, what's his name again? Akaky Akakyevich Bashmashkin, your excellency. Curridest name. And what is he, would you say? A clerk, did you say? Yes, your excellency. A copying clerk in the department. Very well. Have him come in. This will probably amuse you my account, a copying clerk from the department, to see me. Oh, good. Give them an x, these clerks, and they'll take a mile. What the last thing he wants with me. Really? Well, we should see what we can do for Well, we should see what we can do for you. I can't hear you. Well, what do you want?
Well, speak up now. I shall eat you. Have you lost your tongue? I will. Is it? Please, your excellency. I I Don't go on, man. Go on. Don't just stand there. It's my overcoat, your excellency. Your overcoat. What the juice are you talking about? You come here taking up my valuable time babbling about your overcoat. What's the matter with it anyway? I I I've lost it, your excellency. Lost it? Do you just say that you got the confounded assault with a come here? No. That said it was stolen, your excellency. A new of a coat that cost me 18 of a bullet, stolen off my back by a pack of things. What? You come and have a knee about it? Me?
Don't you know the proper way to proceed, but don't you know how things are done? You are first of all, having your petition to the office that I've answered your excellency, you know, clerks, the very undependable. I'm I'm very sorry. What sort of idea of these? Do you realize who you are talking to? Yes, sir. You realize who I am? Sir, get out. Let you know more of this tomfoolery. I'm overcoating
[00:18:55] Unknown:
How I managed to call away. How I got out of business, I never knew. In all my life, I've never been exposed to the world ever promoted by my personal
[00:19:26] Unknown:
The holy saints protect you, sir. You must have failed at once. Oh, dear. It may be a death you've caught. It
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was my death that I had caught. The next day, I was in a fever. And the day after that, I was delivered. And the day after that, in the coma. And the day after that, I was dead. Yes. Akaky Akakyevich Pashmark king was dead. A creature had departed this life whose cause no man could champion was yet no one, unmissed by no one. It was several days before I was even listening to the department because there was been a little copying required at that time. And when I had been missed,
[00:20:12] Unknown:
I thought I was going to inquire about me. Did you go to his room? That's right, sir. Well, didn't I tell you to bring him back? Will you? I want an explanation. Where he did? He couldn't come, sir. Why? Is he ill or something? Not exactly, sir. But what the hell is the matter with him then? Well, sir, they buried him three days ago. No. Really? Dear Billy. Prince Albertinevich. Yes, sir. You wanted me? Yes. Akakir Akakirich is dead. You'll have to copy this.
[00:21:09] Unknown:
Had chance to reach in one man, don't feel like a cringe of conscience on the other half, and that man has a constant great authority.
[00:21:20] Unknown:
Yes. In some way, if that's I was a little abrupt to the fellow. You know what I am, all bark and no bite. As a matter of fact, I tried to sort it over for a day or two. I sent one of my crafts around to get a feel ridiculous. This fellow had knocked a overcoat of all ridiculous things. But anything for us. There's no doubt I must be off. Charlie, you big Charlie. No. It won't come down to the door. Far too cold. This was really has been, but a terrible night.
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His excellency was helped him to his warm fur coat and climbed into his sledge. His driver cracked the whip, and the sledge moved off down the street. It's your overcoat.
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You refused to help me, and you were arrogant. You didn't care about my overcoat. Oh, give me yours.
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The next one, sir, arrived back, chose to the narrow, for him, sir, being a very fine overcoat. Oh, yes. Yes.
This is Don Dowd, your host for Mystery Time. Tonight is every Thursday night, Mystery Time turns to the classics of literature to bring you mystery questions. Great stories of the past brought vividly alive by famous stars. Our star tonight, Michael Redgrave. Our classic, the famous sardonic tale by Nikolai Gogol titled The Overcoat. Here's a story full of the drama and the human compassion for which Gogol is noted. Michael Redgrave, with his accustomed skill, brings to vivid reality the part of the modest government clerk, Akaky Akakievich Vosmachkin.
[00:00:58] Unknown:
Yes. That's my name. I'm Kathy. I'm Kathy with slash mastery. Born in Saint Patrick's birth, master twenty nine seventeen nineteen eighteen. Died in Saint Petersburg, February The First Eighteen Nineteen Thirty. Oh, you're fine. I'm afraid I'm dead. And which story of the overcoaches? Well, this is a story of my death. In actual fact, it it was an overcoat that That's it. Yes. Yes. Yes. Your honor. I need it, dear honor. Help us. You see, my profession is all rather. It was that of a government clerk. Whatever else happened in my department, I was always to be found at the same desk and engaged in the same work. It's it's why I was a copying clerk, and and more than that, I never aspired to be. I thought you I thought you were something, sir?
[00:02:04] Unknown:
Yes, sir. Yes. Copy this. Certainly, sir. I can't. Oh, and this other one. Yeah. Now. Just the copy, please? Well, no. I want you to alter the headings for me. Oh, and turn it from the first person singular into the third. First person into into the first person? Yeah. No. The I is into is, man. That's simpler, isn't it? Well.
[00:02:25] Unknown:
That's really good. I think so. Of course, I I I'm not so used to, you know, that kind of work, but, it's not quite what I was Alright.
[00:02:33] Unknown:
Alright. Just copy it then. So copy it again.
[00:02:41] Unknown:
And at the end of the year, I could be sure that my work would have paid me just what it always had paid me, exactly 400
[00:03:04] Unknown:
I'm frozen to death, Peter, Vasilius. Oh, but but not an idea. Now what can you expect with a overcoat like that? Overcoat like what? Well, it's a regular. It's full of holes. And that, of course, for sure, that's not true. Because the overcoat is small, it's not even got a collar neck. Oh, Peter, I had to have most of the colonnade into a patch were both here. No. Good. Good. Thank you. I can't give it. Go and get a new one. But the white horse to pieces entirely.
[00:03:32] Unknown:
There's no real ways about it. I did need a new overcoat. But overcoat cost money, and money was hard to come by. In any case, unless the overcoat could be attached again, we'd be worried if it's COVID free. Taylor could do it if he didn't mind doing. I brought you this
[00:04:05] Unknown:
And you brought me what?
[00:04:09] Unknown:
It's it's like this. This is what occurs in mind. You see, it's got a little bit thin. You know, there's there's plenty of good everywhere else. You say it's fun with anything.
[00:04:18] Unknown:
All it's good for is making foot claws. I don't want to wrap them around your feet when it gets a bit cold. No, but What about You'll have to get a new one. Get a new one, but I please call it, I told you I haven't got the money for a new one. To get a new one. You will go. Well, if I did get a new one, how how much will you cost? Well, say hundred and 50 rubles or so. Of
[00:04:55] Unknown:
course. I'll use it in order to prove it to the sender with making a fine new code for 80 rubles. There were 80 rubles to this one. Oh, I'm looking for the dry. If I give up burning candles in the universe, it wasn't worth falling on the money. I still didn't know if I need to see what I'm doing.
[00:05:49] Unknown:
A long time. But, sir, I hope,
[00:05:53] Unknown:
you know, I've always tried them in every effort, never
[00:05:57] Unknown:
for a single moment. Exactly. And so as the reward of your good service, I persuaded his excellency to allow you a gratuity. Right. Gratuitous, sir? Exactly. A gratuity in recognition of service. The amount agreed is, 60 rubles. 60 rubles? Oh, thank you, sir. Oh, by the way, I suppose you'll, What, sir? I suppose you'll now be getting a new overcoat. Well, there it is. The best value for money you're That is it does look very handsome. It looks really beautiful over Tokyo. Oh, if I didn't live in a small street without a signboard. You understand? Mhmm. If I hadn't known you for so long, I got you. Yes. I appreciate that you're going Not really. Any other trailer would agree to take a mere 12 rubles for all his troubles. Yeah. On an elderly prospect, you'd pay You would need to ask you at least 75. Oh, yes. Because I could never do it. Of course, there were the extra buttonholes and what we saved you by using transfer or polystyrene Yes. And mechanical lining, of course.
It's not quite so good. It's still what it say you do at least it's. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. They don't look at all. I I mean,
[00:07:27] Unknown:
the the airfare mobile is Mhmm. Like, I'd say 10 copies for your time.
[00:07:37] Unknown:
I'd take just a drop to your head. A very smart, well tailored overcoat. This is this is that.
[00:07:49] Unknown:
Okay. I got my new overflow to die. I know there's no doubt about it. The other part was a good one. It's not the state and the total warmth.
[00:08:10] Unknown:
Cold enough to freeze your hip at the board. Oh, I just I do think so. I think it's another warmer this morning. Oh, that's that's that's because I've got a You said warmer? In an old rag of a croak like wait a minute. A wait. What? Why you've got a new overcoat. You like it? Everybody. No. I've got
[00:09:02] Unknown:
Oh,
[00:09:15] Unknown:
kind that you're here and face it. Indeed. And, of course, you'll be your overcoat.
[00:09:24] Unknown:
And so in good course, I've had my way across the town of the city of apartment. And since I said there was an assistant headscarf, of course, that meant he lived in the better part of the town, a long, long way away from my modest school. The streets were gay with lamps and sledges dashed along through the snow, and that they were jingling merrily.
[00:10:10] Unknown:
He does no I really think, though, if you don't mind No. It's in proper care. No. Thank you very much, sir. Just excuse me for a moment. Excuse me. Just a moment. I I I I will be back in a moment.
[00:10:36] Unknown:
And while the rest of the party settled down to their cars, I, basically, took up my overcoat from the floor of the passage where I was horrified to find it lying, busted it off, put it on quietly, and let myself out into the street. The state lamp stood up in the street. The street came from Germany. So any, I was not a girl abroad but myself.
[00:11:41] Unknown:
How can it be? No. No. This is my overcoat. This is the new one. There are so many. No. No. Come on up. No. No. No. No. No. No. Let me go. Let me go. I can hold. I'm a keep from my side. No. Come on. Give it back to me. I can hold. I have a stubborn eye overcoat. You let them steal it. I let them steal it. You let them steal it. But when I saw you talking to the men out there, I thought they were you saying. No. But why didn't you shout at if they were robbing you? Because they're telling me I couldn't speak and stole my overcoat. Why don't you go after them? Why don't you arrest them? Well, they must be a couple of worst away by now. I will go after them. If you're happy to say so, you're overcoat, you're less than reported.
Tomorrow morning. Over to the superintendent. No. But my overcoat, what can I do about that? You will just take my advice, sir. Go off on before you catch it. Get the coldest of snow turning about on a night like this with no coat on.
[00:13:23] Unknown:
Felt in the following morning, I was there at the superintendent's door. At last, after exercising our apologies for the very first time in my life, not a day, only to a fellow clerk, I I was actually into the superintendent's presence. There I told my story in all its agonizing detail.
[00:13:42] Unknown:
Now one moment there is.
[00:13:44] Unknown:
You were on your way home
[00:13:46] Unknown:
and it was late. You had been somewhere very late at night. Oh, dear, sir. Shall I tell you where you had been, sir? Where do I I You had been to a place of ill repute, sir. That is where you have been. No. That's, I've never done such a thing when I had after such an expedition such a deport. You have the coolest country to come here here with a complaint about the loss of an overcoat. But then I tell you something, my dear. But but but but no. Well, yes. Yes. Say it what? I very much doubt whether you had the overcoat with you at all after you left the, What? Well, after you, set out for your hope. What was the text? I feel they didn't steal my overcoat. I feel they did. They did. I I know that.
Well, sir, you shall see. Here, we shall see, sir, another, if you will pardon me, good day, sir.
[00:15:07] Unknown:
That was the first day in my life that I've been absent from my desk at the department. And following that, I was talking to my desk one for Copying. But I knew that the loss of my overcoat was uneffable to let, and I was a sad recipient of much sympathy and much well intentioned advice.
[00:15:28] Unknown:
Too bad about your overcoat, my dear fellow. Incredibly bad luck. You know, I really wish you hadn't slipped away like that on your own. If you waited for the others, it probably wouldn't have happened at all. I know that feeling you, Leonovitch, but, you know, I was very tired. Oh, look. There's only one thing to be done. You must go and feed his excellence. Now tell him the whole story and persuade him to take the matter up for you in proper quarters. Is this Caesar? Because he he would do that, Susan. Of course he would. I'm sure that it's A person of some authority. That's what he is. A person of considerable authority. So for will you be able to get my overcoat back then? But if his excellency can't, who could?
[00:16:27] Unknown:
And keeping them there. Nonetheless, he was a man with a kind heart and a good mix of man with a decent, and one of the most fond of his friends. He was more fond of impressing them. He was impressing one of them the day when I called upon him. This,
[00:16:44] Unknown:
fellow, whatever he is, that's waiting to see me, what's his name again? Akaky Akakyevich Bashmashkin, your excellency. Curridest name. And what is he, would you say? A clerk, did you say? Yes, your excellency. A copying clerk in the department. Very well. Have him come in. This will probably amuse you my account, a copying clerk from the department, to see me. Oh, good. Give them an x, these clerks, and they'll take a mile. What the last thing he wants with me. Really? Well, we should see what we can do for Well, we should see what we can do for you. I can't hear you. Well, what do you want?
Well, speak up now. I shall eat you. Have you lost your tongue? I will. Is it? Please, your excellency. I I Don't go on, man. Go on. Don't just stand there. It's my overcoat, your excellency. Your overcoat. What the juice are you talking about? You come here taking up my valuable time babbling about your overcoat. What's the matter with it anyway? I I I've lost it, your excellency. Lost it? Do you just say that you got the confounded assault with a come here? No. That said it was stolen, your excellency. A new of a coat that cost me 18 of a bullet, stolen off my back by a pack of things. What? You come and have a knee about it? Me?
Don't you know the proper way to proceed, but don't you know how things are done? You are first of all, having your petition to the office that I've answered your excellency, you know, clerks, the very undependable. I'm I'm very sorry. What sort of idea of these? Do you realize who you are talking to? Yes, sir. You realize who I am? Sir, get out. Let you know more of this tomfoolery. I'm overcoating
[00:18:55] Unknown:
How I managed to call away. How I got out of business, I never knew. In all my life, I've never been exposed to the world ever promoted by my personal
[00:19:26] Unknown:
The holy saints protect you, sir. You must have failed at once. Oh, dear. It may be a death you've caught. It
[00:19:35] Unknown:
was my death that I had caught. The next day, I was in a fever. And the day after that, I was delivered. And the day after that, in the coma. And the day after that, I was dead. Yes. Akaky Akakyevich Pashmark king was dead. A creature had departed this life whose cause no man could champion was yet no one, unmissed by no one. It was several days before I was even listening to the department because there was been a little copying required at that time. And when I had been missed,
[00:20:12] Unknown:
I thought I was going to inquire about me. Did you go to his room? That's right, sir. Well, didn't I tell you to bring him back? Will you? I want an explanation. Where he did? He couldn't come, sir. Why? Is he ill or something? Not exactly, sir. But what the hell is the matter with him then? Well, sir, they buried him three days ago. No. Really? Dear Billy. Prince Albertinevich. Yes, sir. You wanted me? Yes. Akakir Akakirich is dead. You'll have to copy this.
[00:21:09] Unknown:
Had chance to reach in one man, don't feel like a cringe of conscience on the other half, and that man has a constant great authority.
[00:21:20] Unknown:
Yes. In some way, if that's I was a little abrupt to the fellow. You know what I am, all bark and no bite. As a matter of fact, I tried to sort it over for a day or two. I sent one of my crafts around to get a feel ridiculous. This fellow had knocked a overcoat of all ridiculous things. But anything for us. There's no doubt I must be off. Charlie, you big Charlie. No. It won't come down to the door. Far too cold. This was really has been, but a terrible night.
[00:21:57] Unknown:
His excellency was helped him to his warm fur coat and climbed into his sledge. His driver cracked the whip, and the sledge moved off down the street. It's your overcoat.
[00:22:50] Unknown:
You refused to help me, and you were arrogant. You didn't care about my overcoat. Oh, give me yours.
[00:23:17] Unknown:
The next one, sir, arrived back, chose to the narrow, for him, sir, being a very fine overcoat. Oh, yes. Yes.
