“Well⁠ ⁠… Vous savez chez nous⁠ ⁠… En un mot , set the most insignificant nonentity to sell miserable tickets at a railway station, and the nonentity will at once feel privileged to look down on you like a Jupiter, pour montrer son pouvoir when you go to take a ticket. ‘Now then,’ he says, ‘I shall show you my power’⁠ ⁠… and in them it comes to a genuine, administrative ardour. En un mot , I’ve read that some verger in one of our Russian churches abroad⁠— mais c’est très curieux ⁠—drove, literally drove a distinguished English family, les dames charmantes , out of the church before the beginning of the Lenten service⁠ ⁠… vous savez ces chants et le livre de Job