“There lived a very kind teacher of the German language, Fedor Fedorovich Angst, in a provincial town. Angst was forty-seven years old, and he was a bachelor Everyone knows that the German is cautious and will save himself for a rainy day sooner than any of the other nations. If it were not for the light gray in his light brown hair, many would give him only thirty-seven years. But his fresh appearance was decrepit in comparison with his heart. Such a heart is unlikely to often be kept by a quick Frenchman, and an Italian, who, they say, has a fire burning in his veins. I myself did not see the Italians ... "