with the result that many a drawing-room heard it whispered that, if Chichikov was not exactly a beauty, at least he was sufficiently good-looking to serve for a husband, though he could have borne to have been a little more rotund and stout.
Hori asko ez zela, zorigaitza zorigaitzaren gainera, mutilgazteren batek bertso satiriko batzuk egin zituen, dantzariak trufa-gaitzat harturik.