Within the apartment designated Chichikov encountered the old friends which one invariably finds in such roadside hostelries-to wit, a heavy samovar, four smooth, bescratched walls of white pine, a three-cornered press with cups and teapots, egg-cups of gilded china standing in front of ikons suspended by blue and red ribands, a cat lately delivered of a family, a mirror which gives one four eyes instead of two and a pancake for a face, and, beside the ikons, some bunches of herbs and carnations of such faded dustiness that, should one attempt to smell them, one is bound to burst out sneezing.
portzelanazko arrautza urreztatuak ikonoen aurrean, ohiko xingola urdin eta gorrietatik zintzilik; katemea bere katakume jaio berriekin; bi begi barik lau eta aurpegia barik opilaren antzeko irudi biribil bat itzultzen dituen ispilua; eta, azkenik, azaoka bilduriko usain-belarrak eta krabelinak ikonoen alboan, hain zimelduak, non usaintzeko asmoz hurbiltzen zaienak usin besterik ez baitu egiten.