"Well, Kapitonitch?" said Seryozha, coming back rosy and good- humored from his walk the day before his birthday, and giving his overcoat to the tall old hall porter, who smiled down at the little person from the height of his long figure.

" Well, has the bandaged clerk been here today? Did papa see him?" "He saw him.

The minute the chief secretary came out, I announced him," said the hall porter with a good-humored wink.