"Don't argue!"
"No,that's not the General's dog," says the policeman,with profound conviction,"the General hasn't got one like that.His are mostly setters."
"Do you know that for a fact?"
"Yes,your honour."
"I know it,too.The General has valuable dogs,thoroughbred,and this is goodness knows what!No coat,no shape...A low creature.And to keep a dog like that!...where's the sense of it.If a dog like that were to turn up in Petersburg or Moscow,do you know what would happen?They would not worry about the law,they would strangle it in a twinkling!You've been injured,Hryukin,and we can't let the matter drop...We must give them a lesson!It is high time!"