Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXVI

On the dam leaning, Lenski had been waiting impatiently for a long time 5 meanwhile Zaretski, a rural mechanic, 4 with the millstone was finding fault.

Onegin with apologies came up. "But where," quoth with amazement

Zaretski, "where's your second?" 8 In duels classicist and pedant, he liked method out of feeling and allowed to stretch one's man not anyhow but by the strict rules of the art 12 according to all the traditions of ancientry (which we must praise in him).