u/Backenundso

In part 1 chapter 3:

“Why is it you seem so frightened, Stepan Trofimovich? I'm only repeating his drunken babble, anyway; when he's sober he keeps mum about it. He's an irritable man and, shall we say, of military aesthetics, only in bad taste.
And this sister is not only mad, but even lame. She supposedly had her honor seduced by somebody, and for that Mr. Lebyadkin has supposedly been taking an annual tribute from the seducer for many years, in reward for a noble offense, so at least it comes out from his babble-but I think it's just drunken talk, sir. He's simply boasting.”

As someone who worked in bars for most of my twenties, I found this description of a man so hilarious. So many ridiculous quasi-machos coming into the bar and causing shit all because of some untreated insecurities. So good lol