About the book: year / And for a long time I would have been begging for employment agencies, wasting money on travel and sleeping in a cheap tavern on a mattress if only one gentleman had not noticed me. Skinny as a pole, haggard and yellow-eyed, he immediately became unpleasant to me, and when he poked me with his cane and said, “Give me this one,” he became completely disgusting. - What do you want this for? And who to dispatch? “I pushed the bright red cane away from my chest and put my hands on my hips. “You, suffocating fellow, may not know, but in our kingdom the people are free.” And if you need something, then say what, and then ask whether I agree or not. Don’t poke, you know, with your toothpick to see if it’s hard…