The captain laughed, and complacently twisted his moustache, which imitated the fashion set by the Tsar.
“Camille is enough for me, what should I do with two mistresses?”
Tolstoi sang:
“Double flames make virtue vain!
Though thy heart love ladies twain
New love need not old love smother,
First serve one and then the other.
Capture one, then two, and then
All the rest, though there be ten!”