One character in this work claims to have lost a watch and four horses in a card game, and the protagonist observes that "one of [his] whiskers was less bushy in appearance than the other one".  
One character in this work claims to have lost a watch and four horses in a card game, and the protagonist observes that "one of [his] whiskers was less bushy in appearance than the other one".  That character later claims to have gone through seventeen bottles of Bonbon champagne with Ponomarev, before refusing to pay eighty kopecks for a cup of vodka.  Another character in this work claims, "governors who appoint capable subordinates are deserving of the most ample meed of praise" and is praised even by Sobakevitch as "a very pleasant fellow" before being thought to be Napoleon in disguise at the end of this work.  For 10 points—name this work in which Paul Chichikov buys the deeds to deceased serfs, a novel by Nikolai Gogol.
One character in this work claims to have lost a watch and four horses in a card game, and the protagonist observes that "one of [his] whiskers was less bushy in appearance than the other one".  
{Dead Souls}