Главною его слабостию была страсть к прекрасному полу; нередко за свои нежности получал он толчки, от которых охал по целым суткам. К тому же не был он (по его выражению) и врагом бутылки, т. е. (говоря по-русски) любил хлебнуть лишнее. His greatest weakness was a love of the fair sex. It was not infrequent for him to receive, in response to his endearments, such blows that made him groan for days and nights. Neither, as he said himself, was he averse to the bottle, that is, as we say in Russia, that his passion was drink.