Alright, first paragraph of Tolstoy's Selected Stories. God Sees the Truth, But Waits. In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dimitrik Askinov. He had two shops and a house of his own. Askinov was a handsome, fair-haired, curly-headed fellow, full of fun, very fond of saying. When quite a young man, he had given to drink, and was right as when he had too much. But after he married, he gave it up drinking. Except now and then. Alright, that was cool. Goodnight guys.