Having graduated from the School of Law and qualified for the tenth rank of the civil service, and having received money from his father for his equipment, Ivan Ilych ordered himself clothes at Scharmer's, the fashionable tailor, hung a medallion inscribed respice finem on his watch-chain, took leave of his professor and the prince who was patron of the school, had a farewell dinner with his comrades at Donon's first-class restaurant, and with his new and fashionable portmanteau, linen, clothes, shaving and other toilet appliances, and a travelling rug, all purchased at the best shops, he set off for one of the provinces where through his father's influence, he had been attached to the governor as an official for special service.
Zuzenbide Eskolatik irtetean eta aitagandik uniformez hornitzeko dirua jasorik, Ivan Ilitxek Xarmerrenean eragin zuen jantzia eta erloju-bitxien artean domina bat eseki zuen "respice finem" inskripzioarekin; despeditu zen printze eta irakasleengandik, eman zien afari bat lagunei Donon-enean eta maleta berri modako, barne-arropa, jantzi eta bizarra kentzekoak, tokadore-gauzak eta bidai manta almazen hoberenetan eragin eta erosiekin, probintzia batera abiatu zen gobernariaren arazo partikularretako funtzionario postua hartzera, zeina aitak lortua baitzuen.