The Overcoat

What words or phrases create the humorous, mocking tone the narrator takes towards Petrovich The tailor and his wife?

What words or phrases create the humorous, mocking tone the narrator takes towards Petrovich The tailor and his wife?

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You must know that Akakiy Akakievitch's cloak served as an object of ridicule to the officials: they even refused it the noble name of cloak, and called it a cape. In fact, it was of singular make: its collar diminishing year by year, but serving to patch its other parts. The patching did not exhibit great skill on the part of the tailor, and was, in fact, baggy and ugly.

At first he was called only Grigoriy, and was some gentleman's serf; he commenced calling himself Petrovitch from the time when he received his free papers, and further began to drink heavily on all holidays, at first on the great ones, and then on all church festivities without discrimination, wherever a cross stood in the calendar.

"It won't go through, the barbarian! you pricked me, you rascal!"

"Why is it impossible, Petrovitch?" he said, almost in the pleading voice of a child.."

Unfortunately, little is known of her beyond the fact that Petrovitch has a wife, who wears a cap and a dress; but cannot lay claim to beauty, at least, no one but the soldiers of the guard even looked under her cap when they met her.

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The Overcoat