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For instance, the men's party declared that the whole story was rubbish that the alleged abduction of the Governor's daughter was the work rather of a military than of a civilian culprit; that the ladies were lying when they accused Chichikov of the deed; that a woman was like a money-bag whatsoever you put into her she thenceforth retained; that the subject which really demanded attention was the dead souls, of which the devil only knew the meaning, but in which there certainly lurked something that was contrary to good order and discipline.
"Why, I myself have not had time to finish that book by the Duchesse de la Valliere!" Much else the Colonel said. In particular did he aver that, provided the Russian peasant could be induced to array himself in German costume, science would progress, trade increase, and the Golden Age dawn in Russia. For a while Chichikov listened with distended eyes.
Nor have I ever been able to attain the art of expressing myself well. Consequently, although there is a possibility that in the er utterances which have just fallen from your lips there may lie something else concealed, it may equally be that er you have been pleased so to express yourself for the sake of the beauty of the terms wherein that expression found shape?" "Oh, no," asserted Chichikov.
Presently, on turning a corner, the britchka was brought to a halt through the fact that along the street there was filing a seemingly endless funeral procession. Leaning forward in his britchka, Chichikov asked Petrushka whose obsequies the procession represented, and was told that they represented those of the Public Prosecutor.
He ought to have taken after his maternal grandmother, whereas he has been born, as the proverb has it, 'like not father nor mother, but like a chance passer-by." Thus from the first life regarded the little Chichikov with sour distaste, and as through a dim, frost-encrusted window.
Then, turning to her brother, she added: "And you too must stay. Why should you be in such a hurry?" "Very well," he replied. "But what say YOU, Paul Ivanovitch?" "I say the same as you, and with much pleasure," replied Chichikov. "But also I ought to tell you this: that there is a relative of General Betristchev's, a certain Colonel Koshkarev " "Yes, we know him; but he is quite mad."
Herewith shall you hear what a splendid intellect is his, and how in a few minutes he has put the whole affair in order." "May the Lord be thanked for that!" thought Chichikov.
But, unfortunately, neither money nor real estate, whether improved or non-improved, can purchase such a stomach. The little wooden tavern, with its narrow, but hospitable, curtain suspended from a pair of rough-hewn doorposts like old church candlesticks, seemed to invite Chichikov to enter.
"As I listen to you, most worthy Constantine Thedorovitch," Chichikov hastened to remark, "it becomes plain to me that you have penetrated into the meaning of life, and laid your finger upon the essential root of the matter. "How he can best set about growing wealthy?" repeated Kostanzhoglo. "Why, "
But allow me, gentlemen, to piece together the further threads of the story. Not two months later there appeared in the forests of Riazan a band of robbers: and of that band the chieftain was none other than " "Allow me," put in the Head of the Police Department. "You have said that Kopeikin had lost an arm and a leg; whereas Chichikov " To say anything more was unnecessary.
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