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"Let's again suppose that you're my aunt, and I leave my wife with you. Just imagine, Madam Barsukova, that this woman is in love with me like a cat. And if you'll tell her, that for my good she must do so and so and thus and thus then there won't be no arguments!" Apparently, there was nothing more for them to talk over.
Barsukova gaily burst into laughter. "You know, Horizon, I couldn't at all expect that you're such a nasty villain! Let's have your wife, it's all the same. But is it possible that you've really refrained?" "A thousand?" asked Horizon seriously. "Ah! What trifles; a thousand let's say. But tell me, will I be able to manage her?" "Nonsense!" said Horizon self-assuredly.
They had, it seemed, no fear, no shame, no conscience when they conversed with each other. "Madam Barsukova! I can offer you something special! Three women: one a large brunette, very modest; another a little one, a blonde, but who, you understand, is ready for everything; the third is a woman of mystery, who merely smiles and doesn't say anything, but promises much and is a beauty!"
After his arrival, the next day, he set off to Mezer the photographer, taking with him the straw-like girl Bella, and had pictures taken in various poses together with her; at which for every negative he received three roubles, while he gave the woman a rouble. After that he rode off to Barsukova. Horizon and Barsukova met like old friends.
All the more so since you don't deceive me, nor I you. There's a great demand for women now. What would you say, Mister Horizon, if I offered you some red wine?" "Thank you, Madam Barsukova, with pleasure." "Let's talk a while like old friends. Tell me, how much do you make a year?" "Ach, madam, what shall I say? Twelve, twenty thousand, approximately.
Barsukova smiled artfully and asked: "Again a wife?" "No. But she's of the nobility." "Then that means unpleasantnesses with the police again?" "Ach! My God! I don't take big money from you; all the three for a lousy thousand roubles." "Well, let's talk frankly; five hundred. I don't want to buy a cat in a bag."
"It seems, Madam Barsukova, that it isn't the first time you and I have done business together, I won't deceive you and will bring her here right away. Only I beg you not to forget that you're my aunt, and please work in that direction. I won't be more than three days here in the city." Madam Barsukova, with all her breasts, bellies and chins, began to sway merrily. "We won't dicker over trifles.
For this money, in order to repay his expenses on the steamer, he bought several negresses and stuck them about in Moscow, Petersburg, Kiev, Odessa, and Kharkov. But, you know, madam, this isn't a man, but an eagle. There's a man who can do business!" Barsukova caressingly laid her hand on his knee.
Madam Barsukova was gazing at him with mistrust, shaking her head. "Mister Horizon! What are you trying to fill my head with? Do you want to do the same with me that you did last time?" "By God, I should live so, how I want to deceive you! But that's not the main thing. I'm also offering you a perfectly educated woman. Do with her what you like. In all probability you'll find a connoisseur."
Madam Barsukova brought out a promissory note, whereon she with difficulty wrote her name, her father's name, and her last name. The promissory note, of course, was fantastic; but there is a tie, a welding, an honour among thieves. In such deals people do not deceive. Death threatens otherwise. It is all the same, whether in prison, or on the street, or in a brothel.
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