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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."
Next, he opened a gate into a large vegetable enclosure, and thence the koliaska emerged into a square near a wooden church, with, showing beyond the latter, the roofs of the manorial homestead. "A queer fellow, that Koshkarev!" said Chichikov to himself. "Well, whatever I may be, at least I'm here," said a voice by his side.
Having concluded his examination, Chichikov had just extracted another volume of the same species when Colonel Koshkarev returned with a document of some sort and a radiant countenance. "Everything has been carried through in due form!" he cried. "The man whom I mentioned is a genius indeed, and I intend not only to promote him over the rest, but also to create for him a special Department.
No, the cause of his agitation was lest the net should break, and the fish escape: wherefore he was urging some additional peasants who were standing on the bank to lay hold of and to pull at, an extra rope or two. "That must be the barin Colonel Koshkarev," said Selifan. "Why?" asked Chichikov.
You do not know General Alexander Dmitrievitch Betrishev?" exclaimed Chichikov with a touch of surprise. "No, I do not," replied the gentleman. Chichikov's surprise grew to absolute astonishment. "How comes that about?" he ejaculated. "I hope that I have the honour of addressing Colonel Koshkarev?" "Your hopes are vain.
Now, from the context it would appear that by this term the Petitioner desires to signify Souls Approaching Death rather than Souls Actually Deceased: wherefore the term employed betrays such an empirical instruction in letters as must, beyond doubt, have been confined to the Village School, seeing that in truth the Soul is Deathless. "The rascal!" Koshkarev broke off to exclaim delightedly.
"This the fact that never in my life have I come across such an imbecile," was Chichikov's reply. "Never mind," said Kostanzhoglo. "Koshkarev is a most reassuring phenomenon.
And he sounded a bell; whereupon there presented himself a man whom, addressing as "Secretary," the Colonel instructed to summon the "Commissioner." The latter, on appearing, was seen to have the air, half of a peasant, half of an official. "This man," the Colonel said to Chichikov, "will act as your escort." What could be done with a lunatic like Koshkarev?
Ha, ha, ha!" And once more the General's guffaws went ringing through the house. "If Colonel Koshkarev should turn out to be as mad as the last one it is a bad look-out," said Chichikov to himself on opening his eyes amid fields and open country everything else having disappeared save the vault of heaven and a couple of low-lying clouds.
It is to my house, not to his, that you have come; and I am Peter Petrovitch Pietukh yes, Peter Petrovitch Pietukh." Chichikov, dumbfounded, turned to Selifan and Petrushka. "What do you mean?" he exclaimed. "I told you to drive to the house of Colonel Koshkarev, whereas you have brought me to that of Peter Petrovitch Pietukh."
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