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Updated: May 15, 2025
"The first impression I obtained was that Don Calixto is the most influential person in the town; the second, that besides him, either with him or against him, there is a Senor Don Platon Peribanez, almost as influential as Don Calixto.
"All this timber," said Platon, "has grown up within eight or ten years at the most; whereas on another man's land it would have taken twenty to attain the same growth." "And how has your brother-in-law effected this?" "You must ask him yourself. He is so excellent a husbandman that nothing ever fails with him.
"An extraordinary man!" was Platon's unspoken comment. "However, we must contrive to wet our bargain somehow," continued Khlobuev. "Hi, Kirushka! Bring that bottle of champagne." "Nothing to eat, yet champagne to drink!" reflected Chichikov. As for Platon, he did not know WHAT to think.
"Don Platon Peribanez has a silver-shop fitted up in the old style; a small show-window, full of rattles, Moorish anklets, necklaces, little crosses, et cetera; a narrow, dark shop, then a long passage, and at the rear, a workroom with a window on a court. "As his assistant in the silver-shop, Don Platon has a boy who is a nonsuch.
When Pierre reached the fire and heard Platon's voice enfeebled by illness, and saw his pathetic face brightly lit up by the blaze, he felt a painful prick at his heart. His feeling of pity for this man frightened him and he wished to go away, but there was no other fire, and Pierre sat down, trying not to look at Platon. "Well, how are you?" he asked.
"I must repeat my request, Paul Ivanovitch," said Khlobuev, " namely, that you pay me at least fifteen thousand immediately." "The odd five thousand I will lend you," put in Platon to Chichikov. "Indeed?" exclaimed Chichikov as he reflected: "So he also lends money!"
His hair was bound round, workman fashion, with a wisp of lime-tree bast, and his round face seemed rounder and pleasanter than ever. "A promise is own brother to performance! I said Friday and here it is, ready," said Platon, smiling and unfolding the shirt he had sewn.
The secretary of the municipality, the employees, all who were friends and adherents to the boss's group that Don Platon belonged with, began by degrees to leave Castro. Those who had lost their jobs, and their protectors too, began to write letters and more letters to the Deputy.
"I have made up my mind to go touring our Holy Russia with Paul Ivanovitch," said Platon. "Perhaps it will rid me of my melancholy." The party turned to the right, and entered the gates of an ancient courtyard attached to an old-fashioned house of a type no longer built the type which has huge gables supporting a high-pitched roof.
Nor in these rooms could Chichikov detect the least trace of a feminine hand, beyond the fact that certain tables and chairs bore drying-boards whereon were arranged some sprinklings of flower petals. "What is all this rubbish for?" asked Platon. "It is not rubbish," replied the lady of the house. "On the contrary, it is the best possible remedy for fever.
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