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Plushkin hung his head, and wagged it feebly from side to side. "Yes, all that I have done I have done purely out of kindness." "See how instantaneously I have divined your nature! By now it will have become clear to you why it is impossible for me to pay you five hundred roubles per runaway soul: for by now you will have gathered the fact that I am not sufficiently rich.
Lastly, the money concealed, Plushkin re-seated himself in the armchair, and seemed at a loss for further material for conversation. "Are you thinking of starting?" at length he inquired, on seeing Chichikov making a trifling movement, though the movement was only to extract from his pocket a handkerchief. Nevertheless the question reminded Chichikov that there was no further excuse for lingering.
"Don't you know?" queried Chichikov. "No, barin," replied the peasant. "What? You don't know skinflint Plushkin who feeds his people so badly?" "Of course I do!" exclaimed the fellow, and added thereto an uncomplimentary expression of a species not ordinarily employed in polite society.
"Yes, damn it! And since that date I have been bled for taxes upon a hundred and twenty souls in all." "Indeed? Upon a hundred and twenty souls in all!" And Chichikov's surprise and elation were such that, this said, he remained sitting open-mouthed. "Yes, good sir," replied Plushkin. "I am too old to tell you lies, for I have passed my seventieth year."
"Are you prepared to lose by it?" "Yes, certainly, if thereby I can please you." "My dear sir! My good benefactor!" In his delight Plushkin lost sight of the fact that his nose was caked with snuff of the consistency of thick coffee, and that his coat had parted in front and was disclosing some very unseemly underclothing. "What comfort you have brought to an old man! Yes, as God is my witness!"
"Seventy-eight souls at thirty kopecks each will amount to to " only for a moment did our hero halt, since he was strong in his arithmetic, " will amount to twenty-four roubles, ninety-six kopecks." With that he requested Plushkin to make out the receipt, and then handed him the money.
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