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Certainly he must have found the situation almost unbearable, in view of the fact that, after deriving inspiration from two glasses of tea not wholly undiluted with rum, Nozdrev was engaged in lying unmercifully. On sighting him in the distance, Chichikov at once decided to sacrifice himself.
At length, when a considerable distance had been covered, they caught sight of a boundary-post and a narrow ditch. "That is the boundary," said Nozdrev. "Everything that you see on this side of the post is mine, as well as the forest on the other side of it, and what lies beyond the forest." "WHEN did that forest become yours?" asked the brother-in-law.
"No; to leave an issue to cards means to submit oneself to the unknown," said Chichikov, covertly glancing at the pack which Nozdrev had got in his hands. Somehow the way in which his companion had cut that pack seemed to him suspicious. "Why 'to the unknown'?" asked Nozdrev. "There is no such thing as 'the unknown. Should luck be on your side, you may win the devil knows what a haul.
Ah, friend Chichikov, what times we had! Yes, give me a glass of vodka, old woman. What sort to you keep?" "Aniseed." "Then bring me a glass of it," repeated Nozdrev. "And one for me as well," added the flaxen-haired man. "At the theatre," went on Nozdrev, "there was an actress who sang like a canary.
Chichikov's discomfiture was complete. "And, would you believe it, your Excellency," went on Nozdrev, "but this fellow actually said to me, 'Sell me your dead souls! Why, I laughed till I nearly became as dead as the souls. And, behold, no sooner do I arrive here than I am told that he has bought three million roubles' worth of peasants for transferment! For transferment, indeed!
I have counted every move, and can remember each one. That piece has only just become added to the board. Put it back in its place, I say." "Its place? Which IS its place?" But Nozdrev had reddened a good deal. "I perceive you to be a strategist at the game." "No, no, good friend. YOU are the strategist though an unsuccessful one, as it happens." "Then of what are you supposing me capable?
Indeed, at thirty-five Nozdrev was just what he had been an eighteen and twenty he was just such a lover of fast living. Nor had his marriage in any way changed him, and the less so since his wife had soon departed to another world, and left behind her two children, whom he did not want, and who were therefore placed in the charge of a good-looking nursemaid.
At the time Nozdrev was engaged on some very important business so much so that he had not left his room for four days, and was receiving his meals through the window, and no visitors at all. The business referred to consisted of the marking of several dozen selected cards in such a way as to permit of his relying upon them as upon his bosom friend.
"I say again that it is a long time since last I had a chessman in my hand." And Chichikov, in his turn, moved. "Ah! I know you and your poor play," repeated Nozdrev, for the third time as he made a third move. At the same moment the cuff of one of his sleeves happened to dislodge another chessman from its position.
Again, to the question of whether or not Chichikov had schemed to abduct the Governor's daughter, and also whether it was true that he, Nozdrev, had undertaken to aid and abet him in the act, the witness replied that, had he not undertaken to do so, the affair would never have come off.
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