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"
Surely
not
?
"
"
CERTAINLY
I
should
say
so
.
Why
,
I
have
known
him
even
try
to
sell
his
own
father
!
At
all
events
he
staked
him
at
cards
.
"
"
Indeed
!
You
interest
me
.
I
should
never
had
thought
him
capable
of
such
things
.
"
"
I
always
guessed
him
to
be
so
.
"
The
two
ladies
were
still
discussing
the
matter
with
acumen
and
success
when
there
walked
into
the
room
the
Public
Prosecutor
--
bushy
eyebrows
,
motionless
features
,
blinking
eyes
,
and
all
.
At
once
the
ladies
hastened
to
inform
him
of
the
events
related
,
adducing
therewith
full
details
both
as
to
the
purchase
of
dead
souls
and
as
to
the
scheme
to
abduct
the
Governor
's
daughter
;
after
which
they
departed
in
different
directions
,
for
the
purpose
of
raising
the
rest
of
the
town
.
For
the
execution
of
this
undertaking
not
more
than
half
an
hour
was
required
.
So
thoroughly
did
they
succeed
in
throwing
dust
in
the
public
's
eyes
that
for
a
while
every
one
--
more
especially
the
army
of
public
officials
--
was
placed
in
the
position
of
a
schoolboy
who
,
while
still
asleep
,
has
had
a
bag
of
pepper
thrown
in
his
face
by
a
party
of
more
early-rising
comrades
.
The
questions
now
to
be
debated
resolved
themselves
into
two
--
namely
,
the
question
of
the
dead
souls
and
the
question
of
the
Governor
's
daughter
.
To
this
end
two
parties
were
formed
--
the
men
's
party
and
the
feminine
section
.
The
men
's
party
--
the
more
absolutely
senseless
of
the
two
--
devoted
its
attention
to
the
dead
souls
:
the
women
's
party
occupied
itself
exclusively
with
the
alleged
abduction
of
the
Governor
's
daughter
.
And
here
it
may
be
said
(
to
the
ladies
'
credit
)
that
the
women
's
party
displayed
far
more
method
and
caution
than
did
its
rival
faction
,
probably
because
the
function
in
life
of
its
members
had
always
been
that
of
managing
and
administering
a
household
.
With
the
ladies
,
therefore
,
matters
soon
assumed
vivid
and
definite
shape
;
they
became
clearly
and
irrefutably
materialised
;
they
stood
stripped
of
all
doubt
and
other
impedimenta
.
Said
some
of
the
ladies
in
question
,
Chichikov
had
long
been
in
love
with
the
maiden
,
and
the
pair
had
kept
tryst
by
the
light
of
the
moon
,
while
the
Governor
would
have
given
his
consent
(
seeing
that
Chichikov
was
as
rich
as
a
Jew
)
but
for
the
obstacle
that
Chichikov
had
deserted
a
wife
already
(
how
the
worthy
dames
came
to
know
that
he
was
married
remains
a
mystery
)
,
and
the
said
deserted
wife
,
pining
with
love
for
her
faithless
husband
,
had
sent
the
Governor
a
letter
of
the
most
touching
kind
,
so
that
Chichikov
,
on
perceiving
that
the
father
and
mother
would
never
give
their
consent
,
had
decided
to
abduct
the
girl
.
In
other
circles
the
matter
was
stated
in
a
different
way
.
That
is
to
say
,
this
section
averred
that
Chichikov
did
NOT
possess
a
wife
,
but
that
,
as
a
man
of
subtlety
and
experience
,
he
had
bethought
him
of
obtaining
the
daughter
's
hand
through
the
expedient
of
first
tackling
the
mother
and
carrying
on
with
her
an
ardent
liaison
,
and
that
,
thereafter
,
he
had
made
an
application
for
the
desired
hand
,
but
that
the
mother
,
fearing
to
commit
a
sin
against
religion
,
and
feeling
in
her
heart
certain
gnawings
of
conscience
,
had
returned
a
blank
refusal
to
Chichikov
's
request
;
whereupon
Chichikov
had
decided
to
carry
out
the
abduction
alleged
.
To
the
foregoing
,
of
course
,
there
became
appended
various
additional
proofs
and
items
of
evidence
,
in
proportion
as
the
sensation
spread
to
more
remote
corners
of
the
town
.
At
length
,
with
these
perfectings
,
the
affair
reached
the
ears
of
the
Governor
's
wife
herself
.
Naturally
,
as
the
mother
of
a
family
,
and
as
the
first
lady
in
the
town
,
and
as
a
matron
who
had
never
before
been
suspected
of
things
of
the
kind
,
she
was
highly
offended
when
she
heard
the
stories
,
and
very
justly
so
:
with
the
result
that
her
poor
young
daughter
,
though
innocent
,
had
to
endure
about
as
unpleasant
a
tete-a-tete
as
ever
befell
a
maiden
of
sixteen
,
while
,
for
his
part
,
the
Swiss
footman
received
orders
never
at
any
time
to
admit
Chichikov
to
the
house
.
Having
done
their
business
with
the
Governor
's
wife
,
the
ladies
'
party
descended
upon
the
male
section
,
with
a
view
to
influencing
it
to
their
own
side
by
asserting
that
the
dead
souls
were
an
invention
used
solely
for
the
purpose
of
diverting
suspicion
and
successfully
affecting
the
abduction
.
And
,
indeed
,
more
than
one
man
was
converted
,
and
joined
the
feminine
camp
,
in
spite
of
the
fact
that
thereby
such
seceders
incurred
strong
names
from
their
late
comrades
--
names
such
as
"
old
women
,
"
"
petticoats
,
"
and
others
of
a
nature
peculiarly
offensive
to
the
male
sex
.
Also
,
however
much
they
might
arm
themselves
and
take
the
field
,
the
men
could
not
compass
such
orderliness
within
their
ranks
as
could
the
women
.
With
the
former
everything
was
of
the
antiquated
and
rough-hewn
and
ill-fitting
and
unsuitable
and
badly-adapted
and
inferior
kind
;
their
heads
were
full
of
nothing
but
discord
and
triviality
and
confusion
and
slovenliness
of
thought
.
In
brief
,
they
displayed
everywhere
the
male
bent
,
the
rude
,
ponderous
nature
which
is
incapable
either
of
managing
a
household
or
of
jumping
to
a
conclusion
,
as
well
as
remains
always
distrustful
and
lazy
and
full
of
constant
doubt
and
everlasting
timidity
.
For
instance
,
the
men
's
party
declared
that
the
whole
story
was
rubbish
--
that
the
alleged
abduction
of
the
Governor
's
daughter
was
the
work
rather
of
a
military
than
of
a
civilian
culprit
;
that
the
ladies
were
lying
when
they
accused
Chichikov
of
the
deed
;
that
a
woman
was
like
a
money-bag
--
whatsoever
you
put
into
her
she
thenceforth
retained
;
that
the
subject
which
really
demanded
attention
was
the
dead
souls
,
of
which
the
devil
only
knew
the
meaning
,
but
in
which
there
certainly
lurked
something
that
was
contrary
to
good
order
and
discipline
.
