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"
No
,
"
replied
the
other
warily
,
"
but
I
have
been
a
member
of
the
CIVIL
Service
.
"
"
Oh
!
Of
the
CIVIL
Service
?
"
And
Plushkin
sat
moving
his
lips
as
though
he
were
chewing
something
.
"
Well
,
what
of
your
proposal
?
"
he
added
presently
.
"
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
!
"
For
the
moment
he
could
say
no
more
.
Yet
barely
a
minute
had
elapsed
before
this
instantaneously
aroused
emotion
had
,
as
instantaneously
,
disappeared
from
his
wooden
features
.
Once
more
they
assumed
a
careworn
expression
,
and
he
even
wiped
his
face
with
his
handkerchief
,
then
rolled
it
into
a
ball
,
and
rubbed
it
to
and
fro
against
his
upper
lip
.
"
If
it
will
not
annoy
you
again
to
state
the
proposal
,
"
he
went
on
,
"
what
you
undertake
to
do
is
to
pay
the
annual
tax
upon
these
souls
,
and
to
remit
the
money
either
to
me
or
to
the
Treasury
?
"
"
Yes
,
that
is
how
it
shall
be
done
.
We
will
draw
up
a
deed
of
purchase
as
though
the
souls
were
still
alive
and
you
had
sold
them
to
myself
.
"
"
Quite
so
--
a
deed
of
purchase
,
"
echoed
Plushkin
,
once
more
relapsing
into
thought
and
the
chewing
motion
of
the
lips
.
"
But
a
deed
of
such
a
kind
will
entail
certain
expenses
,
and
lawyers
are
so
devoid
of
conscience
!
In
fact
,
so
extortionate
is
their
avarice
that
they
will
charge
one
half
a
rouble
,
and
then
a
sack
of
flour
,
and
then
a
whole
waggon-load
of
meal
.
I
wonder
that
no
one
has
yet
called
attention
to
the
system
.
"
Upon
that
Chichikov
intimated
that
,
out
of
respect
for
his
host
,
he
himself
would
bear
the
cost
of
the
transfer
of
souls
.
