He looked so horrible, and had horns longer than a bull's!" "I wonder you don't see SCORES of devils in your dreams! Merely out of Christian charity he had come to you to say, 'I perceive a poor widow going to rack and ruin, and likely soon to stand in danger of want.' Well, go to rack and ruin--yes, you and all your village together!" "The insults!" exclaimed the old woman, glancing at her visitor in terror.
"I should think so!" continued Chichikov.

"Indeed, I cannot find words to describe you.

To say no more about it, you are like a dog in a manger.

You don't want to eat the hay yourself, yet you won't let anyone else touch it.

All that I am seeking to do is to purchase certain domestic products of yours, for the reason that I have certain Government contracts to fulfil." This last he added in passing, and without any ulterior motive, save that it came to him as a happy thought.