"Here is he selling the goods before I have even had time to utter a word!" "And what about the price ?" he added aloud.

"Of course, the articles are not of a kind very easy to appraise." "I should be sorry to ask too much," said Sobakevitch.

"How would a hundred roubles per head suit you ?" "What, a hundred roubles per head ?" Chichikov stared open-mouthed at his host--doubting whether he had heard aright, or whether his host's slow-moving tongue might not have inadvertently substituted one word for another.
"Yes.

Is that too much for you ?" said Sobakevitch.

Then he added: "What is your own price ?" "My own price?
I think that we cannot properly have understood one another--that you must have forgotten of what the goods consist.