However, in a friendly transaction one must not be too particular." "What a kulak!" thought Chichikov to himself.

"And what a brute beast!" "Then you do not want any WOMEN souls ?" queried Sobakevitch.
"I thank you, no." "I could let you have some cheap--say, as between friends, at a rouble a head ?" "No, I should have no use for them." "Then, that being so, there is no more to be said.

There is no accounting for tastes.

'One man loves the priest, and another the priest's wife,' says the proverb." Chichikov rose to take his leave.

"Once more I would request of you," he said, "that the bargain be left as it is." "Of course, of course.