What is done between friends holds good because of their mutual friendship.

Good-bye, and thank you for your visit.

In advance I would beg that, whenever you should have an hour or two to spare, you will come and lunch with us again.

Perhaps we might be able to do one another further service ?" "Not if I know it!" reflected Chichikov as he mounted his britchka.

"Not I, seeing that I have had two and a half roubles per soul squeezed out of me by a brute of a kulak!" Altogether he felt dissatisfied with Sobakevitch's behaviour.