"Yes, indeed! And they tell me that she says things which I hesitate even to repeat."

"Truly it wrings one's heart to see to what lengths immorality has come."

"Some of the men have quite lost their heads about her, but for my part I think her not worth noticing."

"Of course. And her manners are unbearable. But what puzzles me most is how a travelled man like Chichikov could come to let himself in for such an affair. Surely he must have accomplices?"

"Yes; and I should say that one of those accomplices is Nozdrev."

"CERTAINLY I should say so. Why, I have known him even try to sell his own father! At all events he staked him at cards."

"Indeed? You interest me. I should never had thought him capable of such things."

"I always guessed him to be so."

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