I shall be delighted." "In an almshouse ?" "In an almshouse?
People don't go into almshouses with three thousand roubles a year.

Ah, I remember," she laughed.

"Pyotr Stepanovitch did joke about an almshouse once.

Bah, there certainly is a special almshouse, which is worth considering.

It's for persons who are highly respectable; there are colonels there, and there's positively one general who wants to get into it.