Embrace me.

I like you immensely.

Mizhuev, see how curiously things have turned out.
Chichikov has nothing to do with me, or I with him, yet here is he come from God knows where, and landed in the very spot where I happen to be living! I may tell you that, no matter how many carriages I possessed, I should gamble the lot away.

Recently I went in for a turn at billiards, and lost two jars of pomade, a china teapot, and a guitar.

Then I staked some more things, and, like a fool, lost them all, and six roubles in addition.