"Did you ever see such a bag of tricks?
The cursed things have only just managed to get here.
In fact, on the way I had to transfer myself to this fellow's britchka." He indicated his companion with a finger.

"By the way, don't you know one another?
He is Mizhuev, my brother-in-law.

He and I were talking of you only this morning.

'Just you see,' said I to him, 'if we do not fall in with Chichikov before we have done.' Heavens, how completely cleaned out I am! Not only have I lost four good horses, but also my watch and chain." Chichikov perceived that in very truth his interlocutor was minus the articles named, as well as that one of Nozdrev's whiskers was less bushy in appearance than the other one.

"Had I had another twenty roubles in my pocket," went on Nozdrev, "I should have won back all that I have lost, as well as have pouched a further thirty thousand.