The indentures shall be completed to-day, but you must continue your sojourn in our midst.

I will issue the necessary orders at once." So saying, he opened the door into the general office, where the clerks looked like a swarm of bees around a honeycomb (if I may liken affairs of Government to such an article ?).
"Is Ivan Antonovitch here ?" asked the President.
"Yes," replied a voice from within.
"Then send him here." Upon that the pitcher-faced Ivan Antonovitch made his appearance in the doorway, and bowed.
"Take these indentures, Ivan Antonovitch," said the President, "and see that they--" "But first I would ask you to remember," put in Sobakevitch, "that witnesses ought to be in attendance--not less than two on behalf of either party.

Let us, therefore, send for the Public Prosecutor, who has little to do, and has even that little done for him by his chief clerk, Zolotucha.

The Inspector of the Medical Department is also a man of leisure, and likely to be at home--if he has not gone out to a card party.

Others also there are--all men who cumber the ground for nothing." "Quite so, quite so," agreed the President, and at once dispatched a clerk to fetch the persons named.
"Also," requested Chichikov, "I should be glad if you would send for the accredited representative of a certain lady landowner with whom I have done business.