1 All along I knew that I should lose my money.
2 To save money is the most important thing in life.
3 "Kindly give me a receipt for the money," he added.
4 Then I cannot follow it, for I have no money with me.
5 That is to say, you would have seen merchant Likhachev losing a pile of money at play.
6 With that he requested Plushkin to make out the receipt, and then handed him the money.
7 However, she took the money gratefully, and even ran to the door to open it for the gentlemen.
8 Then, since you don't care to give me any money for it," persisted Nozdrev, "listen to the following proposal.
9 But, unfortunately, neither money nor real estate, whether improved or non-improved, can purchase such a stomach.
10 Lastly, the money concealed, Plushkin re-seated himself in the armchair, and seemed at a loss for further material for conversation.
11 Yet the youth had no particular attachment to money for money's sake; he was not possessed with the true instinct for hoarding and niggardliness.
12 In spite of the man being a friend of the Governor and the Chief of Police, he had acted like an outsider in taking money for what was worthless rubbish.
13 Well, he made shift to hire a lodging, but found everything so wonderfully furnished with blinds and Persian carpets and so forth that he saw it would mean throwing away a lot of money.
14 Once more Chichikov started to deny that he had any money upon him, but Sobakevitch insisted so strongly that this was not so that at length the guest pulled out another fifteen roubles, and added them to the ten already produced.
15 Chichikov placed the notes in Sobakevitch's hand; whereupon the host moved nearer to the table, and added to the list of serfs a note that he had received for the peasants, therewith sold, the sum of twenty-five roubles, as earnest money.
16 By this time he had grown into a fairly good-looking youth of the age when the chin first calls for a razor; and at about the same period his father died, leaving behind him, as his estate, four waistcoats completely worn out, two ancient frockcoats, and a small sum of money.
17 She belonged to that class of lady landowners who are for ever lamenting failures of the harvest and their losses thereby; to the class who, drooping their heads despondently, are all the while stuffing money into striped purses, which they keep hoarded in the drawers of cupboards.
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