" "Oh, well, the higher power of Ryabinin can.

Not a single merchant ever buys a forest without counting the trees, unless they get it given them for nothing, as you're doing now.

I know your forest.

I go there every year shooting, and your forest's worth a hundred and fifty roubles an acre paid down, while he's giving you sixty by installments.

So that in fact you're making him a present of thirty thousand.