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.

" "Come, don't let your imagination run away with you," said Stepan Arkadyevitch piteously.

" Why was it none would give it, then?" "Why, because he has an understanding with the merchants; he's bought them off.