The second class--eight thousand roubles--consisted of less important debts.

These were principally accounts owing in connection with his race horses, to the purveyor of oats and hay, the English saddler, and so on.

He would have to pay some two thousand roubles on these debts too, in order to be quite free from anxiety.

The last class of debts--to shops, to hotels, to his tailor--were such as need not be considered.