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"Maybe I have And do you knohy? You'll say again that I'm a

reactionist, or some other terrible word; but all the saerof

the nobility to which I belong, and, in spite of the a And their iance--that would be nothing; living in good style

--that's the proper thing for noblemen; it's only the nobles who

kno to do it Now the peasants about us buy land, and I

don't , while the peasant

works and supplants the idle lad for the peasant But I dothe process

of impoverishment from a sort of--I don't knohat to call it--

innocence Here a Polish speculator bought for half its value a

lady who lives in Nice And

there a et three acres of land, worth ten roubles,

as security for the loan of one rouble Here, for no kind of

reason, you've made that rascal a present of thirty thousand

roubles"

"Well, what should I have done? Counted every tree?"

"Of course, they must be counted You didn't count them, but