Dead Souls - Gogol Nikolai Vasilievich.pdf - Cove Systems

had built up a complete industrial
organisation, and the springs of the industrial
machine were in vigorous working order, and
each had become able to reinforce the other.
Labour should be kept in active operation,
and, even as, in a mill, flour comes flowing
from grain, so should cash, and yet more cash,
come flowing from every atom of refuse and
remnant. And all the while he could see before
him the landowner who was one of the leading
men in Russia, and for whom he had conceived
such an unbounded respect. Hitherto only for
rank or for opulence had Chichikov respected
a man--never for mere intellectual power; but
now he made a first exception in favour of
Kostanzhoglo, seeing that he felt that nothing
undertaken by his host could possibly come to
naught. And another project which was
occupying Chichikov's mind was the project of
purchasing the estate of a certain landowner
named Khlobuev. Already Chichikov had at
his disposal ten thousand roubles, and a
further fifteen thousand he would try and
borrow of Kostanzhoglo (seeing that the latter