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[ Literally, “nursemaid.”]
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[ Village factor or usurer.]
27 ([return])
[ Subordinate government officials.]
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[ Nevertheless Chichikov would appear to have erred, since most people would make the sum amount to twenty-three roubles, forty kopecks. If so, Chichikov cheated himself of one rouble, fifty-six kopecks.]
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[ The names Kariakin and Volokita might, perhaps, be translated as “Gallant” and “Loafer.”]