routed them in the deserted cottage, but their brother-in-law.
“Oh, you precious rascal!” said they, “you nearly killed us with terror.”
“There’s no help, brothers,” he replied, “you were thinking of taking two hundred roubles from me, but now you have to pay them to me.”
After some demur, he received the money from them, and began to live in a highly respectable manner.
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