The idea of marriage might seem droll, but soon I shall have property worth two hundred souls through a misanthropist whom you ought to despise. I can tell a lot and I can undertake to produce documents that would mean Siberia. Don’t despise my proposal. A letter from an infusoria is of course in verse.

“

Captain Lebyadkin

your most humble friend.

And he has time no end.”

“To the Perfection, Miss Tushin .