There was still the hunting establishment which Nikoláy had even enlarged, the same fifty horses and fifteen grooms in the stables, the same expensive presents and dinner parties to the whole district on name days; there were still the count’s games of whist and boston, at which⁠—spreading out his cards so that everybody could see them⁠—he let himself be plundered of hundreds of rubles every day by his neighbors, who looked upon an opportunity to play a rubber with Count Ilyá Andréevich as a most profitable source of income.