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"If Colonel Koshkarev should turn out to be as mad as the last one it is a bad lookout," said Chichikov to himself on opening his eyes amid fields and open country -- everything else having disappeared save the vault of heaven and a couple of low-lying clouds.
"Selifan," he went on, "did you ask how to get to Colonel Koshkarev's?"