CHAPTER 18
TO I. L. SHTCHEGLOV
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MOSCOW,
April 18, 1888.
April 18, 1888.
. In any case I am more often merry than sad, though if one comes to think of it I am bound hand and foot. You, my dear man, have a flat, but I have a whole house which, though a poor specimen, is still a house, and one of two storeys, too! You have a _wife_ who will forgive your having no money, and I have a _whole organization_ which will collapse if I don't earn a sufficient number of roubles a month -- collapse and fall on my shoulders like a heavy stone.