So that in fact you're making him a present of thirty thousand.

" "Come, don't let your imagination run away with you," said Stepan Arkadyevitch piteously.

" Why was it none would give it, then?" "Why, because he has an understanding with the merchants; he's bought them off.

I've had to do with all of them; I know them.

They're not merchants, you know: they're speculators.