Note 144 — Chapter 15 Officials—Siberian Governors-General—A Rapacious Police-Master—An Accommodating Judge—A Roasted Police-Captain—A Tatar Missionary—A Boy of the Female Sex—The Potato Terror, etc.
Constance Garnett translation
An epigram of Pushkin’s contains the two lines:—
‘“I’ll buy all,” said Gold.
“I’ll take all,” said Steel.’—(Translator’s Note.)