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. Are you going to my son?

. I? Yes, I want to see Vovó for a minute.

. Go on, go on!

(to the peasants). Yes. Well, so what do you want?

. Accept our presents!

(smiling). So to speak, the country prepositions.

. Don't even mention it! We greet you as a father. So, don't mention it!

. Well— Fédor, receive these things!

. Well, give them to me! (Takes the presents.)

. Now, what business is it?

. We have come to your Grace.

. I see you have come to see me. But what do you wish?

. To make a motion in regard to the accomplishment of the sale of the land. It originates—

. What is it? Are you buying land?

. In rivality, it is so. It originates— So to speak in regard to the purchase of the proprietorship of land. Thus, for example, the Commune has inpowered us to enter it, so to speak, as is proper, through the government bank, with adhesion of a stamp of the legalized date.

. That is, you wish to buy land through the bank,—am I right?