Yet the best thing of all is that this matter will strike everybody as improbable; no one will believe in its reality. True enough, one can neither buy nor mortgage serfs unless one has land. But then I’ll buy them for resettlement—for resettlement, that’s it! Tracts of land are now being given away, free and for the asking, in the provinces of Tauris and Kherson, just so you settle there. And that’s precisely where I’ll resettle all my dead souls!
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