Status Updates From Le anime morte

Chichikov es práctico al pensar en una futura esposa, no es joven y enamoradizo; es maduro e utilitario

Chapter 3: Chichikov crashes out on an old hag who won’t sell him dead serfs, including one named Cow Dung Brick, and would rather offer him hemp.

Manilov, a wannabe aristocrat, kisses Chichikov’s ass while the latter imparts wisdom on the former regarding the link between pipe smoking and asthma right before asking to buy wannabe Manilov’s dead peasants in order to commit tax fraud and scam the motherland.