Summary of “Players” Gogol
Ikharev, who appeared in the city tavern, meticulously asked the tavern servant Alexei about the lodgers: who are those, whether they play, only between themselves and where they take cards; generously rewards his understanding and goes to the general hall to reduce his acquaintance. Appear Krugel and Shvokhnev and get to know Gavryushka, the servant of the stranger, from where the master is, whether he is playing and whether he is winning now. Having learned that Ikharev had won eighty thousand recently, they suspect him of a sharper and are interested in what the master is doing, remaining alone. “He’s already a gentleman, he keeps himself well: he does not do anything,” the answer follows. Reward and Gavryushka. Ikharev gives Alexei a dozen cards of cards so that he puts them during the game.
Come Shvokhnev, Krugel and Consolation, paying tribute to the “affectionate caresses of the owner.” The controversy over whether the person belongs to society
The consolation reveals the preoccupational possibilities to throw up the crimson maps, without causing the slightest suspicion. Ikharev, trusting his friends, talks about his “Adelaide Ivanovna”, a composite deck, each card can be unmistakably guessed by him, and shows his admired society his art. Seeking an object for military operations, new acquaintances tell Ikharev about the visiting landowner Mikhail Aleksandrovich Glove, who laid the estate
Conducting Glova, Comforter goes for his son, believing to play on his hussar predilections and to lure money, two hundred thousand, for the mortgaged estate. The new-born hussar is given champagne, they are offered to take his sister away and sit down for cards. Raskazorivaya “hussar” and seeing something “Barclay de Tollevo” in his courage, Consolation compels him to release all the money. The game ends, Sasha signs a bill. However, he is not given a chance to win back. He runs to shoot, he is returned, he is urged to go straight to the regiment, and, giving two hundred rubles, they are escorted to the “black-and-white” one. An official Zamukhryshkin comes from the order and announces that Glova’s money will not be earlier than two weeks. Comforting dolamyvaet it up to four days. Iharev’s haste that eluded me was explained: the right information was received from Nizhny Novgorod, that the merchants sent the goods, already on the nose of the final deal, and instead of merchants came sons. Assuming they must be beaten by all means, Comforting gives Ikharev a bill of Glova, begging him not to hesitate, and immediately after receiving two hundred thousand to go to Nizhny, he takes eighty thousand from him and leaves, after Krugel, to hastily assemble. Shvokhnev leaves, remembering something important.
Ikharev’s lonely loneliness, reflecting that in the morning he had eighty thousand, and now two hundred, is interrupted by the appearance of a young Glova. When he heard from Alexei that the gentlemen had already left, he announced to Ikharev that he had been carried out, “like a vulgar stump”. An old father is not a father, an official from the order is also from their company, and he is not Glov, but “he was a noble man, he became a rogue”, undertook to participate in deception and hold Ikharev, and for this they promised him, before triumphing, three thousand, but they did not give it and so they left. Ikharev wants to drag him to court, but apparently he can not complain: the cards were his, and in fact he was illegally involved. His despair is so great that he can not be comforted even by Adelaide Ivanovna, who throws herself at the door and laments that forever there will be a rogue at the side “who will overhaul you.”
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