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. Learning that Ikharev has won recently eighty thousand, they suspect in him 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 card decks 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 at all,
inspires the Comforter, bringing him only to the point of tears, to which Iharev, however, does not trust much. After dining with a snack and discussing the amazing properties of cheese, they sit down at the card table, and the guests are assured that Ikharev is a first-rate sharper. Consolation, the conspiracy of others, admires the art of the master and, repenting in his former intention to beat Ikharev, proposes to conclude a friendly alliance. A close society exchanges amazing stories. 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 it, and shows its admired society its art. Seeking an object for military operations, new acquaintances tell Ikharev about the visiting landowner Mikhail Aleksandrovich Glove, who laid the estate in the city for the sake of a seventeen-year-old daughter’s wedding and is now waiting for money. The trouble is that he does not play at all. The consoling goes after Glov
and soon leads him. The acquaintance is followed by the complaints of Glova about the inability to stay in the city, as well as the reasoning about the dangers of the card game, caused by the appearance of Krugel and Shvokhnev playing in the corner. Entered Alex reports that the horses of Glova are already filed. Taking his leave, the old man asks Consoler to look after his son, whom he leaves for the end of affairs in the city, for his son, twenty-two years old Sasha, is almost a child and dreams about hussars. 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 in the city for the sake of the marriage of his seventeen-year-old daughter and now waiting for the money. The trouble is that he does not play at all. The consoling goes after Glov and soon leads him. The acquaintance is followed by the complaints of Glova about the inability to stay in the city, as well as the reasoning about the dangers of the card game, caused by the appearance of Krugel and Shvokhnev playing in the corner. Entered Alex reports that the horses of Glova are already filed. Taking his leave, the old man asks Consoler to look after his son, whom he leaves for the end of affairs in the city, for his son, twenty-two years old Sasha, is almost a child and dreams about hussars. 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 in the city for the sake of a seventeen-year-old daughter’s wedding and is now waiting for money. The trouble is that he does not play at all. The consoling goes after Glov and soon leads him. The acquaintance is followed by the complaints of Glova about the inability to stay in the city, as well as the reasoning about the dangers of the card game, caused by the appearance of Krugel and Shvokhnev playing in the corner. Entered Alex reports that the horses of Glova are already filed. Taking his leave, the old man asks Consoler to look after his son, whom he leaves for the end of affairs in the city, for his son, twenty-two years old Sasha, is almost a child and dreams about hussars. Seeking an object for military operations, new acquaintances tell Ikharev about the visiting landowner Mikhail Aleksandrovich Glove, who laid the estate in the city for the sake of a seventeen-year-old daughter’s wedding and is now waiting for money. The trouble is that he does not play at all. The consoling goes after Glov and soon leads him. The acquaintance is followed by the complaints of Glova about the inability to stay in the city, as well as the reasoning about the dangers of the card game, caused by the appearance of Krugel and Shvokhnev playing in the corner. Entered Alex reports that the horses of Glova are already filed. Taking his leave, the old man asks Consoler to look after his son, whom he leaves for the end of affairs in the city, for his son, twenty-two years old Sasha, is almost a child and dreams about hussars. Seeking an object for military operations, new acquaintances tell Ikharev about the visiting landowner Mikhail Aleksandrovich Glove, who laid the estate in the city for the sake of a seventeen-year-old daughter’s wedding and is now waiting for money. The trouble is that he does not play at all. The consoling goes after Glov and soon leads him. The acquaintance is followed by the complaints of Glova about the inability to stay in the city, as well as the reasoning about the dangers of the card game, caused by the appearance of Krugel and Shvokhnev playing in the corner. Entered Alex reports that the horses of Glova are already filed. Taking his leave, the old man asks Consoler to look after his son, whom he leaves for the end of affairs in the city, for his son, twenty-two years old Sasha, is almost a child and dreams about hussars. laid the estate in the city for the sake of the wedding of his seventeen-year-old daughter and now waiting for the money. The trouble is that he does not play at all. The consoling goes after Glov and soon leads him. The acquaintance is followed by the complaints of Glova about the inability to stay in the city, as well as the reasoning about the dangers of the card game, caused by the appearance of Krugel and Shvokhnev playing in the corner. Entered Alex reports that the horses of Glova are already filed. Taking his leave, the old man asks Consoler to look after his son, whom he leaves for the end of affairs in the city, for his son, twenty-two years old Sasha, is almost a child and dreams about hussars. laid the estate in the city for the sake of the wedding of his seventeen-year-old daughter and now waiting for the money. The trouble is that he does not play at all. The consoling goes after Glov and soon leads him. The acquaintance is followed by the complaints of Glova about the inability to stay in the city, as well as the reasoning about the dangers of the card game, caused by the appearance of Krugel and Shvokhnev playing in the corner. Entered Alex reports that the horses of Glova are already filed. Taking his leave, the old man asks Consoler to look after his son, whom he leaves for the end of affairs in the city, for his son, twenty-two years old Sasha, is almost a child and dreams about hussars. as well as the argument about the harm of the card game, caused by the kind of playing in the corner of Krugel with Shvokhnev. Entered Alex reports that the horses of Glova are already filed. Taking his leave, the old man asks Consoler to look after his son, whom he leaves for the end of affairs in the city, for his son, twenty-two years old Sasha, is almost a child and dreams about hussars. as well as the argument about the harm of the card game, caused by the kind of playing in the corner of Krugel with Shvokhnev. Entered Alex reports that the horses of Glova are already filed. Taking his leave, the old man asks Consoler to look after his son, whom he leaves for the end of affairs in the city, for his son, twenty-two years old Sasha, is almost a child and dreams about hussars.
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 offer to take his sister away and sit down for cards. Raskazorivaya “hussar” and seeing something “Barclay de Tollevskoe” in his courage, Consolation compels him to lower 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.”
