" "Are you, though? Heavily?" said Bartnyansky sympathetically.

"Very heavily: twenty thousand.

" Bartnyansky broke into good-humored laughter.

"Oh, lucky fellow!" said he.

" My debts mount up to a million and a half, and I've nothing, and still I can live, as you see!" And Stepan Arkadyevitch saw the correctness of this view not in words only but in actual fact.