That is to say, this section averred that Chichikov did NOT possess a wife, but that, as a man of subtlety and experience, he had bethought him of obtaining the daughter's hand through the expedient of first tackling the mother and carrying on with her an ardent liaison, and that, thereafter, he had made an application for the desired hand, but that the mother, fearing to commit a sin against religion, and feeling in her heart certain gnawings of conscience, had returned a blank refusal to Chichikov's request;
Txitxikov ez zegoen ezkondurik, baina, gizon maltzur eta zuhurra izaki, gobernadorearen alaba emaztetzat hartu nahirik, ama gorteatzeari ekin zion aurrena, eta, berarekin maitasunezko harreman ezkutuak izan ondoren, alabarekin ezkontzeko mandatu egin zion, baina amak, erlijioaren aurkako hoben larria egiteko beldurrez eta kontzientziako harrak janda, ezezko biribila eman zion, eta horregatik erabaki zuen Txitxikovek neska bahitzea.