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"I did not count it, but only saw some 100-rouble notes." "Ah! The prisoner saw 100-rouble notes. That's all?" "Well, so you brought back the money," continued the president, looking at the clock. "I did." "Well, and then?" "Then he took me back with him," said Maslova. "Well, and how did you give him the powder? In his drink?" "How did I give it? I put them in and gave it him."
Then two years later this same nephew stayed four days with his aunts before proceeding to join his regiment, and the night before he left he betrayed Katusha, and, after giving her a 100-rouble note, went away. Five months later she knew for certain that she was to be a mother. After that everything seemed repugnant to her, her only thought being how to escape from the shame that awaited her.
She flushed up when she saw him and wished to pass by, directing his attention to the open door of the maids' room by a look, but he stopped her. "I have come to say good-bye," he said, crumbling in his hand an envelope with a 100-rouble note inside. "There, I . . . " She guessed what he meant, knit her brows, and shaking her head pushed his hand away.
When an inventory of the property of the deceased was made, only 312 roubles and 16 copecks were found. In the portmanteau opened by the said Maslova, the said Botchkova and Kartinkin saw packets of 100-rouble bank-notes.
As you will see, that makes a rouble worth a dime, and to make matters worse all the money is paper, coins having gone out of circulation since the beginning of the mix-up. A kopec is the size of a postage stamp, a rouble looks like a United Cigar Store's Certificate, a 25-rouble note resembles a porous plaster and a 100-rouble note the Declaration of Independence.
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