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Lastly, a peasant of Tientietnikov's own village, when asked what his barin was like, returned no answer at all. All of which would appear to show that Tientietnikov was not exactly looked upon with favour.
Not because Prince Pavlo wanted to give the peasants work, not because he wanted to save them from starvation not at all, although, in the gratification of his own whim, he happened to render those trifling services; but merely because he was a great "bárin" a prince who could have any thing he desired. Had not the other bárin Steinmetz by name superintended the work?
You are a gentleman, Barin, and gentlemen have got to be done away with. The old woman will wake you.... Sleep now." Prozorovsky lay down without undressing, put his cape under his head and at once caught a cockroach on his neck! Some young pigs grunted in a corner. The hut was swarming with vermin, blackened by smoke and filled with stenches.
You'll see to-morrow...." "And the soldiers, Barin?" "Oh, the soldiers won't do anything. Talk's one thing action's another." He laughed to himself and seemed greatly amused. This irritated me. "Well, what do you know?" I asked. "I know nothing," he chuckled. "But remember, Barin, in a week's time, if you want me I'm your friend. Who knows? In a week I may be a rich man."
A word or two with a friend that is all that I have taken. Any one may talk with a decent man when he meets him. There is nothing wrong in that. Also, we had a snack together. There is nothing wrong in a snack especially a snack with a decent man." "What did I say to you when last you got drunk?" asked Chichikov. "Have you forgotten what I said then?" "No, no, barin. HOW could I forget it?
"Certainly," said Petrokoff loftily, "Certainly; but you would have to pass an examination. Your bowing, for instance, is bad! You should hold your arm so, and your wrist like this." "Like this?" murmured Velasco, curving his wrist first in one way, then in another. "That is indeed difficult, Bárin." "Give the bow to me," said Petrokoff, "Now, let me show you!
I am what you see.... If there's going to be trouble in the town I may as well be there. Why not I as well as another? And it is to your advantage, Barin, that I should be." "Why to my advantage?" I asked him. "Because I am your friend, and we'll protect you," he answered. "I wouldn't trust you a yard," I told him. "Well, perhaps you're right," he said.
He was like you; he was a great bárin, a great noble, and yet he helped the peasants." Paul turned round sharply and shook the man off. "Go," he said, "with the starosta and get what I tell you. A great, strong fellow like you has no business on his knees to any man! I will not help you unless you help yourself. You are a lazy good-for-nothing. Get out!"
"Did you ever hear tell of one Colleen dhas dhun as she's called, known by the name Una or Oona O'Brien, daughter to one Bodagh Buie O'Brien, the richest man, barin' a born gentleman, in the three parishes?"
"I say, Misther Burke, are you to see your son worse mounted at the Herringstown Hunt than any other gentleman among them? Have you no pride? "No, thank God! barin' that I'm an honest man an' no gentleman; an', as for Hycy, Rosha " "Mrs. Burke, father, if you please," interposed Hycy; "remember who your wife is at all events."
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