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I have many thousands of sheep and cattle. If you do not take it I shall be offended, and shall think that in some way we have displeased you. A thousand roubles are nothing to me; I have given as much for one suit of furs for my wife. You must take this; if you ever attempt to escape again, you will need money."
'A girl, whispered Zoska, with her eyes fixed on Maciek, 'she is two years old... yes, he can have her, if he likes. 'She'd be a deal of trouble to me, muttered the labourer, 'all the same, it's a pity. 'Take her, repeated Zoska, 'Slimak is rich, you are rich.... 'Oh yes, Maciek is rich, laughed Slimakowa, 'he drinks through six roubles in one Sunday.
"Here, I ought to give him the fifteen hundred roubles!" she thought, but for some reason this idea seemed to her incongruous and insulting to Pimenov. "I am sure you are aching all over after your work, and you come to the door with me," she said as they went down the stairs. "Go home." But he did not catch her words.
"Possibly your Excellency, though animated with the noblest feelings of humanity, may, in the fulfilment of the duty your high position imposes, deem it necessary to call my attention to the existence of certain restrictions which, on account of the pecuniary advantages the State derives from them, cannot easily be removed; such, for instance, as the meat tax, which annually amounts, to 300,000 silver roubles.
By the way, she must be 'une dame aventuriere', to receive a note for 10,000 roubles from a man whom she had known but three days! to take a contract of marriage, knowing he was married already; and to engage herself to follow him to England. I suppose this is not the first adventure of the sort which she has had.
I have not decided yet what I shall do. I had two or three hundred roubles when I was sent off here, and as I only spent four or five on the road, I have plenty to last me for some time for tea and tobacco." "But how do you get them?" "The warders smuggle them in. It is an understood thing, and there is no real objection to it, though they are very strict about bringing in spirits.
'I have money, put in Elena. 'Eighty roubles. 'Well, that's not much, observed Insarov; 'but everything's a help. 'But I can get more. I will borrow. I will ask mamma.... No, I won't ask mamma for any.... But I can sell my watch.... I have earrings, too, and two bracelets... and lace. 'Money's not the chief difficulty, Elena; the passport; your passport, how about that? 'Yes, how about it?
D'Aragon set out for Warsaw the next day, but he unfortunately found the place occupied by more cunning Greeks than himself. In six months they had relieved him of his hundred thousand roubles, but such is the lot of gamesters; no craft can be more wretched than theirs. Heleine followed him without taking leave of a noble army of creditors.
Merely tell me, my own darling, that I am not to shrink from heavy interest, and I will not shrink from it, I will not shrink from it nay, I will shrink from nothing. I will ask for forty roubles, to begin with. That will not be much, will it, little Barbara? Yet will any one trust me even with that sum at the first asking?
He said that the police were watching him; that he could not get by the jail, and, perhaps, even hard labour and the gallows; that it was necessary for him to disappear abroad for several months. But mainly, what he persisted in especially strongly, was some tremendous fantastic business, in which he stood to make several hundred thousands of roubles.
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