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I tell you as in the presence of the Creator! There are ten of us, as you see. And there are three of you. And I, Yuzitch, and Gretcka deserve double shares!" added Pacomius Borisovitch persuasively. "Gretcka deserves nothing at all for catching me by the throat," decided Sergei Antonitch Kovroff. "Mr. Kovroff!" began Pacomius again. "You and I are gentlemen " "What! What did you say?"
'Four greys, and no white. 'Three, Nikolai Eremyitch. 'Three and a half, and not a farthing less. 'Three, Nikolai Eremyitch. 'You're not talking sense, Gavrila Antonitch. 'My, what a pig-headed fellow! muttered the merchant. 'Then I'd better arrange it with the lady herself. 'That's as you like, answered the fat man; 'far better, I should say.
To borrow from Anton Antonitch seemed to me monstrous and shameful. I did not sleep for two or three nights. Indeed, I did not sleep well at that time, I was in a fever; I had a vague sinking at my heart or else a sudden throbbing, throbbing, throbbing!
'Then up there at the house, six and a half, Nikolai Eremyitch; the corn will be sold for six and a half? 'Six and a half, as we said already. 'That's what you must say, Gavrila Antonitch. 'And now, allow me.
'Wonderful the young green crops this year, one may say, he began again; 'I've been going about everywhere admiring them. All the way from Voronezh they've come up wonderfully, first-class, one may say. 'The crops are pretty fair, certainly, answered the head-clerk; 'but you know the saying, Gavrila Antonitch, autumn bids fair, but spring may be foul.
I had to call on Anton Antonitch, however, on Tuesday his at-home day; so I had always to time my passionate desire to embrace humanity so that it might fall on a Tuesday. This Anton Antonitch lived on the fourth storey in a house in Five Corners, in four low-pitched rooms, one smaller than the other, of a particularly frugal and sallow appearance.
The first person I meet in the street is bound to be my second, just as he would be bound to pull a drowning man out of water. The most eccentric things may happen. Even if I were to ask the director himself to be my second tomorrow, he would be bound to consent, if only from a feeling of chivalry, and to keep the secret! Anton Antonitch...."
On the other side of the partition, in the office, they were talking in subdued voices. Unconsciously I began to listen. 'Quite so, quite so, Nikolai Eremyitch, one voice was saying; 'quite so. 'You may believe me, Gavrila Antonitch, replied the fat man's voice: 'don't I know how things are done here? Judge for yourself.
First of all I had at once to repay what I had borrowed the day before from Simonov. I resolved on a desperate measure: to borrow fifteen roubles straight off from Anton Antonitch. As luck would have it he was in the best of humours that morning, and gave it to me at once, on the first asking.
I am I, Lieutenant Sergei Antonitch Kovroff, of the Chernovarski Dragoons! Do you hear? I am captain of the Golden Band," he said proudly and haughtily, scrutinizing the company with his confident gaze.
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