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One day, when he had fallen sick on account of overwork, he was lying on the bow of the steamer, and when Foma asked him why he was thus ruining himself, Ilya replied roughly and sternly: "Because every copeck is more necessary to me than a hundred roubles to you. That's why!" And, saying this, the old man turned his body, which was burning with pain, with its back to Foma.
The surplus in the case of that company was to be applied to paying debts. "Not a copeck," said my informant, "will the stockholders receive in the shape of dividends." I did not obtain any full and clear information touching the navigation of the Volga. The steamboats run from Tver, on the Moscow and St. Petersburg railway, to Astrachan, at the mouth of the river.
The room was empty, dark, deserted save for an old woman, half-witted, who was crouching on the floor before the sacred Icon, rocking herself and mumbling. They questioned her, but she was deaf and answered at random: "Eh, gracious sirs my lords eh? So old so poor, so wretched! See, there is nothing! A copeck, for the love of heaven half a copeck a quarter, only a little quarter! Ah!
And then I've heard a clever anecdote: A company was sitting on the sea-shore philosophizing at length upon life. And a Jew said to them: 'Gentlemen, why do you employ so many different words? I'll tell it to you all at once: Our life is not worth a single copeck, even as this stormy sea! "Eh, the devil take you!" said Foma. "Good-bye. I am going." "Go ahead!
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