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Out of all the persons who had promised me financial aid, and who had even stated the number of rubles, not a single one handed to me for distribution among the poor one solitary ruble. But according to the pledges which had been given me, I could reckon on about three thousand rubles; and out of all these people, not one remembered our former discussions, or gave me a single kopek.
Semyon looked at them, was about to take the kopek, but thought better of it, pulled off his hat, crossed himself, and walked on, leaving the old man the three-kopek piece. I was fully acquainted with Semyon's financial condition. He had no property at home at all. The money which he had laid by on the day when he gave three kopeks amounted to six rubles and fifty kopeks.
When he came to himself, on the third day, he looked long at all the corners of his hut; but in vain did he endeavour to recollect; his memory was like a miser’s pocket, from which you cannot entice a quarter of a kopek. Stretching himself, he heard something clash at his feet. He looked two bags of gold.
Out of all the persons who had promised me financial aid, and who had even stated the number of rubles, not a single one handed to me for distribution among the poor one solitary ruble. But according to the pledges which had been given me, I could reckon on about three thousand rubles; and out of all these people, not one remembered our former discussions, or gave me a single kopek.
This robust and artless lad pleased him from the first. "Have you come from the hay-harvest?" "Yes. I've mowed a verst and earned a kopek! Business is bad! There are so many hands! The starving folks have come have spoiled the prices. They used to give sixty kopeks at Koubagne. As much as that! And formerly, they say, three, four, even five rubles." "Formerly!
Pay up your old debts, and for my niece here a million three hundred thousand! I won't sell her cheaper. LYUBÍM KÁRPYCH. Not a kopek! RAZLYULYÁYEV. Aha, Lyubím Kárpych! Don't you take any less! GORDÉY KÁRPYCH comes in. The same with GORDÉY KÁRPYCH GORDÉY KÁRPYCH. So you are here! What are you doing in my house? Clear out! KÓRSHUNOV. Wait a bit, Gordéy Kárpych; don't turn him out! Why turn him out?
Petersburg; a fine opinion of us he'll take away with him! KRASNÓV. I tell you again, that you should dismiss him and his opinions from your mind. The whole affair isn't worth a kopek. I think that whether he's alive or no, it's all the same to us. TATYÁNA. It may be all the same for you, but not so for us. Sister and I have promised to visit him and we want to go to-day.
When he came to himself, on the third day, he looked long at all the corners of his hut; but in vain did he endeavor to recollect; his memory was like a miser's pocket, from which you cannot entice a quarter of a kopek. Stretching himself, he heard something clash at his feet. He looked, . . . two bags of gold.
PODKHALYÚZIN. Ah, Samsón Sílych, what's that you're saying! BOLSHÓV. What! pay out money? Where did you get that notion? I will rather burn everything in the fire, before I'll give them a kopek. Transfer the merchandise, sell the notes, let 'em pilfer, let anybody steal who wants to; but I'm not going to pay a kopek.
Semyon, the Vladimir peasant, who had a wife and two children in Moscow, halted also, pulled round the skirt of his kaftan, and got out his purse, and from this slender purse he extracted, after some fumbling, three kopeks, handed it to the old man, and asked for two kopeks in change. The old man exhibited in his hand two three-kopek pieces and one kopek.
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