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He was leaning against the high, old-fashioned mantel-piece, which had seen better days and company and smoking a cigarette. He was clad in a cheap, ready-made suit; for his heart was in his business, and he scraped and saved every kopeck.
'Don't you pay them anything, he says, 'not a kopeck; they'll beat you, and let them beat you, says he, 'but you put up with it, and I'll pay you ten roubles every Saturday for it. So on the Saturday evening the workmen come to settle up in the usual way; the foreman says to them: 'Nothing! Well, word for word, as the master said, they begin swearing and using their fists. . . . They beat him and they kick him . . . you know, they are a set of men brutalized by hunger they beat him till he is senseless, and then they go each on his way.
All is not gold that glitters, but it is a wise child that keeps the stopper in his bottle of testing acid. Where Broadway skirts the corner of the square presided over by George the Veracious is the Little Rialto. Here stand the actors of that quarter, and this is their shibboleth: "'Nit, says I to Frohman, 'you can't touch me for a kopeck less than two-fifty per, and out I walks."
I assume that the government price is known to your excellency?" "But I am willing to take two hundred rubles a pound. I can't take a kopeck less, and even so I am making a reduction of nearly a hundred rubles the pound." "All right!" assented Shadursky. "That will amount to " he went on, knitting his brows, "forty-five pounds at two hundred rubles a pound "
And it isn't the kopeck, but since it is mine, no one dares touch it unless I throw it away myself. Eh! The devil take them! Well, tell me where have you been, what have you seen?" The boy sat down beside his father and told him in detail all the impressions of that day. Ignat listened, fixedly watching the animated face of his son, and the eyebrows of the big man contracted pensively.
Voronok used to give both classes pamphlets that cost a kopeck and were intensely strict in their party purity. The younger of the working men also used to come to Voronok's house. There were still others, a ragged, grumbling lot, who appeared to carry an air of eternal injury with them, as if they had lost all capacity for smiling and jesting.
I call him one thing and another, a Jew, and a scurvy rascal, and I make a pig's ear out of my coat tail, and catch him by his Jewish curls. He doesn't take offence." "But he is a slave! For a kopeck he is ready to put up with any insult!" "Come, come, come . . . that's enough! Peace and concord!" Champoun powders his tear-stained face and goes with Kamyshev to the dining-room.
Everyone used to call at the inn; only perhaps a landowner's coach, drawn by six home-bred horses, would roll majestically by, which did not prevent either the coachman or the groom on the footboard from looking with peculiar feeling and attention at the little porch so familiar to them; or some poor devil in a wretched little cart and with three five-kopeck pieces in the bag in his bosom would urge on his weary nag when he reached the prosperous inn, and would hasten on to some night's lodging in the hamlets that lie by the high road in a peasant's hut, where he would find nothing but bread and hay, but, on the other hand, would not have to pay an extra kopeck.
"Never!" said Ivan, swallowing another glass of brandy, "never will Ivan want for money as long as there is a kopeck in my lady's purse." "I did not find her so liberal," said Gregory bitterly. "Oh, you forget, my friend; you know well she does not reckon with her friends: remember the strokes of the knout." "I have no wish to speak about that," said Gregory.
All, of which she had not even dared dream in her early youth, when she herself had yet been a prostitute of the rank and file all had now come to her of itself, one in addition to the other: peaceful old age, a house a brimming cup on one of the quiet, cozy streets, almost in the centre of the city, the adored daughter Birdie, who if not to-day then tomorrow must marry a respected man, an engineer, a house-owner, and member of the city-council; provided for as she was with a respectable dowry and magnificent valuables ... Now it was possible peacefully, without hurrying, with gusto, to dine and sup on sweet things, for which Anna Markovna had always nourished a great weakness; to drink after dinner good, home-made, strong cherry-brandy; and of evenings to play a bit at "preference," for kopeck stakes, with esteemed elderly ladies of her acquaintance, who, even although they never as much as let it appear that they knew the real trade of the little old woman, did in reality know it very well; and not only did not condemn her business but even bore themselves with respect toward those enormous percentages which she earned upon her capital.
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