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In competition they reached such a state, that they lowered their passenger rates for the third class from seventy-five kopecks to five, three, two, and even one kopeck. In the end, ready to fall from exhaustion in the unequal struggle, one of the steamship companies offered a free passage to all the third-class passengers.
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 "
Also, do not consort overmuch with your comrades, for they will do you no good; but, should you do so, then make friends with the richer of them, since one day they may be useful to you. Also, never entertain or treat any one, but see that every one entertains and treats YOU. Lastly, and above all else, keep and save your every kopeck. To save money is the most important thing in life.
Millions are easily come by, for a millionaire has no need to resort to crooked ways; the way lies straight before him, and he needs but to annex whatsoever he comes across. Consequently, what interest will he derive from a thousand roubles? Why, ten or twenty per cent. at the least." "And it is beyond measure marvellous that the whole should have started from a single kopeck."
"This," said old Peter, "is a story against wanting more than enough." Long ago, near the shore of the blue sea, an old man lived with his old woman in a little old hut made of earth and moss and logs. They never had a rouble to spend. A rouble! they never had a kopeck.
Can you buy them back? or the decency, honesty, cleanliness, youth, I pawned, for filth and more filth? I am saturated with it. I reek with it. It embraces me with octopus arms. Every kopeck, every rouble, has gone to tighten that embrace. It is not to be loosened. I am hell-bound for eternity. And you speak to me of art! "Leave me, Ivan Gregoriev, to my own. You can never know me. I hate you now.
It'll be no easier, starting in three months hence, and with a debt on my hands, than now will it? I've been so pampered all my life, that I declare it's going to be absolutely a pleasure to appreciate the value of a kopeck I have earned. Don't you know, Vladimir Vassilyitch, that most of us would be infinitely stronger men if we had to act men's parts? Bah!
"No, no, no. . . . You must put down a kopeck." "You stupids. A rouble is worth more than a kopeck anyway," the schoolboy explains. "Whoever wins can give me change." "No, please! Go away!" The fifth form schoolboy shrugs his shoulders, and goes into the kitchen to get change from the servants. It appears there is not a single kopeck in the kitchen.
"She took me although I was but a poor Talmud scholar without a kopeck that I could call my own. Joseph will succeed. He has ambition and talent." Kathinka kissed her father, affectionately. "Then you are satisfied with my choice?" she asked. "Yes, my dear, I am content. When Reb Wolf, the schadchen, comes for his answer we will know just what to tell him."
He gives his companions water, and covers them up when they are asleep; he promises each of them to bring him back a kopeck, and to make him a new cap; he feeds with a spoon his neighbour on the left, who is paralyzed. He acts in this way, not from compassion nor from any considerations of a humane kind, but through imitation, unconsciously dominated by Gromov, his neighbour on the right hand.
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