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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Five kopecks for a cabbage, and a tiny little one, too," she said, propping her chin on her hand. "Isn't it dear? And I haven't had the money for my sewing yet." "Who owes it you?" asked David. "Why, the merchant's wife who lives beyond the rampart." "The fat woman who goes about in a green blouse?" "Yes, yes." "I say, she is fat! She can hardly breathe for fat.
In fact, from my experience, they reverse the established order of things and turn night into day. A troika is a superb affair. It makes the tiny sledges which take the place of cabs, and are used for all ordinary purposes, look even more like toys than usual. But the sledges are great fun, and so cheap that it is an extravagance to walk. A course costs only twenty kopecks ten cents.
"But if you've come to a respectable establishment, the regular price is half a rouble. We don't take anything extra. There, that's better. Twenty kopecks change coming to you?" "Yes, change, without fail," firmly emphasized the German teacher. "And I would request of you that nobody else should enter." "No, no, no, what are you saying," Zociya began to bustle near the door.
He secured a ticket for me to get dinner in the Metropole. This ticket I had to surrender when I got a room in the National. The dinner consisted of a plate of soup, and a very small portion of something else. There are National Kitchens in different parts of the town supplying similar meals. Glasses of weak tea were sold at 30 kopecks each, without sugar.
One of them stopped a young girl before Varsovie station. The girl, frightened, immediately held out her purse to him, with two roubles and fifty kopecks in it. The hooligan took it all. 'Goodness, cried she, 'I have nothing now to take my train with. 'How much is it? asked the hooligan. 'Sixty kopecks. 'Sixty kopecks!
The waiter a young fellow with a dirty face; pugnosed; as dirty and greasy in all his person as though he had just been pulled out of a cesspool, wiped his lips and asked hoarsely: "How many kopecks' bread?" "As much as it comes to." Then he started laughing: "Bring as much as possible we'll reckon it up later... and some bread cider!"
So he must drive at full speed, and he had not the money for horses. He had forty kopecks, and that was all, all that was left after so many years of prosperity! But he had at home an old silver watch which had long ceased to go. He snatched it up and carried it to a Jewish watchmaker who had a shop in the market-place. The Jew gave him six roubles for it.
"The carp is a grand fish! The carp's the fish to keep, your honour, plague take him! You can keep him for a year in a pail and he'll live! It's a week since I caught these very fish. I caught them, sir, in Pererva, and have come from there on foot. The carp are two kopecks each, the eels are three, and the minnows are ten kopecks the dozen, plague take them! Five kopecks' worth of minnows, sir?
'Oh, I never asked her, sir.... One rouble twenty kopecks in silver. Ivan Afanasiitch sank into meditation. 'Kvas and effervescing drinks, pursued Praskovia Ivanovna, holding the counters apart on the frame not with her first, but her third finger, 'half a rouble in silver. Sugar and rolls for tea, half a rouble. Four packets of tobacco bought by your orders, eighty kopecks in silver.
He was fumbling for the local pass with a sinking heart when the soldier whispered, "Twenty kopecks and go ahead." He passed in. The loss of his money and the unavoidable expenses had reduced his resources so much that he found it necessary to continue the journey on foot. He slept at Irbite, but was up early, and passed out of an opposite gate unchallenged. Now began a long and weary tramp.
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