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'But the project really was not a bad one, and it might have been of immense service. 'And where did Kurbyev go to? asked Lezhnyov. 'Oh, he is now in Siberia, he has become a gold-digger. And you will see he will make himself a position; he will get on. 'Perhaps; but then you will not be likely to make a position for yourself, it seems. 'Well, that can't be helped!
'You will laugh at it, Mihail. 'Why should I? No, I will not laugh. 'We resolved to make a river in the K province fit for navigation, said Rudin with an embarrassed smile. 'Really! This Kurbyev was a capitalist, then? 'He was poorer than I, responded Rudin, and his grey head sank on his breast. Lezhnyov began to laugh, but he stopped suddenly and took Rudin by the hand.
In the first place the millowners would not meet us favourably at all; and more than that, we could not turn the water out of its course without machinery, and we had not money enough for machinery. For six months we lived in mud huts. Kurbyev lived on dry bread, and I, too, had not much to eat. However, I don't complain of that; the scenery there is something magnificent.
I became friendly with he was much talked of at one time a man called Kurbyev. 'Oh, I never heard of him. But, really, Dmitri, with your intelligence, how was it you did not suspect that to be a business man was not the business for you? 'I know, brother, that it was not; but, then, what is the business for me? But if you had seen Kurbyev! Do not, pray, fancy him as some empty-headed chatterer.
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