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Updated: June 11, 2025
It is necessary to begin from the beginning rather than from the middle; from a kopeck rather than from a rouble; from the bottom rather than from the top. For only thus will a man get to know the men and conditions among which his career will have to be carved.
'Neighbour, he cried, raising his voice, 'sell me the cow! 'I will sell her to you, cried Grochowski, also striking the table. 'I'll give you...thirty-one roubles...as I love you. Grochowski embraced him. 'Brother...give me...thirty...and four paper roubles and a silver rouble for the halter.
Bersenyev snatched up his cap, thrust a rouble into the tailor's hand, and at once set off with him post haste to Insarov's lodgings. He found him lying on the sofa, unconscious and not undressed. His face was terribly changed. Bersenyev at once ordered the people of the house to undress him and put him to bed, while he rushed off himself and returned with a doctor.
They laid her back on the pillow. "What, the priest? I don't want him. You haven't got a rouble to spare. I have no sins. God must forgive me without that. He knows how I have suffered.... And if He won't forgive me, I don't care!" She sank more and more into uneasy delirium.
"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.
Mustafa raised his eyebrows and said in a shrill voice, with a sing-song intonation: "The mutability of destiny!" Almer looked at his grave face and went off into peals of laughter. "Well, give him a rouble!" said Frolov. "He is making his fortune out of the mutability of destiny. He is only kept here for the sake of those two words. Drink, Mustafa! You will make a gre-eat rascal!
For one rouble I shall buy me a new pair of shoes, for I scarcely know whether my old ones will take me to the office tomorrow morning. Also, a new neck-scarf is indispensable, seeing that the old one has now passed its first year; but, since you have promised to make of your old apron not only a scarf, but also a shirt-front, I need think no more of the article in question.
You see that they are a bit worn, but they'll last a couple of months, for it's foreign work and foreign leather; the secretary of the English Embassy sold them last week he had only worn them six days, but he was very short of cash. Price a rouble and a half. A bargain?" "But perhaps they won't fit," observed Nastasya. "Not fit?
"A quadrille is half a rouble; but ordinary dances are thirty kopecks. Is it all right then?" "Well, of course...if you please...I don't begrudge it," he agreed, pretending to be generous... "Whom do you speak to?" "Why, over there to the musicians."
He smiled, when he paid the labourer a rouble for the corn, including the sack; he smiled, when the girl handed over the goose and got a bottle of sour beer in return; he smiled, when he listened to the gospodarze discussing the purchase of the land, and he smiled when he paid old Gryb two roubles per cent., and took two roubles from young Gryb for every ten he lent him.
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