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Updated: June 11, 2025
Petka, don't budge, I'll kill you.... Here's the watch!" Trofimitch held out the watch to me, but did not let go of it. He pondered, looked down, then fixed the same intent, stupid stare upon me. Then all at once bawled at the top of his voice: "Where is it? Where's your rouble?" "Here it is, here it is," I responded hurriedly and I snatched the coin out of my pocket.
I have also brought two bottles of vodka." "That is bad, Luka." "The two only cost a rouble," Luka said calmly; "they may be very useful to us; and I bought more tea and tobacco than we said." The men who had carried the flour had received a few kopecks for their trouble, and had gone off as soon as they had laid down their burdens.
See, we have skins for sale if there is anyone in the village who will buy them." "The man at the spirit-shop at the end of the village will buy them," the policeman said; "he gives a rouble a dozen for them." "Thank you," and with a Russian salutation they walked on. "Of course he suspects what we are," Godfrey said to his companion; "but there was no fear of his being too inquisitive.
Here she was met with reproaches for forgetting God now that she was so highly educated, for sleeping too late for the service, and for not coming downstairs to break the fast, and they all clasped their hands and exclaimed with perfect sincerity that she was lovely, wonderful; and she believed it, laughed, kissed them, gave one a rouble, another three or five according to their position.
"And this mysticism that they tell us about in England. Are you mystical, Rat? Have you a beautiful soul?" He sniffed and blew his nose with his hand. "I don't know what you're talking about, Barin I suppose you haven't a rouble or two on you?" "No, I haven't," I answered. He looked up and down the bridge as though he were wondering whether an attack on me was worth while.
Some took me for a Russian and some little boys ran after me and asked for a rouble. A group of women agreed that I was Spanish. The train for Milan goes right through to Venice, so, being momentarily independent of the British military authorities, I decided to spend a few hours there on my way to the Front. The carriage was full of Italian officers, chiefly Cavalry, Flying Corps and Infantry.
"He is constitutionally inert, and his imagination has carried him through too many unfought wars for him to throw down the gage now. He smokes cigarettes and dreams of endless peace. I had many talks with him last year and found him impatient of any subject but the redemption of the paper rouble!" But his mind had never crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
"An eel-pout?" says the master, and his eyes begin to glisten. "Get him out quickly then." "You'll give us half a rouble for it presently if we oblige you . . . . A huge eel-pout, as fat as a merchant's wife. . . . It's worth half a rouble, your honour, for the trouble. . . . Don't squeeze him, Lubim, don't squeeze him, you'll spoil him! Push him up from below!
Into one purse they will stuff rouble pieces, into another half roubles, and into a third tchetvertachki , although from their mien you would suppose that the cupboard contained only linen and nightshirts and skeins of wool and the piece of shabby material which is destined should the old gown become scorched during the baking of holiday cakes and other dainties, or should it fall into pieces of itself to become converted into a new dress.
They looked with a new feeling, almost with astonishment, at her bare, red, thick arms, at the bed, still crumpled, at the old, greasy, paper rouble, which Kitty showed them, having taken it out of her stocking. Kitty could tell them nothing.
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