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Updated: June 2, 2025
The crafty Madame Riviere incited Bomback to risk twenty-five roubles at quinze; he lost and paid pleasantly, and only got a kiss for his money. Zaira, who was delighted to be able to watch over me and my fidelity, jested pleasantly on the Frenchwoman and the complaisance of her lover.
I am a poet, madam, a poet in soul, and might be getting a thousand roubles at a time from a publisher, yet I am forced to live in a pig pail. Why? Why, madam? To my mind Russia is a freak of nature and nothing else." "Can you really say nothing more definite?" "I can read you the poem, 'The Cockroach, madam." "Wha-a-t?" "Madam, I'm not mad yet!
We carried him into the waiting-room, with the blood pouring down a terrible business and all the while he kept on asking anxiously for his foot; he had twenty-five roubles in his boot and did not want to lose them." "Keep to your story," said Bourkin. "After the death of his wife," Ivan Ivanich continued, after a long pause, "my brother began to look out for an estate.
“Mamma has just told me all about the two hundred roubles, Alexey Fyodorovitch, and your taking them to that poor officer ... and she told me all the awful story of how he had been insulted ... and you know, although mamma muddles things ... she always rushes from one thing to another ... I cried when I heard. Well, did you give him the money and how is that poor man getting on?”
Chichikov's discomfiture was complete. "And, would you believe it, your Excellency," went on Nozdrev, "but this fellow actually said to me, 'Sell me your dead souls! Why, I laughed till I nearly became as dead as the souls. And, behold, no sooner do I arrive here than I am told that he has bought three million roubles' worth of peasants for transferment! For transferment, indeed!
He had not had time to take two steps before another woman with a baby caught him up, then an old woman, then another young one. All of them spoke of their poverty, and asked for help. Nekhludoff gave them the 60 roubles all in small notes which he had with him, and, terribly sad at heart, turned home, i.e., to the foreman's house.
The stewards of both steal from their masters; but that of Ivan Ivan'itch steals with difficulty, and to a very limited extent, whereas that of Victor Alexandr'itch steals regularly and methodically, and counts his gains, not by kopecks, but by roubles. Though the two estates are of about the same size and value, they give a very different revenue.
“Give me five roubles,” he whispered to Mitya. “I’ll stake something at faro, too, he he!” “Capital! Splendid! Take ten, here!” Again he took all the notes out of his pocket and picked out one for ten roubles. “And if you lose that, come again, come again.” “Very good,” Maximov whispered joyfully, and he ran back again. Mitya, too, returned, apologizing for having kept them waiting.
Papa called him a brave fellow, mamma gave him five roubles, and I felt as though I could fall at his feet. And he had a simple face stupid-looking even and he took to drink later on.... 'I gave a penny to-day to a beggar woman, and she said to me, "Why are you so sorrowful?" I never suspected I looked sorrowful. I think it must come from being alone, always alone, for better, for worse!
Is it true that you steal at every mass ten roubles out of the church box?" Zubov had not expected the attack, and he remained as petrified, with his hand uplifted. But he immediately began to scream in a shrill voice, as he jumped up quickly: "Ah! You turn against me also? Against me, too?"
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