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'They're too tight for me; he was a thin devil. One Cossack bought the coat for a ruble and another gave the price of two pails of vodka for the dagger. 'Drink, lads! I'll stand you a pail! said Luke. 'I'll bring it myself from the village. 'And cut up the trousers into kerchiefs for the girls! said Nazarka. The Cossacks burst out laughing. 'Have done laughing! said the corporal.
"There is the watch," he continued, opening a drawer: "if it's yours, be kind enough to take it, but why should I take the ruble?" "Take the ruble, Trofimytsch, you fool!" sobbed his wife. "Have you gone crazy, old man? Not a single farthing have we left in our pockets if we were to turn them inside out, and here you are putting on airs! They've cut off your pigtail, but you're an old woman still.
PODKHALYÚZIN. Daddy, why do you favor me? I'm not worth it. I'm not worth it! My poor face would positively crack a mirror. BOLSHÓV. What of your face! Here, I transfer all the property to you; so that afterwards the creditors will be sorry that they didn't take twenty-five kopeks on the ruble. PODKHALYÚZIN. You can bet they'll be sorry, sir!
It is the same with money. I possess a magic, inexhaustible ruble; I cut off my coupons, and have retired from all the business of the world. Whom do I injure, I, the most inoffensive and kindest of men?
"It will fit better still when it sets to your body," said Karataev, still admiring his handiwork. "You'll be nice and comfortable...." "Thanks, thanks, old fellow.... But the bits left over?" said the Frenchman again and smiled. He took out an assignation ruble note and gave it to Karataev. "But give me the pieces that are over."
She displayed her jealousy so much that finally Bibikov became angry and quarrelled with her; then Anna Stepanova left him and went to Tula. For three days no one knew where she was. At last, on the third day, she appeared at Yassenky, at five o'clock in the afternoon, with a little parcel. At the railway station she gave the coachman a letter for Bibikov, and gave him a ruble for a tip.
"'Come here, I said to the sentry. 'Look to your gun and unhorse that gallant for me and you shall have a silver ruble. "'Very well, your honour, only he won't keep still. "'Tell him to! I said, with a laugh. "'Hey, friend! cried the sentry, waving his hand. 'Wait a bit. What are you spinning round like a humming-top for?
"Do not speak so loud." He walked swiftly away, but he dropped a ruble into Anna's hand as he passed her by. "For luck," he murmured. "May the little saints look after you on the big waters." They boarded the ship, and the Dream gave them a courage that surprised them. There were others going aboard, and Ivan and Anna felt that those others were also persons who possessed dreams.
"She lies; I never entered " Bochkova began, but she was stopped. "In their presence I took four ten ruble bills," she continued. "And while taking this money, did the prisoner see how much money there was?" asked the prosecutor. Maslova shuddered as soon as the prosecutor began to speak. She could not tell why, but she felt that he was her enemy.
They'll put you in the pen for a year and a half; they'll have a soldier lead you through the streets every week, and if you don't watch out, they'll even transfer you to prison: so you'd be glad to give even half a ruble. You don't know where to hide yourself from mere shame. AGRAFÉNA KONDRÁTYEVNA enters with vodka; TISHKA brings in relishes, and goes out.
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