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Updated: May 14, 2025
An hour later Malahin and Yasha, laden with bags and boxes, go downstairs from the hotel room to the front door to get into a sledge and drive to the station. They are seen off by the hotel-keeper, the waiter, and various women. The old man is touched. He thrusts ten-kopeck pieces in all directions, and says in a sing-song voice: "Good by, good health to you!
He had no cap on, and his bare feet were thrust into goloshes; in his hand he had a little bag of coppers. "Give me a kopeck!" he said to the doctor, smiling, and shivering with cold. Andrey Yefimitch, who could never refuse anyone anything, gave him a ten-kopeck piece. "How bad that is!" he thought, looking at the Jew's bare feet with their thin red ankles. "Why, it's wet."
He took his purse out of his pocket, turned his back to Yegorushka, fumbled for a long time among the smaller coins, and, finding a ten-kopeck piece, gave it to Yegorushka. Father Christopher, without haste, blessed Yegorushka. "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. . . . Study," he said. "Work hard, my lad. If I die, remember me in your prayers.
Why didn't you say so? And the bandit, hanging onto the two roules, returned the fifty-kopeck piece to the trembling child and added a ten-kopeck piece out of his own pocket." "Something quite as funny happened to me two winters ago, at Moscow," said la belle Onoto. "I had just stepped out of the door when I was stopped by a hooligan. 'Give me twenty kopecks, said the hooligan.
"See here, batuchka: if I take a ten-kopeck piece a month on each ruble, I ought to receive fifteen kopecks on a ruble and a half, the interest being payable in advance. Then, as you ask me to wait another month for the repayment of the two rubles I have already lent you, you owe me twenty kopecks more, which makes a total of five and thirty.
Here is a ten-kopeck piece from me, too. . . ." Yegorushka kissed his hand, and shed tears; something whispered in his heart that he would never see the old man again. "I have applied at the high school already," said Ivan Ivanitch in a voice as though there were a corpse in the room.
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