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Updated: May 19, 2025
"The head man and the village priest rejoiced, and the woman took the dead body home and washed it, and clothed it in white linen, and she ordered a three-rouble coffin covered with purple cloth. "But she was a very poor woman, and when she had paid for the grave she had no money to pay for singers and for prayers. "'God will have mercy, she said. 'And belike he was a good man, a pilgrim.
So one morning he prepared to go to the village to buy the sheep-skins. He put on over his shirt his wife's wadded nankeen jacket, and over that he put his own cloth coat. He took the three-rouble note in his pocket, cut himself a stick to serve as a staff, and started off after breakfast.
The man and his wife had but one sheepskin coat between them for winter wear, and even that was torn to tatters, and this was the second year he had been wanting to buy sheep-skins for a new coat. Before winter Simon saved up a little money: a three-rouble note lay hidden in his wife's box, and five roubles and twenty kopeks were owed him by customers in the village.
The deacon's hand in a plush cuff accepted a three-rouble note unobtrusively, and the deacon said he would put it down in the register, and his new boots creaking jauntily over the flagstones of the empty church, he went to the altar. A moment later he peeped out thence and beckoned to Levin. Thought, till then locked up, began to stir in Levin's head, but he made haste to drive it away.
Late in the evening Ardalion came to me and announced that to his annoyance he could not find the old woman. I handed him, however, by way of encouragement, a three-rouble note. The next morning he appeared again in my room with a beaming countenance; the old woman had consented to see me. 'Hi! boy! shouted Ardalion in the corridor; 'Hi! apprentice!
"Get on, get on!" he said to the driver, putting his head out of the window, and pulling a three-rouble note out of his pocket he handed it to the man as he looked round. The driver's hand fumbled with something at the lamp, the whip cracked, and the carriage rolled rapidly along the smooth highroad.
Don't wag your tongue without reason. You had better ask what sort of man " "And you tell me what you've done with the money?" Simon found the pocket of the jacket, drew out the three-rouble note, and unfolded it. "Here is the money. Trifonof did not pay, but promises to pay soon."
Just before dinner on that day, Nejdanov went down to the theatre to book a ticket, but found a large crowd already waiting there. I don't. Give me a ticket for the stalls, please. Make haste, I'm in a hurry!" "Excuse me, sir, I want a ticket for the stalls myself!" Nejdanov exclaimed, throwing down a three-rouble note, all the ready money he possessed.
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