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And now he also recalled how one day in the office Yefim had said to the clerk who hired the sailors: "Some Lopukhin peasants have come here to hire themselves out, so don't give them more than ten roubles a month. Their place was burned down to ashes last summer, and they are now in dire need they'll work for ten roubles."
You had better drop it, let it stay in the mud and step on it so as not to soil your feet. As to the sound board, lift it up and place it in the sun; if it can be of no use to you, someone else may avail himself of it. That's the way it is, my son! Listen to me and remember. There is no reason why Yefim should be pitied. He is a capable fellow, he knows his value.
Now looking at the dark-eyed working woman with admiration, Foma distinctly felt just that rude inclination toward her, and he was ashamed and afraid of something. And Yefim, standing beside him, said admonitively: "There you are staring at the woman, so that I cannot keep silence any longer.
Don't you think so?" he asked, looking firmly at Pavel. "Yes, the tine has come." The answer was accompanied by a smile. "But it's hard. You must know what to say to soldiers, and how to say it." "We'll learn; we'll know how," Yefim said. "And if the superiors catch you at it, they may shoot you down," Pavel concluded, looking curiously at Yefim.
"I? Not long ago a new man came here, a cousin of Yakob. He's sick with consumption; but he's learned a thing or two. Shall we call him?" "Call him! Why not?" answered Sofya. Rybin looked at her, screwing up his eyes. "Yefim," he said in a lowered voice, "you go over to him, and tell him to come here in the evening."
"A famous eel-pout," mutters Yefim, scratching under his shoulder-blades. "I'll be bound it weighs ten pounds." "Mm! . . . Yes," the master assents. "The liver is fairly swollen! It seems to stand out! A-ach!"
But at last they left him alone and gave up taunting him with being a “regular girl,” and what’s more they looked upon it with compassion as a weakness. He was always one of the best in the class but was never first. At the time of Yefim Petrovitch’s death Alyosha had two more years to complete at the provincial gymnasium.
Yefim had talismans, but there was no getting anything out of him, the bald devil. He kept them, so that no one could get them." The young shepherd crept two paces nearer to the old man and, propping his head on his fists, fastened his fixed stare upon him.
"Boo boo boo," answers Yefim. Pelageya rushes to the stove and begins looking for the broken pot with the matches. A minute passes in silence. The doctor, feeling in his pocket, lights a match. "In a minute, sir, in a minute," says Pelageya. She rushes out of the hut, and soon afterwards comes back with a bit of candle.
"So-o!" drawled out Mayakin, measuring the captain with an ill-omened look. "Well, Yefimushka, I'll strip your skin off." "It wasn't I who did it!" said Yefim, quickly. "Not you?" cried the old man, shaking with rage. "Who then?" "The master himself." "Foma? And you. Where were you?" "I was lying in the hatchway." "Ah! You were lying." "I was bound there."
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