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Updated: June 11, 2025
If you grabbed anything they took off their caps to you, while they would thrash me for a rouble and slap me in the face at the club. . . . But there, why recall it? It is high time to forget it." "Tell me, please, how did Sofya Mihailovna get on afterwards?" "With her ten thousand? Very badly.
But the capricious old lady only laughed, and several times, to the great offence of the wardrobe-maid, forced her to repeat 'how he bent your head down with his heavy hand, and next day she sent Gerasim a rouble. She looked on him with favour as a strong and faithful watchman.
Turn your attention to her everyday vocabulary thirty or forty words, no more altogether as with a baby or a savage: to eat, to drink, to sleep, man, bed, the madam, rouble, lover, doctor, hospital, linen, policeman and that's all.
The whole sum, however, was sent the young man by Varvara Petrovna, and Stepan Trofimovitch had nothing to do with a single rouble of it.
So I want to find out whether there's much damage in it! You see, I am a relative of yours. And then, I am the only one you have." "You are troubling yourself in vain. Do you know, papa, what I'll tell you? Either give me full freedom, or take all my business into your own hands. Take everything! Everything to the last rouble!"
The arrangements for this were finally made, and the two Central Powers drew in all 643 million karbowanez. The Rouble Syndicate, however, which had been formed under the leadership of the principal banks in Berlin, Vienna and Budapest, was during the first few months only able to exert a very slight activity.
This was Alexandra, the servant of old of the student bird-houses; the friend and creditor of all the students; a woman of sixty-five, argumentative, and a grumbler. Lichonin repeated his order to her and gave her a rouble note. But the old woman would not go away; shuffled in one place, snorted, chewed with her lips and looked inimically at the girl sitting with her back to the light.
She will not live long." "Do not speak of it," begged Foma in a low voice. "And I will speak of it. You need not fear death you are not an old woman on the oven. Live fearlessly and do what you were appointed to do. Man is appointed for the organisation of life on earth. Man is capital like a rouble, he is made up of trashy copper groshes and copecks.
I remember at one o'clock in the afternoon I crossed the marketplace; the crowd was silent and their faces solemn and gloomy. A merchant, fat and sallow, drove up, got out of his carriage, made a bow to the ground, kissed the ikon, offered a rouble, sighing, got back into his carriage and drove off. Another carriage drove up with two ladies accompanied by two of our scapegraces.
From this pack she took out two nicely bound books with a cross engraved on the cover, and offered them to Stepan Trofimovitch. "Et... mais je croisque c'est l'Evangile... with the greatest pleasure.... Ah, now I understand.... Vous etes ce qu'on appelle a gospel-woman; I've read more than once.... Half a rouble?" "Thirty-five kopecks," answered the gospel-woman. "With the greatest pleasure.
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