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You are walking along, and a man asks you for twenty kopeks. You give them to him. Is that alms? Do you give spiritual alms, teach him. But what is it that you have given? It was only for the sake of getting rid of him." "No; and, besides, that is not what we are talking about. We want to know about this need, and then to help by both money and deeds; and to find work."
But if I stopped the poor man, and sympathetically questioned him about his former and his present life, I felt that it was no longer possible to give three or twenty kopeks, and I began to fumble in my purse for money, in doubt as to how much I ought to give, and I always gave more; and I always noticed that the poor man left me dissatisfied.
Yet he was polite, dignified, and gentlemanly never refused to drink a glass of beer with me, and always knew the way to a traktir. To the public functionaries with whom we came in contact during the course of our rambles his air was grand and imposing; and on the subject of money he was sublimely nonchalant, caring no more for rubles than I did for kopeks.
At last he got hold of a boy who was hurrying across to the pantry, seized him by the shoulders, and pressed a twenty kopek-piece into his hand. 'You shall have another twenty kopeks if you will bring the footman. 'Does your honour know Mateus? The boy scrutinized him sharply. 'I do, bring him here. Mateus appeared without delay.
In that night-lodging house, on the lower floor, in No. 32, in which my friend had spent the night, among the various, ever-changing lodgers, men and women, who came together there for five kopeks, there was a laundress, a woman thirty years of age, light-haired, peaceable and pretty, but sickly. The mistress of the quarters had a boatman lover.
And without letting his rope reins out of his hands, he squeezed a tear out of his eye with his mitten, shook it off, flung it to one side, shrugged his shoulders and did not utter another word. As I alighted from the sledge I gave him an extra fifteen kopéks.
LYUBÍM KÁRPYCH. Mítya, don't give me any money that is, don't give me much; just give me a little. I'll take a nap here, and then go and warm myself a little, you understand! I only need a little no, no! Don't be foolish! LYUBÍM KÁRPYCH. I need ten kopeks. This is all silver; I don't need silver. Yes, I'll play a joke on him! For fools riches are an evil!
'Ah, I'm first-rate at fitting into any kind of life, said Beletski with a sigh of pleasure. 'I'll go and see what they are up to. He threw his dressing-gown over his shoulders and ran out, shouting, 'And you look after the "refreshments". 'Just as you please. 'Shall I spend all the money, asked the old soldier impressively. 'The peppermint is dearer. It's sixteen kopeks.
This robust and artless lad pleased him from the first. "Have you come from the hay-harvest?" "Yes. I've mowed a verst and earned a kopek! Business is bad! There are so many hands! The starving folks have come have spoiled the prices. They used to give sixty kopeks at Koubagne. As much as that! And formerly, they say, three, four, even five rubles." "Formerly!
Accordingly, six rubles and twenty kopeks was the sum of his savings. My reserve fund was in the neighborhood of six hundred thousand. I had a wife and children, Semyon had a wife and children.
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