When one comesespecially if he is rather richyou jump out and do some trick, and one gives you five kopeks, and another ten: with that you take breath for a day and so exist.

I need ten kopeks.

Give me two kopeks more, that will be just right.

You used to roam the town and pick up kopeks.

You remember how I used to pick up kopeks, but do you remember how you and I used to go on sprees together?

Then we'll write out a statement that such and such notes are due, and that we'll pay twenty-five kopeks on the ruble:

That's right, there's no harm in bargaining: if they don't take it at twenty-five kopeks, they'll take it at half a ruble; but if they won't take it at half a ruble, they'll grab for it with both hands at seventy kopeks.

That's right, there's no harm in bargaining: if they don't take it at twenty-five kopeks, they'll take it at half a ruble; but if they won't take it at half a ruble, they'll grab for it with both hands at seventy kopeks.

You'll wait, if you please, until some merchant just like yourself, the dirty cur, will strip you bare, and then, you'll see, he'll make an agreement at ten kopeks on the ruble, and he'll wallow in his millions, and won't think you're worth spitting at.

Here's what I think, Lázar: to offer the creditors such a proposition as thiswill they accept from me twenty-five kopeks on the ruble?

Why, according to my notion, Samsón Sílych, if you're going to pay at the rate of twenty-five kopeks, it would be more decent not to pay at all. BOLSHÓV.

And the other day, when I fell from the steeple, Agraféna Kondrátyevna gave me ten kopeks; I won twenty-five kopeks at heads and tails; and day before yesterday the boss forgot and left one whole ruble on the counter.

And the other day, when I fell from the steeple, Agraféna Kondrátyevna gave me ten kopeks; I won twenty-five kopeks at heads and tails; and day before yesterday the boss forgot and left one whole ruble on the counter.

Here, I transfer all the property to you; so that afterwards the creditors will be sorry that they didn't take twenty-five kopeks on the ruble. PODKHALYÚZIN.

They ask twenty-five kopeks. PODKHALYÚZIN.

But won't they take eight kopeks in five years? BOLSHÓV.

You yourself used to say not to give more than ten kopeks, sir.

Just consider yourself: at the rate of twenty-five kopeks, that's a lot of money.

But twenty-five kopeks's a lot, sir!

Ten kopeks, if you please, I'll give, sir, as we said. BOLSHÓV.

I begged out of every one of your kopeks I could; I begged, and bowed down to their feet; but what can I do, when they won't come down one little bit?

As it is, I'll add five kopeks more.

I need twenty-five kopeks, Lázar! PODKHALYÚZIN.

Tobacco is also grown in small quantities in parts of Georgia and made into cigarettes, which are sold in Tiflis at three kopeks per hundred.

A show of force is made, but finally the suitors are admitted, after paying twenty kopeks.