The tea that cost two rubles I will give to you for one ruble ninety-five kopecks.

"The day after the betrothal Hemorrhoid Jack sent word to Sarkis by his clerk that Sarkis must pay 2,700 rubles for the tobacco and tea and 184 rubles for the manufactured goods.

I have promised him 7,000 rubles as dowry,

I say, "you add a ruble or two to the price per yard.

If I had held out a little longer they would have given me 8,000 rubles; now I must be satisfied with 7,000.

You still owe me fifteen hundred rubles. PODKHALYÚZIN.

He was clerk in a store, and received not more than 150 rubles in notes yearly, which were worth in current money scarcely one-third their face value.

Some days you'll not bring home half a ruble in silver.

Do you want two thousand rubles and a sable cloak for merely arranging this wedding, ma'am?

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.

In this way the band might lose two or three thousand rubles, but such a loss had no great importance, and was soon made up when some fat "pigeon" appeared.

That makes 3,000 or 4,000 rubles a year.

Perhaps all this might have happened if it had not been for cards and roulette and the perpetual desire of increasing their capitalfor the worthy couple fell into the hands of a talented company, whose agents robbed them at Frascati's in Paris, and again in Hamburg and various health resorts, so that hardly a year had passed when Bodlevski one fine night woke up to the fact that they no longer possessed a ruble.

We had gathered inif I remember rightlyabout three hundred rubles ($150.), which, with the money that Major Abaza had left us, amounted to something like five hundred.

If one brother spends fifty rubles, the other spends double the sum, so as not to be behind him.

" I took two rubles from my purse, and, taking the cards and letter, I handed them all to the footman, saying in lucid English: "We are coming in, and you are to take these cards to Count Tolstoy.

They said that when her father died he left her a store with goods worth about 3,000 rubles, and beside that 2,000 ducats in cash; but he was hardly dead when the relations came and secured the stock and gold as guardians of the orphan.

She is as rich as a Jew, and can advance five thousand rubles at a moment's notice; yet she will take in pledge objects worth as little as a ruble.

I had telegraphed to Major Abaza repeatedly for funds, but had received no reply, and I was finally compelled to go, in humiliation of spirit, to Governor General Sheláshnikoff, and borrow five hundred rubles.

And Ivan first counted out rubles into a bag, "ten, and ten and still ten," till Itch said, "It is enough.

He expected to find a great deal more money in it than he foundsome hundred and fifty thousand rubles; a hundred thousand in his late mother's name, and fifty thousand in his own.

"We are only getting twenty rubles for the job.

They insist upon having 8,000 rubles.

Don't hold my rubles so cheaply; for every one of them I have sold my soul twenty times. KHALI.

If I lay aside 1,000 rubles every year, I have in seven or eight years 10,000; in fifteen years double that, and so on.