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Часть текста: added, "tu les mangeras avec moi, mon utchitel." Yes, she always called me her "utchitel." A person more economical, grasping, and mean than Mlle. Blanche one could not imagine. But this was only as regards HER OWN money. MY hundred thousand francs (as she explained to me later) she needed to set up her establishment in Paris, "so that once and for all I may be on a decent footing, and proof against any stones which may be thrown at me--at all events for a long time to come." Nevertheless, I saw nothing of those hundred thousand francs, for my own purse (which she inspected daily) never managed to amass in it more than a hundred francs at a time; and, generally the sum did not reach even that figure. "What do you want with money?" she would say to me with air of absolute simplicity; and I never disputed the point. Nevertheless, though she fitted out her flat very badly with the money, the fact did not prevent her from saying when, later, she was showing me over the rooms of her new abode: "See what care and taste can do with the most wretched of means!" However, her "wretchedness " had cost fifty thousand francs, while with the remaining fifty thousand she purchased a carriage and horses. Also, we gave a couple of balls--evening parties attended...
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Часть текста: Possessed (English. Бесы). Part II. Chapter IV. All in expectation CHAPTER IV. ALL IN EXPECTATION The impression made on the whole neighbourhood by the story of the duel, which was rapidly noised abroad, was particularly remarkable from the unanimity with which every one hastened to take up the cudgels for Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch. Many of his former enemies declared themselves his friends. The chief reason for this change of front in public opinion was chiefly due to one person, who had hitherto not expressed her opinion, but who now very distinctly uttered a few words, which at once gave the event a significance exceedingly interesting to the vast majority. This was how it happened. On the day after the duel, all the town was assembled at the Marshal of Nobility's in honour of his wife's nameday. Yulia Mihailovna was present, or, rather, presided, accompanied by Lizaveta Nikolaevna, radiant with beauty and peculiar gaiety, which struck many of our ladies at once as particularly suspicious at this time. And I may mention, by the way, her engagement to Mavriky Nikolaevitch was by now an established fact. To a playful question from a retired general of much consequence, ...
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Часть текста: cincuenta mil en Francfort, y al cabo de tres días en París le entregué cincuenta mil más, en un pagaré, por el cual me sacó también dinero al cabo de ocho días, "et les cent mille francs que nous restent tu les mangeras avec moi, mon outchitel". Me llamaba siempre "outchitel", esto es, tutor. Es difícil imaginarse nada en este mundo más mezquino, más avaro más ruin que la clase de criaturas a que pertenecía mademoiselle Blanche. Pero esto en cuanto a su propio dinero. En lo tocante a mis cien mil francos, me dijo más tarde, sin rodeos que los necesitaba para su instalación inicial en París: "puesto que ahora me establezco como Dios manda y durante mucho tiempo nadie me quitará del sitio; al menos así lo tengo proyectado" -añadió. Yo, sin embargo, casi no vi esos cien mil francos. Era ella la que siempre guardaba el dinero, y en mi faltriquera, en la que ella misma huroneaba todos los días nunca había más de cien francos y casi siempre menos. -Pero para qué necesitas dinero? -me preguntaba de vez en cuando con la mayor sinceridad; y yo no disputaba con ella. Ahora bien, con ese dinero iba amueblando y decorando su apartamento bastante bien, y cuando más tarde me condujo al nuevo domicilio me decía enseñándome las habitaciones: "Mira lo que con cálculo y gusto se puede hacer aun con los medios más míseros". Esa miseria ascendía, sin embargo, a cincuenta mil francos, ni más ni menos. Con los cincuenta mil restantes se procuró un carruaje y caballos, amén...
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Часть текста: Ma questo per ciò che riguarda il suo denaro. Per ciò che riguarda invece i miei centomila franchi, mi dichiarò in seguito che essi le erano serviti per una prima sistemazione a Parigi, "così ora mi sono messa su un piede decoroso, una volta per sempre, e ormai per un bel pezzo nessuno mi butterà più giù; così almeno ho deciso" aggiunse. Del resto, quei centomila franchi si può dire che io non li vidi neanche; il denaro, lo teneva sempre lei e nel mio borsellino, nel quale lei ogni giorno curiosava, non si accumulavano mai più di cento franchi e, quasi sempre, molti di meno. "Ma via, a che ti serve il denaro?" mi diceva a volte con l'aria più innocente del mondo, e io non discutevo. In compenso, con quel denaro sistemò in modo molto confortevole il suo appartamento e quando poi mi trasferì nella nuova dimora, mi disse, mostrandomi le stanze: "Ecco che cosa si può fare con l'economia e il buon gusto, sia pure con i mezzi più miseri". Quella miseria costava, però, esattamente...