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At that instant a boy entered the room with a note for me from Zourine I unfolded it and read as follows: "Do me the favor, my dear Peter, to send me by my servant the hundred roubles that you lost to me yesterday I am horribly in want of money Your devoted ZOURINE"

As I was perfectly in his power, I assuive a hundred roubles to the boy

"What? why?" said the old man, surprised

"I owe that suh to contract such a debt?" said he, with redoubled astonishment "No, no, that's iive the money"

I reflected that if in this decisive e the obstinate old fellow to obey me, it would be i at hihtily, I said, "I am thy master; thou art my servant The money is mine, and I lost because I chose to lose it; I advise thee to obey when ordered, and not assume the airs of a master"

My words affected Saveliitch so much that he clasped his hands and stood bowed downthere like a post?" I cried out, angrily

Saveliitch was in tears

"Oh!voice, "do not kill ht, listen to , that we never had so oodness! Tell hi but nuts"

"Silence," said I, with severity, "give the money or I'll chase you out of the rooony, and went for the ood old man, but I wanted to eer a child Saveliitch sent the money to Zourine, and then hastened our departure from that cursed inn

I left Simbirsk with a troubled conscience; a secret remorse oppressedthat I should ever ain