Take, for instance, Nikolay Ivanych.

He earns seventy-five rubles a month, and gives us fifty! And others do the same.

And the hungry students send us money sometimes, which they collect penny by penny.

And as to the masters, of course there are different kinds among them.

Some of them will deceive us, and some will leave us; but the best will stay with us and march with us up to our holiday." He clapped his hands, and rubbing them vigorously against each other continued: "But not even the flight of an eagle's wings will enable anyone to reach that holiday, so we'll make a little one for the first of May.