And then you asked so piteously for fringe for your trousers.

We tried to find out what sort of fringe, but we could not make it out.

Now to business! Here are thirty-five roubles; I take ten of them, and shall give you an account of them in an hour or two.

I will let Zossimov know at the same time, though he ought to have been here long ago, for it is nearly twelve.

And you, Nastasya, look in pretty often while I am away, to see whether he wants a drink or anything else.