“Then I shall have something to tell you, drunkard that you are,” interrupts Stepka, who at last loses patience. “Listen and pay attention. Let us divide the world in two. You shall take one half, I the other. Then I shall have peace.”
“Then you will not give me back my money?”
“What money do you want, drunkard?”
“My money. It is the sweat of my brow; the labour of my hands. You will be sorry for it in the other world. You will be roasted for those five kopecks.”
“Go to the devil.”
“What are you driving me for? Am I a horse?”
“Be off, be off.”
“Blackguard!”
“Convict!”
And the insults exchanged were worse than they had been before the visit to the drink-seller.