"Why, most willingly," said I, although, on the contrary, it was trying and unpleasant, especially because the evening before, having lost at cards, I had left only about five rubles in Nikíta's care. "In a moment," said I, arising, "I will go and get it at the tent."
"No, by and by: ne vous dérangez pas."
Nevertheless, not heeding him, I hastened to the closed tent, where stood my bed, and where the captain was sleeping.
"Alekséi Ivánuitch, let me have ten rubles, please, for rations," said I to the captain, shaking him.
"What! have you been losing again? But this very evening, you were not going to play any more," murmured the captain, still half asleep.
"No, I have not been playing; but I want the money; let me have it, please."
"Makatiuk!" shouted the captain to his servant,[18] "hand me my bag with the money."
"Hush, hush!" said I, hearing Guskof's measured steps near the tent.
"What? Why hush?"