“I want fifteen roubles, you sheep’s-head!”

“But perhaps I don’t care to take back the revolver. You have no right to force me. You bought the thing and the matter is settled, and you’ve no right.⁠ ⁠… I can’t give you a sum like that in the night, anyhow. Where am I to get a sum like that?”

“You always have money. I’ve taken ten roubles off the price, but everyone knows you are a skinflint.”

“Come the day after tomorrow, do you hear, the day after tomorrow at twelve o’clock, and I’ll give you the whole of it, that will do, won’t it?”

Shatov knocked furiously at the window-frame for the third time.

“Give me ten roubles, and tomorrow early the other five.”

“No, the day after tomorrow the other five, tomorrow I swear I shan’t have it. You’d better not come, you’d better not come.”