I ask you now for the third time to pay me back the six roubles you have borrowed; you are trying to avoid me. That is not the way an honest man ought to behave. Will you please send the amount by my messenger? I am myself in a frightful fix. Can you not get the money somewhere?⁠— Yours, according to whether you send the money or not, with scorn, or love,

Grouchetsky.

“There we have it! Such a pig! Could he not wait a while? I will have another try.”