.." Rovinskaya became heated. "With
such an education you could always find a place with everything
found, and about thirty roubles. Well, in the capacity of a
housekeeper, bonne, senior clerk in a good store, a cashier, let's
say ... And if your future bridegroom ... Fritz ..."
"Hans, madam ..."
"If Hans proved to be an industrious and thrifty man, then it
would not be at all hard for you to get up on your feet
altogether, after three or four years. What do you think?"
"Ah, madam, you are a little mistaken. You have overlooked that,
in the very best of positions, I, even denying myself in
everything, will not be able to put aside more than fifteen,
twenty roubles a month; whereas here, with a prudent economy, I
gain up to a hundred roubles and at once carry them away with a
book into the savings bank. And besides that, just imagine,
gnadige Frau, what a humiliating position to be the servant in a
house! Always to depend on the caprice or the disposition of the
spirits of the masters! And the master always pesters you with
foolishness. Pfui! .. And the mistress is jealous, picks, and
scolds.
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