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an old bonnet belonging to his wife. A smell of naph­ thaline made him screw up his nose and eyes. He pulled out of a bundle a heavy little roll made of linen in which he found some twenty gold pieces of ten roubles each. This was all that was left of Father Theodore’s ventures in business. He lifted the hem of his cassock, thrust the money into his striped trousers pocket, and then went up to the chest of drawers. Here he took out an old chocolate box in which he found fifty roubles in notes, and, leaving twenty roubles behind, he put the rest into his pocket. ‘ That’ll be enough for the housekeeping,’ he decided.