He would grow very fat, he would die-he would love women, play cards, drink, quarrel, give his life for a sentimental moment, pour every farthing of his possessions into the lap of a friend, incur debts which he would not pay, quarrel wildly with a man about a rouble, remember things that you would expect him to forget, forget everything that he should remember-a pagan, a saint, a blackguard, a hero-anything you please so long as you do not take it seriously.
"The Dark Forest"
Hugh Walpole
Thus I was enabled to wander through the whole of Russia to the frontier, which, having no passport, I could not legally cross, and was therefore forced to smuggle myself through by giving a man a rouble to conduct me through a wood which led into Germany.
"Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ"
Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
"No, Dobri, no; not a rouble less," repeated the shopman.
"In the Track of the Troops"
R.M. Ballantyne