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THE squabbling started when she took it into her head all of a sudden to over-value articles, and on one or two occasions was disposed to enter into an argument with me on the subject. I declined. However, at this juncture, the captain's widow turned up.
The old woman had come along with a medallion-a gift from her late husband, a souvenir, you know the sort of thing. I gave her thirty roubles. She started whimpering plaintively, begging me to take good care of the article-which we always do of course. Well, anyway, she came in five days later wanting to exchange it for a bracelet not worth eight roubles; I refused, naturally. She must have caught something in my wife's expression at the time, because she came when I wasn't there and my wife exchanged the medallion.