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1 I, IV | made out in the name of Nicholas Korpanoff, merchant, living
2 I, IV | at Irkutsk. It authorized Nicholas Korpanoff to be accompanied
3 I, IV | courier, but a plain merchant, Nicholas Korpanoff, traveling from
4 I, IV | made out in the name of Nicholas Korpanoff. He had consequently
5 I, VI | in the eyes of all, the Nicholas Korpanoff of my podorojna.
6 I, VII | drawn up in the name of Nicholas Korpanoff, authorized this
7 I, VII | you like of your brother Nicholas Korpanoff.” And he led the
8 I, VII | himself as the merchant Nicholas Korpanoff, going back to
9 I, IX | to act up to his part as Nicholas Korpanoff, a plain merchant
10 I, XI | yes! exactly so! Mr.—”~“Nicholas Korpanoff, merchant, of
11 I, XII | quite seriously.~“Why, Nicholas Korpanoff’s sister.”~“Is
12 I, XIV | never was your son! I am Nicholas Korpanoff, a merchant at
13 I, XIV | doubt that the pretended Nicholas Korpanoff was Michael Strogoff,
14 II, II | only knew as the merchant Nicholas Korpanoff? And on the other
15 II, II | Wladimir to the death of Nicholas Korpanoff.~All that her
16 II, II | interested the old Siberian. “Nicholas Korpanoff!” said she. “Tell
17 II, II | Tell me again about this Nicholas. I know only one man, one
18 II, II | not have astonished me. Nicholas Korpanoff! Was that really
19 II, II | did you not despise this Nicholas Korpanoff?”~“I admired without
20 II, II | know, I understand that Nicholas Korpanoff had to traverse
21 II, II | her that her companion, Nicholas Korpanoff, or rather Michael
22 II, VI | asked Michael.~“My name is Nicholas Pigassof.”~“It is a name
23 II, VI | to shake my hands!” said Nicholas. “There they are, little
24 II, VI | moved on; the horse, which Nicholas never touched with the whip,
25 II, VI | prostration. Michael and Nicholas laid her on the straw as
26 II, VI | She is very pretty,” said Nicholas.~“Yes,” replied Michael.~“
27 II, VI | Michael, turning towards Nicholas as if he could see him.~“
28 II, VI | to me.”~“Why!” returned Nicholas, smiling, “he knows the
29 II, VI | That may be,” replied Nicholas. “I was stationed there.
30 II, VI | them.”~This reply showed Nicholas Pigassof’s character. In
31 II, VI | to render more rapid. But Nicholas and his horse were accustomed
32 II, VI | least twenty persons, and Nicholas generously placed his supplies
33 II, VI | recovered some strength. Nicholas took the best possible care
34 II, VI | happened that during the night, Nicholas, although driving, fell
35 II, VI | for the amble as soon as Nicholas awoke, but the kibitka had
36 II, VI | they had been together, Nicholas, Michael, and Nadia had
37 II, VI | traveled with the eyes of Nicholas and the young girl. In turns,
38 II, VI | any Siberian was in sight. Nicholas was never silent, he loved
39 II, VI | little father?” resumed Nicholas. “You think that they will
40 II, VI | Little father,” continued Nicholas, “it seems to me that you
41 II, VI | is not possible,” replied Nicholas; “no, it is not possible!
42 II, VII | it might, it was because Nicholas had slept little. Consequently,
43 II, VII | means of transport. Since Nicholas Pigassof was to stop in
44 II, VII | He would thank the good Nicholas Pigassof, and set out immediately
45 II, VII | her father’s arms. Though Nicholas had resolved to stop at
46 II, VII | What a queer town!” said Nicholas. “They make no noise in
47 II, VII | Well, friend,” said he to Nicholas, “why are we not going on?”~“
48 II, VII | light fleck of the whip, Nicholas put his horse in motion.~
49 II, VII | Michael Strogoff, Nadia, and Nicholas passed silently through
50 II, VII | disappointed.~“Alack, alack!” cried Nicholas, “I shall never get any
51 II, VII | I must indeed!” replied Nicholas. “The wire is no doubt still
52 II, VII | Michael.~“You are right,” said Nicholas. “We have the Yenisei to
53 II, VII | of her blind companion.~Nicholas heard her, and turning to
54 II, VII | up by a flickering lamp, Nicholas and the young girl slept,
55 II, VII | patience, little father,” said Nicholas. “All this will soon disappear.
56 II, VII | nothing of the sort,” answered Nicholas.~“Look well, friend, on
57 II, VII | A raft, even a canoe?”~Nicholas and Nadia, grasping the
58 II, VII | people. Michael questioned Nicholas, who made the discouraging
59 II, VII | people, and quite empty. Nicholas visited one, Nadia entered
60 II, VII | article that might be useful.~Nicholas and the girl had each fruitlessly
61 II, VII | door.~“Come!” he exclaimed. Nicholas and Nadia went towards him
62 II, VII | leathern bottles,” answered Nicholas.~“Are they full?”~“Yes,
63 II, VII | even intoxicating; so that Nicholas and his companions could
64 II, VII | little father,” exclaimed Nicholas, “and by God’s help we will
65 II, VII | To work, then,” said Nicholas, beginning to empty the
66 II, VII | you, friend?”~“I?” cried Nicholas. “I am now going to have
67 II, VII | reins, and, according to Nicholas’s directions, guided the
68 II, VII | center of depression.~And Nicholas, did he not understand the
69 II, VII | anew.~“Hurrah!” exclaimed Nicholas.~Two hours after leaving
70 II, VII | been so amusing,” exclaimed Nicholas, rubbing his hands, as they
71 II, VIII| their past fatigues.~As to Nicholas Pigassof, he had never been
72 II, VIII| Michael had managed to get Nicholas to make his horse quicken
73 II, VIII| result, he had confided to Nicholas that Nadia and he were on
74 II, VIII| increase of work from him.~Nicholas gave in to all these reasons.
75 II, VIII| There, very fortunately, for Nicholas saw that his provisions
76 II, VIII| kibitka. “Ah!” exclaimed Nicholas.~“What is the matter, friend?”
77 II, VIII| Did you not see?” said Nicholas, whose bright face had become
78 II, VIII| crossing our road!” answered Nicholas.~In Russia, when a hare
79 II, VIII| sign of approaching evil. Nicholas, superstitious like the
80 II, VIII| little father,” answered Nicholas, “but for me!”~“It is my
81 II, VIII| kept the other herself.~Nicholas had not recovered his usual
82 II, VIII| the road. Yes, swiftly! Nicholas no longer thought of being
83 II, VIII| apprehensions either to Nicholas or Nadia, not wishing to
84 II, VIII| Michael.~“A corpse!” replied Nicholas, who had leapt out of the
85 II, VIII| mutilated, and already cold. Nicholas crossed himself. Then, aided
86 II, VIII| was driven on.~Besides, if Nicholas had wished to render the
87 II, VIII| the afternoon of this day, Nicholas caught sight of the tall
88 II, VIII| were floating around them.~Nicholas and Nadia looked, and communicated
89 II, VIII| He was just proposing to Nicholas to leave the road, when
90 II, VIII| were, Michael, Nadia, and Nicholas were prisoners, and were
91 II, VIII| Michael Strogoff, Nadia, and Nicholas entered Nijni-Oudinsk. The
92 II, VIII| horses and hurried away; Nicholas resigned as usual, Nadia,
93 II, VIII| Nadia’s heart, and filled Nicholas with indignation. But what
94 II, VIII| of this wicked treatment, Nicholas could not contain himself;
95 II, VIII| at the side of the road.~Nicholas tried to go after him. He
96 II, VIII| his rider to the bottom. Nicholas and Nadia uttered a piercing
97 II, VIII| insult, nor the insulter, but Nicholas saw for him. Then, quietly,
98 II, VIII| knowing what he was doing, Nicholas walked straight up to the
99 II, VIII| have cut the unfortunate Nicholas to pieces, but at a sign
100 II, IX | exclaimed the girl. “Poor Nicholas! Our meeting will have been
101 II, IX | tried to see if the body of Nicholas had not been left on the
102 II, IX | spoke little, and only of Nicholas. The young girl recalled
103 II, IX | Strogoff had been to her but Nicholas Korpanoff.~“Whom I ought
104 II, IX | human being about to die.~“Nicholas! Nicholas!” cried the girl,
105 II, IX | about to die.~“Nicholas! Nicholas!” cried the girl, with a
106 II, IX | has followed his master!”~“Nicholas!” called the girl. Her cry
107 II, IX | to Nadia.~It was Serko! Nicholas could not be far off! He
108 II, IX | on her knees beside it. Nicholas buried up to his neck, according
109 II, IX | before! For three days, Nicholas waited for the help which
110 II, IX | his friend! The eyes of Nicholas, which till then had been
111 II, IX | and the hole into which Nicholas had been placed when living,
112 II, IX | work.~Soon, the body of Nicholas, the hands crossed on the
113 II, X | Indeed, it was no longer as Nicholas Korpanoff that Jolivet and
114 II, X | the man who was no longer Nicholas Korpanoff, but Michael Strogoff,
115 II, XV | where he had buried poor Nicholas. A cross was erected there,
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