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501 II, V | cut the cords which bound Michael’s arms. The blind man knew
502 II, V | said she.~“Nadia!” murmured Michael, “Nadia!”~“Come, brother,”
503 II, VI | HALF an hour afterwards, Michael and Nadia had left Tomsk.~
504 II, VI | square, at the moment when Michael was led before the Emir.
505 II, VI | the crowd left the square. Michael, abandoned as a wretched
506 II, VI | their departure from Tomsk, Michael and she reached the town
507 II, VI | journey of thirty-five miles.~Michael had not uttered a single
508 II, VI | pity, in that look. Could Michael have seen her, he would
509 II, VI | heat of the steel.~Then Michael stretched out his hands.~“
510 II, VI | will not go away from you, Michael.”~At his name, pronounced
511 II, VI | a thrill passed through Michael’s frame. He perceived that
512 II, VI | We separate? How so, Michael?”~“I must not be an obstacle
513 II, VI | My father would curse me, Michael, were I to abandon you now,
514 II, VI | Nadia, Nadia,” replied Michael, “you should think only
515 II, VI | think only of your father!”~“Michael,” replied Nadia, “you have
516 II, VI | Irkutsk?”~“Never!” cried Michael, in a tone which plainly
517 II, VI | speak of our separating, Michael?”~“Nadia, they have taken
518 II, VI | eyes! I can see for you, Michael; and I will lead you thither,
519 II, VI | us start, Nadia.”~“Come, Michael.”~The two young people no
520 II, VI | in some degree appeased Michael’s hunger and thirst. Nadia
521 II, VI | asked several times.~“Yes, Michael,” invariably replied the
522 II, VI | what her companion left.~Michael and Nadia quitted Semilowskoe,
523 II, VI | way against fatigue. Had Michael seen her, perhaps he would
524 II, VI | Nadia never complained, and Michael, hearing no sigh, walked
525 II, VI | means of reaching Irkutsk.~Michael walked on, speaking little,
526 II, VI | thoughts. From time to time Michael said, “Speak to me, Nadia.”~“
527 II, VI | Nadia.”~“Why should I, Michael? We are thinking together!”
528 II, VI | sides, she dropped behind. Michael then stopped, he fixed his
529 II, VI | Semilowskoe for two hours when Michael stopped.~“Is there no one
530 II, VI | a good look-out!”~“Wait, Michael!” replied Nadia, going back
531 II, VI | road turned to the right.~Michael Strogoff waited alone for
532 II, VI | Is he alone?”~“Alone.”~Michael hesitated an instant. Should
533 II, VI | Tartars.~Nadia, holding Michael by the hand, made way for
534 II, VI | the sound of his voice, Michael said to himself that he
535 II, VI | himself more directly to Michael.~“We are going to Irkutsk,”
536 II, VI | She is my sister,” said Michael, who judged it prudent to
537 II, VI | Irkutsk!”~“Friend,” returned Michael, approaching him, “the Tartars
538 II, VI | what is your name?” asked Michael.~“My name is Nicholas Pigassof.”~“
539 II, VI | will never forget,” said Michael.~“Well, jump up, little
540 II, VI | master.~In a moment more, Michael and Nadia were seated in
541 II, VI | were seated in the kibitka. Michael held out his hands as if
542 II, VI | whip, ambled along. Though Michael did not gain any in speed,
543 II, VI | her complete prostration. Michael and Nicholas laid her on
544 II, VI | tear did not escape from Michael’s eyes, it was because the
545 II, VI | Nicholas.~“Yes,” replied Michael.~“They try to be strong,
546 II, VI | Very much,” answered Michael, turning towards Nicholas
547 II, VI | me, my friend,” continued Michael, “have you never seen me
548 II, VI | From Kolyvan?” repeated Michael. “Then it was there I met
549 II, VI | its way, at a pace which Michael longed to render more rapid.
550 II, VI | then, by looking close, Michael’s hand might have been seen
551 II, VI | been together, Nicholas, Michael, and Nadia had remained
552 II, VI | companion would leave them.~Michael saw the country through
553 II, VI | his conversation. One day, Michael asked him what sort of weather
554 II, VI | during the bad season.”~Michael Strogoff shook his head
555 II, VI | Irkutsk?”~“I fear so,” replied Michael.~“Yes . . . you are right;
556 II, VI | not right . . .” answered Michael, who wished to remain unmoved.~“
557 II, VI | can ever hate him,” said Michael.~“It is not possible,” replied
558 II, VI | am sure of it,” returned Michael quietly.~
559 II, VII | 22nd of August, though this Michael did not know, but it explained
560 II, VII | the 25th.~However, though Michael Strogoff could not know
561 II, VII | another more rapid vehicle. Michael, after having addressed
562 II, VII | Where are we, sister?” asked Michael.~“Half a verst from the
563 II, VII | town be asleep?” observed Michael. “Not a sound strikes my
564 II, VII | misfortune passed across Michael’s heart. He had not said
565 II, VII | remained in Krasnoiarsk.~Michael Strogoff, Nadia, and Nicholas
566 II, VII | heard in this dead city. Michael allowed nothing of what
567 II, VII | till to-morrow,” answered Michael.~“You are right,” said Nicholas. “
568 II, VII | heard her, and turning to Michael, “Forgive me, little father,”
569 II, VII | yourself, friend,” replied Michael, pressing his hand over
570 II, VII | recommence our journey!”~Michael and his friends had not
571 II, VII | young girl slept, whilst Michael, over whom sleep had no
572 II, VII | the banks of the Yenisei. Michael was in much anxiety. How
573 II, VII | Do you see a boat?” asked Michael, casting his eyes eagerly
574 II, VII | I hear it roaring,” said Michael.~Indeed, from the fog issued
575 II, VII | the vapors.~“Well?” asked Michael.~“The fog is beginning to
576 II, VII | Do you see a boat?” asked Michael.~“I see nothing of the sort,”
577 II, VII | Yenisei.~“I remember,” said Michael, “that higher up, on the
578 II, VII | the bank.”~Nadia seized Michael’s hand and started off at
579 II, VII | would carry just themselves, Michael would not hesitate to attempt
580 II, VII | enough to carry three people. Michael questioned Nicholas, who
581 II, VII | We shall cross!” answered Michael.~The search was continued.
582 II, VII | entered another, and even Michael went here and there and
583 II, VII | ran to the bank and saw Michael standing on the threshold
584 II, VII | What are these?” asked Michael, touching several objects
585 II, VII | discovery.~“Save one,” said Michael, “but empty the others.”~“
586 II, VII | does that matter?” replied Michael. “Let us get across first,
587 II, VII | be afraid, Nadia?” asked Michael.~“No, brother,” answered
588 II, VII | come over their ankles. Michael held the reins, and, according
589 II, VII | kibitka, notwithstanding all Michael’s efforts, was irresistibly
590 II, VII | refuge in the carriage.~Michael knew what was happening.
591 II, VII | exhausted, when, all at once, Michael, throwing off such of his
592 II, VII | more or less unfortunate to Michael Strogoff. On the Irtych,
593 II, VII | to us, friend,” answered Michael Strogoff, “will, perhaps,
594 II, VIII| A HARE CROSSES THE ROAD~MICHAEL STROGOFF might at last hope
595 II, VIII| The health of Nadia and Michael was good, and since leaving
596 II, VIII| working the manip-ulator!”~Michael had managed to get Nicholas
597 II, VIII| faster, and, according to Michael’s calculations, now made
598 II, VIII| of the Tartar vanguard. Michael Strogoff had some grounds
599 II, VIII| the matter, friend?” asked Michael quickly, like a blind man
600 II, VIII| What was it then?” asked Michael.~“A hare crossing our road!”
601 II, VIII| Russians, stopped the kibitka.~Michael understood his companion’
602 II, VIII| hunters. She gave one to Michael, who concealed it among
603 II, VIII| at his journey’s end as Michael himself. Notwithstanding
604 II, VIII| Nadia transmitting them to Michael, made them fear that their
605 II, VIII| be seen on their walls.~Michael’s anxiety may be imagined.
606 II, VIII| What is the matter?” asked Michael.~“A corpse!” replied Nicholas,
607 II, VIII| himself. Then, aided by Michael, he carried the body to
608 II, VIII| the miserable remains, but Michael could not allow him the
609 II, VIII| of their observations to Michael. They must make up their
610 II, VIII| Advance cautiously,” said Michael Strogoff, “but advance!”~
611 II, VIII| Emir’s soldiers? What was Michael to do?~He was undecided.
612 II, VIII| they knew where they were, Michael, Nadia, and Nicholas were
613 II, VIII| rapidly towards Nijni-Oudinsk.~Michael, in this second attack,
614 II, VIII| invading army.~In short, what Michael learnt from the talk at
615 II, VIII| imagined with what thoughts Michael’s mind was now occupied!
616 II, VIII| of the Tartar horsemen, Michael Strogoff, Nadia, and Nicholas
617 II, VIII| usual, Nadia, her faith in Michael unshaken, and Michael himself,
618 II, VIII| in Michael unshaken, and Michael himself, apparently indifferent,
619 II, VIII| They were traveling fast. Michael’s horse, having no one to
620 II, VIII| cruelty, to exchange the horse Michael was riding for one which
621 II, VIII| explained by a remark which Michael overheard, “Perhaps that
622 II, VIII| Russian can see, after all!”~Michael was placed on this horse,
623 II, VIII| been extremely dangerous.~Michael did not complain. Not a
624 II, VIII| assistance, it was found that Michael, having been able to throw
625 II, VIII| out of his suffering, and Michael, fastened to a Tartar’s
626 II, VIII| insulted by one of them.~Michael could not see the insult,
627 II, VIII| The rope which fastened Michael, gnawed through by him,
628 II, VIII| his prisoner had escaped.~Michael and Nadia found themselves
629 II, IX | CHAPTER IX IN THE STEPPE~MICHAEL STROGOFF and Nadia were
630 II, IX | hundred miles to go! Moreover, Michael could now only see with
631 II, IX | fearful might be his fate. Michael had thrown himself down
632 II, IX | was lost in the distance. Michael and Nadia were quite alone.~“
633 II, IX | have been fatal to him!” Michael made no response.~“Michael,”
634 II, IX | Michael made no response.~“Michael,” continued Nadia, “do you
635 II, IX | risked his life for me?”~Michael was still silent. Motionless,
636 II, IX | Where shall I lead you, Michael?”~“To Irkutsk!” he replied.~“
637 II, IX | highroad?”~“Yes, Nadia.”~Michael was still the same man who
638 II, IX | the country.~Nadia took Michael’s hand, and they started.~
639 II, IX | for an indefinite time.~Michael and the girl loaded themselves
640 II, IX | continued their journey. Michael walked with a firm step,
641 II, IX | had reduced her.~However, Michael guessed it. “You are quite
642 II, IX | I will carry you.”~“Yes, Michael.”~During this day they came
643 II, IX | mutton; but, contrary to Michael’s hopes, there was not a
644 II, IX | Krasnoiarsk and Lake Baikal, Michael therefore expected before
645 II, IX | march was resumed; and when Michael felt that he was dragging
646 II, IX | for them.~In answering, Michael tried to give Nadia some
647 II, IX | not escape death.~One day Michael said to the girl, “You never
648 II, IX | me of her, Nadia,” said Michael. “Speak—you will please
649 II, IX | in return. At that time Michael Strogoff had been to her
650 II, IX | always to have been,” replied Michael, his brow darkening.~Then
651 II, IX | did not try to see her, Michael,” replied Nadia. “Chance
652 II, IX | not to betray myself.”~“Michael, Michael! at sight of the
653 II, IX | betray myself.”~“Michael, Michael! at sight of the lash raised
654 II, IX | my oath, Nadia,” returned Michael. “May God and the Father
655 II, IX | the Father pardon me!”~“Michael,” resumed the girl, “I have
656 II, IX | anxious to reach Irkutsk?”~Michael tightly pressed his companion’
657 II, IX | not know.”~“Must I think, Michael, that the wish alone to
658 II, IX | Irkutsk?”~“No, Nadia,” replied Michael, gravely. “I should deceive
659 II, IX | led me to Irkutsk.”~“Poor Michael!” answered Nadia, with emotion. “
660 II, IX | That does not answer me. Michael, why, now, are you in such
661 II, IX | Ivan Ogareff,” exclaimed Michael.~“Even now?”~“Even now,
662 II, IX | In uttering these words, Michael did not speak solely through
663 II, IX | advance-guard had not yet appeared. Michael began to consider the various
664 II, IX | step towards repulsing it. Michael sometimes let his thoughts
665 II, IX | strength would soon fail her. Michael knew it only too well. If
666 II, IX | would have said to him, “Go, Michael, leave me in some hut! Reach
667 II, IX | myself for him, for you! Go, Michael! I can go no farther!”~Many
668 II, IX | Nadia was obliged to stop. Michael then took her in his strong
669 II, IX | Shall we make a halt?” asked Michael.~“It is night, Michael,”
670 II, IX | asked Michael.~“It is night, Michael,” answered Nadia. “Do you
671 II, IX | crossed the Dinka,” replied Michael, “I should like to put that
672 II, IX | my poor Nadia!”~“Come, Michael,” returned Nadia, seizing
673 II, IX | immense distance.~Suddenly, Michael and Nadia stopped, as if
674 II, IX | with a foreboding of evil. Michael, who was listening, shook
675 II, IX | shook his head.~“Come, Michael, come,” said Nadia. And
676 II, IX | have left the road,” said Michael, feeling that he was treading
677 II, IX | Nadia stopped.~“Yes!” said Michael. “It is Serko barking! . . .
678 II, IX | Her cry was unanswered.~Michael listened. Nadia gazed over
679 II, IX | murmuring in a plaintive tone, “Michael!”~Then a dog, all bloody,
680 II, IX | have murmured the name of Michael! Where was he? Nadia had
681 II, IX | strength to call again. Michael, crawling on the ground,
682 II, IX | against these ferocious birds!~Michael dug at the ground with his
683 II, IX | closed, opened.~He recognized Michael and Nadia. “Farewell, my
684 II, IX | you again! Pray for me!”~Michael continued to dig, though
685 II, IX | about half a verst distant. Michael Strogoff listened. It was
686 II, IX | from burying him!” said Michael. And he continued his work.~
687 II, IX | was laid in the grave. Michael and Nadia, kneeling, prayed
688 II, IX | his life.~“And now,” said Michael, as he threw in the earth, “
689 II, IX | Forward, Nadia!” he said.~Michael could not follow the road,
690 II, IX | wide sheet of water lay at Michael Strogoff’s feet. It was
691 II, X | point of the lake which Michael had now reached, carrying
692 II, X | man, even on foot.~Could Michael Strogoff still be that man?~
693 II, X | sight of this group, when Michael, carrying her in his arms,
694 II, X | closed and her head fell on Michael’s breast.~But they had been
695 II, X | the town.~Their plan made Michael’s heart leap; a last chance
696 II, X | room.~On board this raft Michael and Nadia were taken. The
697 II, X | those who questioned him, Michael Strogoff said nothing of
698 II, X | in a sort of stupor, and Michael watched beside her; sleep
699 II, X | which would stop the raft.~Michael therefore took immense interest
700 II, X | to escape her. She seized Michael’s hand, who at that moment
701 II, X | two traveling companions, Michael.”~“The Frenchman and the
702 II, X | defiles of the Ural?”~“Yes.”~Michael started, for the strict
703 II, X | see him, but as the true Michael Strogoff, Courier of the
704 II, X | and what depended on him.~Michael Strogoff rapidly made up
705 II, X | Livenitchnaia, as it had brought Michael Strogoff. As we know, after
706 II, X | been cut off, as had been Michael, before being able even
707 II, X | Nicholas Korpanoff, but Michael Strogoff, Courier of the
708 II, X | boundless when they perceived Michael Strogoff, whom they had
709 II, X | to be no longer living.~Michael had not moved at their approach.
710 II, X | they were seated beside Michael, pressing his hand and waiting
711 II, X | them.~“Gentlemen,” said Michael, in a low voice, “you ought
712 II, X | prefer to act alone,” replied Michael.~“But those blackguards
713 II, X | they had promised to keep Michael’s secret, did not leave
714 II, X | thought it his duty to say to Michael, “We owe you some apology
715 II, X | not a long time!” replied Michael quietly.~Half an hour after
716 II, X | cruel trials through which Michael and his companion had successively
717 II, X | devotion. Their opinion of Michael was exactly what the Czar
718 II, XI | them through and through.~Michael and Nadia, lying in the
719 II, XI | accomplish his mission, Michael was singularly calm. Even
720 II, XI | She thought, too, that if Michael had to make any fresh effort
721 II, XI | not land!”~He alluded to Michael Strogoff.~In the meantime,
722 II, XI | the wolves filled the air.~Michael did not wish to remain inactive.
723 II, XI | of the fierce beasts, and Michael was finding his way towards
724 II, XI | was further obstructed.~Michael had crept forward; Jolivet
725 II, XI | said Alcide.~“Yes,” replied Michael, “but God is with us!”~The
726 II, XI | massacred without mercy!~Michael returned to the spot where
727 II, XI | Come, Nadia,” whispered Michael in the girl’s ear.~Without
728 II, XI | for anything,” Nadia took Michael’s hand.~“We must cross the
729 II, XI | the raft.”~Nadia obeyed. Michael and she glided rapidly over
730 II, XI | crept along in front of Michael. The shot fell around them
731 II, XI | town. Nadia guessed what Michael wished to attempt. One of
732 II, XI | widened, the way was open. Michael and Nadia heard the shots,
733 II, XI | block of ice which bore Michael and Nadia. They feared every
734 II, XI | near the quays of Irkutsk. Michael, his teeth tight set, his
735 II, XI | fires of the Tartar camp.~Michael Strogoff was not more than
736 II, XI | uttered a cry.~At the cry Michael stood up on the ice, which
737 II, XIII| of July.”~“Your name?”~“Michael Strogoff.”~It was Ivan Ogareff.
738 II, XIII| withdraw. He and the false Michael Strogoff remained alone
739 II, XIII| take in its meaning fully. “Michael Strogoff, do you know the
740 II, XIII| winter.”~“Well, hear this, Michael Strogoff. Though I must
741 II, XIII| before your Highness.”~“Good, Michael Strogoff,” answered the
742 II, XIII| the day she was there with Michael Strogoff; but then, he had
743 II, XIII| often spoke to the pretended Michael Strogoff, and made him repeat
744 II, XIV | Grand Duke desired that Michael Strogoff—which was the only
745 II, XIV | spreading along the current, Michael had seized her in his arms,
746 II, XIV | Swimming beneath the water, Michael managed to get a footing
747 II, XIV | with Nadia on the quay. Michael Strogoff had reached his
748 II, XIV | palace being open to all, Michael and Nadia entered without
749 II, XIV | the confused multitude, Michael and the young girl were
750 II, XIV | was dashed to the ground.~“Michael!” cried Nadia.~It was Michael
751 II, XIV | Michael!” cried Nadia.~It was Michael Strogoff. Michael had heard
752 II, XIV | It was Michael Strogoff. Michael had heard Nadia’s call.
753 II, XIV | Close the door, Nadia!” said Michael. “Call no one, and leave
754 II, XIV | involuntary admiration. Michael’s calm bearing seemed to
755 II, XIV | seemed to have inspired her. Michael’s sole weapon was his Siberian
756 II, XIV | drove his sword full at Michael’s breast. An imperceptible
757 II, XIV | knife turned aside the blow. Michael had not been touched, and
758 II, XIV | crossed, but at a touch from Michael’s knife, wielded in the
759 II, XIV | he asked.~“I,” replied Michael.~One of the officers put
760 II, XIV | Your Highness,” answered Michael, “ask me rather the name
761 II, XIV | But who are you, then?”~“Michael Strogoff!”~
762 II, XV | CHAPTER XV CONCLUSION~MICHAEL STROGOFF was not, had never
763 II, XV | her hands towards her son. Michael gazed at her as a son would
764 II, XV | a stream of melted iron.~Michael had immediately understood
765 II, XV | believed were destroyed, Michael had been able to read, and
766 II, XV | words to the Grand Duke, and Michael repeated also—and with what
767 II, XV | Wassili Fedor,” replied Michael.~“The daughter of Captain
768 II, XV | he extended the other to Michael.~An hour after, Nadia was
769 II, XV | was in her father’s arms. Michael Strogoff, Nadia, and Wassili
770 II, XV | Russian soldiers, two of Michael’s friends entered the city.
771 II, XV | great on finding Nadia and Michael safe and sound; above all,
772 II, XV | entry of the Russian troops.~Michael Strogoff sought Nadia, and
773 II, XV | brother.”~“Then, Nadia,” said Michael, “I think that God, in allowing
774 II, XV | said Nadia, falling into Michael’s arms. Then turning towards
775 II, XV | days after the ceremony, Michael and Nadia Strogoff, accompanied
776 II, XV | they stopped for a while. Michael found the place where he
777 II, XV | few days passed at Omsk, Michael and Nadia entered Europe,
778 II, XV | In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high
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