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1 I, II | covers a superficial area of 1,790,208 square miles, and
2 I, XVII| aloud: “Madeleine Jolivet, 10, Faubourg Montmartre, Paris.~“
3 II, VIII| Czar!~The next day, the 11th of September, the detachment
4 I, XIV | importance.~This city has about 12,000 to 13,000 inhabitants.
5 I, XIV | city has about 12,000 to 13,000 inhabitants. It is defended
6 II, IX | started.~The next morning, the 13th of September, twenty versts
7 II, XIII| and on the night of the 14th I saw His Majesty the Czar
8 II, IV | ENTRY~TOMSK, founded in 1604, nearly in the heart of
9 II, XII | period.~Irkutsk, founded in 1611, is situated at the confluence
10 I, XII | Ekaterenburg. It was founded in 1723, and has since become a
11 I, I | what occurred at Zakret in 1812?”~“I remember it as well
12 I, V | concourse of traders, but since 1817 the fair had been removed
13 I, IX | TARANTASS~THE next day, the 19th of July, the Caucasus reached
14 I, XIV | guarded by many sentries, 2,000 Tartars bivouacked.
15 II, VIII| degrees below zero, and that 20 degrees below zero is considered
16 I, II | superficial area of 1,790,208 square miles, and contains
17 I, IX | road.~The next day, the 20th of July, at about eight
18 II, VII | battle of Tomsk was on the 22nd of August, though this Michael
19 I, XII | afternoon of the next day, the 23rd of July, the two carriages
20 II, VII | daybreak the next morning, the 26th of August, the horse was
21 I, XV | his favor.~It was on the 29th of July, at eight o’clock
22 II, XIII| two following days, the 3rd and 4th of October, the
23 I, IV | fact, this vast empire, 4,000,000 square miles in
24 II, VIII| mercury is frozen nearly 42 degrees below zero, and
25 I, II | a superficial area of 1,790,208 square miles, and contains
26 II, VIII| during the day, on the 8th of September, the kibitka
27 I, XIII| the evening they reached Abatskaia, fifty miles farther on,
28 I, II | Caucasian race, which, as Abel de Remusat says, “is regarded
29 II, XIV | bells rang, and all the able-bodied of the population ran, some
30 I, XI | call a telga!”~“Oh, that abominable driver! He goes on and does
31 II, XII | do in a town where exiles abound; and, lastly, a mayor, chief
32 I, XII | of an important district, abounding in manufactories principally
33 I, III | missions with success.”~“Abroad?”~“In Siberia itself.”~“
34 I, III | life he had been so long absent from her. Now, however,
35 I, V | Raskalniks, made the vow of abstinence, rejected the potatoes in
36 II, X | seated on the raft, was abstractedly gazing at the shore. A cry
37 II, XII | kind had been collected in abundance. Irkutsk is the emporium
38 I, VII | all the same, have soundly abused the clumsy fellow who roused
39 I, VIII| Michael a means only of accelerating her journey to her father.~“
40 I, VII | who roused them with an accidental kick.~Michael Strogoff took
41 I, VI | contrary, this young girl accompanies me, I shall appear, in the
42 II, II | Siberia.~Confidante and accomplice, Sangarre, without country,
43 I, XI | companion, Alcide Jolivet, in accordance with the rules of society,
44 II, I | but he did not wish to accost them. It mattered little
45 I, IV | sought no opportunity of accosting her. Once only, when her
46 II, V | Alcide Jolivet was, by all accounts, not mistaken.~In the first
47 II, II | Here are letters which accredit us in Russia, from the English
48 II, XI | This was the cause of the accumulation of ice, which became gradually
49 II, IX | suffered dreadfully. Her aching feet could scarcely support
50 II, X | than usual, and it may be acknowledged that his gravity was justified
51 II, I | himself aloof from his former acquaintances.~From the moment that Harry
52 II, XIII| governor-general’s palace and, acquainting Ogareff with the circumstances
53 I, VI | fires were put out; the acrobats’ ropes were lowered; the
54 I, XII | Siberia with the greatest activity. However, the loyal Cossacks
55 II, XII | Eastern Siberia. Below him acts a civil governor, in whose
56 I, V | theaters, acting Shakespeare, adapted to the taste of spectators
57 I, IX | and is, moreover, less addicted to leaving its hinder part
58 I, VII | descend the Volga, which adds nearly two miles of current
59 I, IV | dark pelisse, gracefully adjusted at the neck by a blue tie.
60 II, XII | governor, in whose hands is the administration of the province; a head
61 II, XII | therefore no fear with regard to admitting the peasants of the valley
62 I, II | the modifications he had adopted with regard to applications
63 I, XIV | demanded, excelling in the adoption of all disguises and in
64 I, I | domes, and spires which adorn the ancient city. Below
65 I, I | by the numerous mirrors adorning the walls.~The grand saloon,
66 I, VII | Jolivet had made the first advances, and Harry Blount had accepted
67 I, I | which one missed might be advantageously secured by the other, and
68 II, XIV | unequal a combat all the advantages were on his side. The immobility
69 II, I | disasters which, since the adventure of Ichim, had increased
70 II, II | opportunity for escape occurs. The adverse chances are numerous on
71 I, V | somewhat American, mode of advertisement.~In the avenues and long
72 I, XV | avoid. He had been well advised in not taking a carriage
73 II, V | resounded in the breeze like AEolian harps.~Then the dancers
74 I, I | personage, of lofty stature, affable demeanor, and physiognomy
75 II, VIII| which Feofar’s army was to affect a junction in the neighborhood
76 I, I | the guard. This was not affectation on his part, but the custom
77 II, VIII| spirits. The ill-omen had affected him more than could have
78 I, XII | was rather respect than affection. He felt that hers was one
79 II, XII | wounded him in his tenderest affections, and ruined the hope of
80 II, I | of doctors.”~And on this affirmation Alcide, tearing his handkerchief,
81 I, I | should not be far wrong in affirming that those of the said Englishman
82 II, I | fluttering behind. Brown-skinned Afghans, too, might have been seen.
83 II, VI | than before, he started on afresh.~However, amidst these continual
84 II, XI | and Nadia, lying in the afterpart of the raft, bore this increase
85 II, IV | necklaces of cornelians, agates, emeralds, opals, and sapphires—
86 II, I | be formed of the enormous agglomerations of different tribes included
87 I, XIV | inexpressible anguish which agitated the revered countenance
88 II, XI | by little, the sounds of agony and of ferocious joy grew
89 I, I | The grand-dukes and their aides-de-camp, the chamberlains-in-waiting
90 I, V | Since the evening before, aides-decamp, leaving the governor’s
91 II, XI | of mineral oil. Alcide, aiding his touch by his sense of
92 II, II | This was the great result aimed at by Ivan Ogareff. To listen
93 I, II | thirsting for vengeance, aims at the life of my brother!”~
94 I, II | Ishim, Lake Saisang and Lake Aksakal. The greater horde, occupying
95 II, I | collected under the name of Alamanes. Amongst them, and as the
96 I, XVI | approach him. But happily the alarm was not given, and he was
97 I, II | Verkne-Nertschink, Strelink, Albazine, Blagowstenks, Radde, Orlomskaya,
98 II, XIV | the current had been of alcohol, the whole river was in
99 II, XIV | population of Irkutsk were on the alert. The measures to repel an
100 I, IV | Samoid, Kamtschatkan, and Aleutian hordes, and one may understand
101 I, I | announced to the Emperor Alexander that Napoleon had just crossed
102 I, II | Blagowstenks, Radde, Orlomskaya, Alexandrowskoe, and Nikolaevsk; and six
103 I, IX | villages, which are almost all alike, with their white-walled,
104 I, X | first time invoking the all-powerful name of the Emperor.~“Forward,
105 I, X | circumstances it might have been allowable to postpone the journey
106 II, XI | one who will not land!”~He alluded to Michael Strogoff.~In
107 II, II | never made the smallest allusion to her son, nor to the unfortunate
108 II, II | the sword already raised aloft. The Russian had perceived
109 II, I | He therefore held himself aloof from his former acquaintances.~
110 II, VIII| halted in the village of Alsalevok, which was as deserted as
111 II, VIII| the road on a level with Alsalevsk. From this little town began
112 I, V | resembles that of Moscow, was altogether abandoned. Even the governor
113 I, V | four deep of enthusiastic amateurs, was a band of “mariners
114 I, II | subdue it.~The fierce and ambitious Feofar now governed this
115 II, VI | trot was exchanged for the amble as soon as Nicholas awoke,
116 II, VI | never touched with the whip, ambled along. Though Michael did
117 I, XIV | in deceptive strategy and ambuscades, stopping short of nothing
118 I, V | a singular, and somewhat American, mode of advertisement.~
119 I, V | total of its transactions amounts yearly to nearly a hundred
120 II, VI | things, his friends were amused by his conversation. One
121 II, VIII| prolonged, to the Tartars’ great amusement, had not a serious accident
122 II, VII | That would not have been so amusing,” exclaimed Nicholas, rubbing
123 II, VII | looking like verdant ships, anchored in the river. Beyond rise
124 II, II | Apache or the hut of an Andaman.~Since her arrival at Omsk,
125 I, IV | collar of the order of St. Andrew, surmounted by a royal crown!~
126 II, VII | the kibitka drifted along anew.~“Hurrah!” exclaimed Nicholas.~
127 I, I | Lancashire gentleman. The Anglo-Norman, formal, cold, grave, parsimonious
128 I, XI | laugh!” said the Briton angrily.~“Certainly, my dear confrere,
129 I, XIV | to see the inexpressible anguish which agitated the revered
130 II, III | Ogareff spoke with great animation. His emotion showed the
131 II, XV | had been sufficient to annihilate the action of the heat.
132 II, I | taken at Kolyvan after the annihilation of the Russian force, which
133 I, VII | obliged to reply, he would announce himself as the merchant
134 II, I | some flourish of trumpets, announcing the arrival of the lieutenant
135 I, IV | Tartar invasion and its annoying consequences.~“All the horses
136 I, II | the Czar. “I have received anonymous communications which did
137 II, IX | days had done for them.~In answering, Michael tried to give Nadia
138 I, II | united the hate due to the antagonism of the Greek and Mussulman
139 II, XIV | putting an end to his blind antagonist?~At last, with a spring
140 I, I | hall and entered a large antechamber adjoining. It was a cabinet
141 II, XIII| gate, deserted, as Ogareff anticipated that it would be, by its
142 I, XIV | her,” replied the mujik, anticipating the anxiety which he read
143 II, VII | He much feared that his anticipations would again be disappointed.~
144 II, II | to leave it. The sort of antipathy which formerly they had
145 II, X | Troitsa, those of Saint Antony and Saint Theodosia, at
146 I, XIV | Tartar soldiers swarmed like ants; but it was easy to see
147 I, I | of chasseurs that his own anxieties should in no way cast a
148 II, IX | climbed some hill and looked anxiously to the Westward, but as
149 II, I | state of things being in anywise altered. The prisoners heard
150 II, II | to share the wigwam of an Apache or the hut of an Andaman.~
151 II, X | Michael, “We owe you some apology for not shaking hands with
152 II, X | been for the unexpected apparition of the third column, come
153 II, XIV | effect upon him. In vain, appealing to his reason, did he tell
154 II, VI | mead had in some degree appeased Michael’s hunger and thirst.
155 I, II | had adopted with regard to applications for the formerly terrible
156 II, IV | the judge’s finger, they apply the sentence whatever it
157 I, V | Caucasus would start at the appointed hour. As he did so, the
158 I, I | own way of observing and appreciating.~The French correspondent
159 II, XII | native town. A letter had apprised him of the death of his
160 I, IV | both extremely simple and appropriate. She was not rich—that could
161 I, VII | cotton dresses, gay-colored aprons, and bright handkerchiefs
162 I, IX | mistrusting the iemschiks, who are apt to sleep at their posts.
163 I, XV | the flight of innumerable aquatic birds, which rose from the
164 II, I | too, might have been seen. Arabs, having the primitive type
165 I, IV | Russian police, which is very arbitrary, it is absolutely useless
166 II, XIV | having traced its diurnal arc for eleven hours above the
167 II, X | they had left the town of Archangel. They had visited the sacred
168 I, VIII| government, and a Greek archbishopric, as well as the seat of
169 I, VIII| over his wrinkled face. His arched back was bent under an old
170 I, I | sprang over fences, with the ardor of pure-blooded racers,
171 I, I | besides, well seconded in his arduous and delicate duties. The
172 I, II | Siberia, covers a superficial area of 1,790,208 square miles,
173 I, XV | vast depression is entirely argillaceous, and therefore impermeable,
174 I, IV | is absolutely useless to argue. Military rank is conferred
175 II, III | abundant, the steppe less arid, the heat less severe. But
176 I, II | had thrown himself into an armchair, he asked, “Your majesty
177 I, IV | Grou-zinia, Kabardinia, and Armenia, Hereditary Lord and Suzerain
178 II, V | forged by the celebrated armorers of Karschi or Hissar.~Behind
179 II, V | incineration of a certain aromatic and resinous substance which
180 II, VIII| Nadia found it difficult to arouse him. The kibitka rolled
181 I, IV | which Alcide Jolivet had aroused. He was not taken for a
182 II, VIII| man whom the least sound arouses.~“Did you not see?” said
183 I, XV | upon the steppe. Nothing arousing his suspicions, he resumed
184 II, XII | sufficiently large numbers to arrest the progress of the Tartar
185 II, II | uttered a few words which arrested the sword already raised
186 I, VIII| Strogoff heard from the new arrivals. This information could
187 II, I | carried the lance, bows, and arrows of Asiatic manufacture;
188 I, I | cathedrals, three palaces, and an arsenal. Around this inclosure could
189 I, II | the cannon to leave the arsenals of the Russian provinces,
190 II, III | one of the great northern arteries. There water would have
191 II, X | shot up from some of those artesian wells which Nature has bored
192 II, I | of red and white sticks artistically interlaced, indicated the
193 I, IX | more prudent not to have ascended the mountains during the
194 II, X | took immense interest in ascertaining what was the state of the
195 I, XIV | firm tone.~“Who am I, thou askest! Dost thou no longer know
196 II, XIII| to hasten by treason and assassination the great object of the
197 II, XIV | not bear the weight of an assaulting column.~This circumstance,
198 I, V | there was already a large assemblage of people—the sun, which
199 I, IV | the variety of characters assembled, a small news exchange.~
200 I, V | ever to be found in such assemblies; Zingaris or Tsiganes— a
201 I, IV | Nijni-Novgorod;—a very mixed assembly, composed of Jews, Turks,
202 I, VIII| secret society having been asserted, he received orders to start
203 II, IV | spy,” answered Ogareff. In asserting that Michael was a spy he
204 II, XII | governor-general confirmed this assertion.~“It is a fortunate circumstance,”
205 II, III | the place which had been assigned him in the ranks.~Why did
206 II, IV | the two inseparables, now associated together in the chase after
207 II, X | curious sight would have assuredly amazed a tourist traveling
208 I, IV | with a freedom which is astonishing, as having broken out between
209 II, I | lastly, the chief of the astrologers, whose great business is
210 I, I | Europe. Two or three of these astute politicians—physiognomists
211 II, XI | break, the fir trunks torn asunder would drift under the hard
212 I, XV | could have afforded an asylum for human beings? Yet it
213 II, VI | kibitka entered the town of Atchinsk, two hundred and fifty miles
214 II, VII | there was no longer an Athenian in this “Northern Athens,”
215 II, VII | Athenian in this “Northern Athens,” as Madame de Bourboulon
216 I, XV | and that she was about to atone, perhaps with her life,
217 II, IX | his neck, according to the atrocious Tartar custom, had been
218 I, XIII| boatmen spoke of horrible atrocities committed by the invaders—
219 I, XII | seemed the farthest point attained by Feofar-Khan’s Tartars,
220 II, XI | must give up all hope of attaining their object.~Had they possessed
221 I, XI | seeing that the horse was attempting to break its traces, and
222 II, XIII| lieutenant wished that all attempts to take the town by force
223 II, V | execution was only one of the attractions, were eagerly expecting
224 II, VIII| and it was impossible to attribute them to others than the
225 I, VI | it annulled all previous au-thorizations, and the routes to Siberia
226 I, I | are provided with large auditory flaps; but, since scientific
227 I, II | the territories of Balkh, Aukoi, and Meimaneh. It possesses
228 I, I | listen and to hear. When his aural apparatus had been once
229 II, X | his aspect was grave and austere. His large great-coat, fastened
230 II, XIII| no possible doubt of the authenticity of this letter, nor of the
231 I, IV | grace of God, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias of Moscow,
232 I, IV | of their inhabitants, the average mortality, etc., and all
233 I, II | city, made illustrious by Avicenna and other learned men of
234 I, VIII| Michael had just spoken— avoiding the slight detour by Perm,
235 I, XI | quiet merchant who always avoids bullets is in a great hurry
236 II, II | shall not wrest from me the avowal that it was you whom I saw
237 I, XIV | torture thee until thou avowest the truth?”~“I have spoken
238 II, XIV | Ogareff stood by a window, awaiting the hour to act. The signal,
239 I, III | he ready to set out?”~“He awaits your majesty’s orders in
240 I, VII | Michael did not like to awaken her. It was evening before
241 I, I | whose walls were this night awakened by the gay strains of the
242 I, VI | immense plain began. The awnings in front of the stalls were
243 II, I | a little short-handled ax, the wounds from which invariably
244 I, IX | the Russian frontier, and axle-trees grow naturally in forests.
245 II, II | his secret to her, woman, aye girl though she was, she
246 I, XVI | She had at her breast a baby but a few months old; shortly
247 I, VII | rye, stretched away to a background of half-cultivated hills,
248 II, I | had been carried on the backs of camels.~The camp contained
249 I, X | even two, by being forced backwards. They slipped, they fell,
250 II, VI | providential inspiration bade her restrain herself and
251 II, I | Thus events were going badly, and the imperial government
252 I, XIV | it was for the purpose of baffling it that a courier had been
253 I, I | city. Below the sculptured balconies were visible numerous sentries,
254 I, I | air, and stepped out on a balcony to breathe the pure atmosphere
255 I, II | accession of the territories of Balkh, Aukoi, and Meimaneh. It
256 I, II | advanced farther than Lake Balkhash, gaining over the Kirghiz
257 I, XV | but by tottering platforms ballasted with thick layers of clay,
258 II, I | made lint of one piece, bandages of the other, took some
259 I, II | sincerely deplored it. What! no banishment for life for other crimes
260 II, I | conical tops waved amidst banners, flags, and pennons of every
261 I, IV | a Russian traveler, in a bantering tone; “you’ll grease your
262 II, X | peasant on his plot of ground; baptis-ing, marrying, burying. He had
263 II, VIII| blind, and their natural barbarity led them to make game of
264 II, XII | the lieutenant of these barbarous chiefs was Ivan Ogareff,
265 I, V | wrangling, haranguing, and bargaining. Everything which can be
266 I, VII | wood interminably long, and barges loaded to the gunwale, and
267 II, VIII| refused to advance. Serko barked furiously.~“What is the
268 I, V | were restricted to their barracks.~Moreover, while no soldiers
269 I, XI | the contents of the second barrel.~This was the report which
270 I, IV | foot-soldiers, twenty-five Baskir horsemen, three hundred
271 II, II | the Turcoman horsemen can bathe their horses in the now
272 II, XIV | of the town. The enemy’s batteries discharged their guns at
273 II, XIII| would be as fatal as the battles of Kolyvan, Tomsk, and Krasnoiarsk.~
274 I, I | of the vast semicircular bay-windows the light, with which the
275 II, X | as they could towards the beach.~Nadia seated on the raft,
276 II, IV | profusion of jewels— gold beads strung on silver threads,
277 II, IX | blow from the formidable beak alighted on his head, and
278 II, IX | the teeth of wolves or the beaks of birds of prey!~Frightful
279 I, IX | temperature was therefore more bearable, but the weather was very
280 I, XIV | eyes he saw the handsome bearded face bending over him, and
281 II, I | lively deep-set eyes, scanty beards— dressed in blue nankeen
282 II, V | Ivan Ogareff and the torch bearers. Did the wretch intend to
283 I, VIII| sometimes large oaks.~But these beauties of nature could not distract
284 I, I | view several immense tables beautifully laid out, and groaning under
285 I, V | instead of going up to his bedroom, again strolled out into
286 I, V | kwass, the ordinary Russian beer, were placed before him,
287 I, XI | to-mor-how, if no accident befalls us, we will arrive together
288 II, XII | words, Sir Merchant, and I beg you to repeat such to them.”~“
289 II, II | train the usual crowd of beggars, freebooters, pedlars, and
290 I, V | receive travelers who only begged leave to be flayed, “morally
291 II, IV | interference on our part in behalf of the young girl would
292 II, VIII| Korpanoff feel, when his eyes behold you, when his arms open
293 I, II | from the Sea of Kara to Behring’s Straits. It is divided
294 I, I | extent, commanded by towers, belfries, minarets, and the cupolas
295 I, V | in his character of “old believer” of the sect of Raskalniks,
296 II, X | as the church of the Old Believers, and they were now on their
297 II, XII | town, with its cupolas, its bell-towers, its steeples slender as
298 II, VII | monumental aspect! Not a Siberian belle, dressed in the last French
299 II, I | Certainly. We are not belligerents; we are neutral, and we
300 I, I | distinct towns: Kitai-Gorod, Beloi-Gorod, Zemlianai-Gorod—European,
301 I, XII | chain. Nevertheless, it belongs to the government of Perm;
302 II, I | you may be sure that my beloved cousin knows all about the
303 II, V | these Persians wore leathern belts embroidered with pearls,
304 I, XVI | second officer, smoking “beng,” the leaf which forms the
305 I, XVII| used a merry refrain of Beranger.~“Hallo!” said Harry Blount.~“
306 II, VI | villages of Ichisnokoe, Berikylokoe, Kuskoe, the river Marunsk,
307 I, V | help smiling at the epithet bestowed on him, dreading spies as
308 I, XII | shrugging his shoulders and bestowing on Michael a glance of anything
309 I, IV | Courland, and of Semigallia, of Bialystok, Karelia, Sougria, Perm,
310 I, IV | Polotsk, Rostov, Jaroslavl, Bielozersk, Oudoria, Obdoria, Kondinia,
311 I, XV | Tartar columns which had bifurcated, one upon Omsk and the other
312 I, V | the wharf, he settled his bill and left the inn. By way
313 I, VII | from the fresh sap of the birch-trees of the country. On hearing
314 I, V | by some good people, the bird-fanciers opened the prison doors
315 II, VIII| crossing the little river Biriousa, the kibitka reached Biriousensk
316 II, VIII| Biriousa, the kibitka reached Biriousensk on the morning of the 4th
317 II, VIII| the Grand Duke.~On leaving Biriousinsk, a hare ran across the road,
318 II, XV | of the Dinka, just before Birskoe, they stopped for a while.
319 I, XII | Had I been present at her birth I might have known.”~Very
320 I, III | of action, who does not bite his nails or scratch his
321 II, XI | fugitives received severe bites.~The struggle did not appear
322 I, VIII| office?” asked Harry Blount, biting his lips.~“That’s exactly
323 II, I | grilled on the coals, or a few bits of that cheese called “kroute,”
324 I, XVI | visiting the copse, but only bivouacking near, to rest their horses
325 II, X | replied Michael.~“But those blackguards have destroyed your sight,”
326 I, II | Verkne-Nertschink, Strelink, Albazine, Blagowstenks, Radde, Orlomskaya, Alexandrowskoe,
327 II, II | mother,” cried Nadia, “do not blame him! He had a secret. A
328 II, XI | houses, built of fir-wood, blazed like torches—a hundred and
329 II, III | but the palm of his hand bled under his nails, which were
330 II, VI | stage? How could her feet, bleeding under that forced march,
331 I, XV | faces covered with hardened blisters of skin, pastured their
332 I, XI | surprise: “Are you coming back, blockhead?”~“You shall have a taste
333 II, IV | highest value. Under her blue-silk petticoat, fell the “zirdjameh”
334 II, XI | Angara. His face, on which a bluish light cast a peculiar hue,
335 I, XII | could not have been the blush of shame, had replaced the
336 II, IV | s representative, it can boast of including in the first
337 II, XI | Fend! fend off with your boat-hook!”~“Before an hour is past
338 II, II | hardships, this contempt of bodily suffering, could only be
339 II, V | as well as Feofar-Khan’s body-guard, to whom this execution
340 II, VI | village of the same name, Bogostowskoe, and, lastly, the Ichoula,
341 II, X | their prayer, the “Slava Bogu,” Glory to God! issued from
342 II, V | race had passed—Turkey, Bohemia, Egypt, Italy, and Spain.
343 II, III | received! Bah! one must boil over sometimes. We should
344 I, VII | contrary to their wishes. The boilers of the Caucasus were under
345 II, X | Magnificent jets, from springs of boiling water, shot up from some
346 II, II | could Marfa guess that a bond of gratitude connected this
347 II, III | devour the remnants of their bones.~As Nadia helped the old
348 II, XV | October, at daybreak, cannon boomed out from the heights around
349 I, X | below them. Besides this, a booming sound filled the air, which
350 I, VII | nearly sinking under water. A bootless voyage they were making,
351 II, I | or whose native countries border on it. There were Usbecks,
352 I, IV | especially in the provinces bordering on the frontier—measures
353 I, X | Arctic Sea, they reach the borders of the Caspian. This was
354 II, X | artesian wells which Nature has bored in the very bed of the lake.
355 I, VII | Cliquot, at six roubles the bottle, made from the fresh sap
356 II, V | which at home, between the Boulevard Montmartre and La Madeleine
357 I, XVI | already advanced beyond the boundaries of the province? Was Feofar-Khan
358 I, XII | the surface, but in its bowels lay hid quantities of iron,
359 I, XI | the fist, in true British boxing style, would have paid his
360 II, IV | carry forever the infamous brand of the knout.”~At this reply
361 II, XI | finished!” said Alcide, brandishing his dagger, red with blood.~
362 I, IX | nostrils. I have seen the brandy in my flask change into
363 II, II | from a sort of impudent bravado, he still wore the uniform
364 I, XIV | evil eye the old woman who braved him to the face. He did
365 II, XII | thoroughly proved their bravery.~“What do the exiles ask?”
366 II, XIII| between Ogareff and one of the bravest defenders of the town, Wassili
367 II, VI | town, they happily found a breach in the inclosure.~The road
368 I, IV | had quickly disappeared. A breakage of the coupling of the luggage-van
369 II, XIV | his footsteps, his very breathing, he endeavored to conceal
370 II, X | browned by the sun, and lake breezes. A thick white beard flowed
371 II, II | except with the greatest brevity. She never made the smallest
372 I, XIII| Only by dint of a large bribe could Michael get over the
373 II, XII | gigantic birches, its houses of brick and wood, some of which
374 I, V | fancy materials, some of bricks of tea, others of masses
375 I, II | General,” said the Czar briefly, “and tell me all you know
376 I, VI | for a moment and her face brightened on recognizing her traveling
377 I, XVI | appeared, above which glared brighter lights waving about in the
378 I, XV | flowers remarkable for the brightness of their color.~Michael
379 I, IX | forehead, hat with a turned-up brim, red belt, coat with crossed
380 II, III | insects which a thunderstorm brings to the surface of the ground.
381 I, XV | atmosphere there seems to bristle with fine needles, and one
382 I, XI | venture to laugh!” said the Briton angrily.~“Certainly, my
383 I, X | if the carriage was taken broadside it must infallibly capsize
384 I, V | caravan teas. European bronzes, Swiss clocks, velvets and
385 II, XII | not only tarantasses but broughams and coaches; lastly, its
386 II, I | ribbons fluttering behind. Brown-skinned Afghans, too, might have
387 I, XVII| he quietly took his hat, brushed it round with his sleeve,
388 II, I | sword-belts of leather with silver buckles, coats gayly braided, and
389 I, VII | Fields, sown with thin buckwheat and rye, stretched away
390 I, XI | spring it would begin to bud.”~“Come then, gentlemen,”
391 II, IV | laid on the ground by a buffet from the young man’s fist.~
392 I, IV | Sougria, Perm, Viatka, Bulgaria, and many other countries;
393 II, VII | horse had been struck by a bullet, he had only by a miracle
394 II, XII | town, and Irkutsk, the last bulwark of the Muscovite power in
395 II, XIV | struck it and lighted a small bunch of tow, impregnated with
396 II, XI | surface of the sea, which buoys it up, its density being
397 II, VIII| liked to give it decent burial, that the wild beasts of
398 II, XI | on the Yuen-Kiang, in the Burman Empire, springs of mineral
399 II, IV | seen of the invasion, its burnings, its pillages, its murders,
400 II, III | Only a few stunted and burnt-up shrubs here and there break
401 I, XII | when it pays better to burrow beneath the earth? The pickaxe
402 I, VI | these two thunder-claps bursting over a town like Nijni-Novgorod,
403 II, XV | settled for a time in Irkutsk, busied themselves in putting the
404 I, VIII| unconcernedly watched the bustle which occurs at all quays
405 I, V | fear that, lost in this busy city, she might be exposed
406 I, IX | with crossed facings and buttons stamped with the imperial
407 I, XI | Michael bounded round the buttress behind which the young girl
408 I, V | passed among the groups of buyers and sellers he discovered
409 I, XV | could rely upon him. In buying him at Omsk he had been
410 I, VII | extended by the other.~“By the bye,” said the first, “I was
411 I, III | his name with the words “Byt po semou,” which, signifying “
412 I, VII | to engage two first-class cabins, so that his young companion
413 I, V | allowed to escape from the cages in which they had been brought
414 II, VIII| dozen “pogatchas,” a kind of cake prepared with sheep’s fat
415 II, VIII| according to Michael’s calculations, now made almost eight miles
416 I, IX | of all the saints in the calendar, when they behaved like
417 II, XII | few in number and of small caliber. The Tartar troops as they
418 I, XV | stinging, to which the most callous Siberian hunters have never
419 II, XIII| prisoner!”~The Grand Duke grew calmer, and by a significant gesture
420 II, VII | drink made of mare’s or camel’s milk, and is very sustaining,
421 II, I | quite so sure,” said Blount candidly.~“Nonsense, stupid! All
422 I, XV | amongst this undergrowth of cane, was no longer visible from
423 I, X | as though it had been a cannon-ball, then crushing to powder
424 I, XI | I have little love for cannon-balls or lance points, and am
425 II, VII | can reach. A raft, even a canoe?”~Nicholas and Nadia, grasping
426 II, IV | rival the greatest European capitals. It is a city of millionaires,
427 II, XIII| dreamed of even speaking of a capitulation. The contempt of the Russians
428 II, II | This was the secret of the capricious Emir.~This army had not
429 I, X | broadside it must infallibly capsize and be dashed over the precipice.
430 II, I | Irtych boats, and no doubt a captive, as Marfa Strogoff was.
431 I, XI | his foot firm on the huge carcass, he was indeed worth looking
432 I, I | conjurors who recognize a card merely by a rapid movement
433 II, III | have paid for the slightest carelessness with their heads.~At nightfall
434 II, X | islands near the coast of Carelia, the convent of Solovetsk,
435 II, VI | morrow, after some hours of carousal, the scouts of the Emir,
436 II, II | velvet-pile of a Bokharian carpet.~The Emir approached Ogareff
437 I, XVI | on the thick grass which carpeted the ground. The men meantime
438 I, XVII| fame soon spread around: He carries weight! he rides a race! ’
439 I, V | precious stones, silks, Cashmere shawls, Turkey carpets,
440 I, XII | compared to those of the Castilians, without the haughtiness
441 I, VIII| Tsiganes have the eyes of a cat! They can see in the dark;
442 I, I | inclosure, from which rose two cathedrals, three palaces, and an arsenal.
443 II, I | dragging with them like cattle; but by approaching Tomsk
444 I, XI | come to seek refuge in this cave, doubtless its habitual
445 I, IV | hemp-seed, nor salt meat, nor caviare, nor wood, nor wool, nor
446 II, I | representing the priests; the “cazi-askev,” who, in the Emir’s absence
447 II, IX | do not know if fate will cease to go against us; but the
448 I, I | they displayed. The rich ceiling, with its gilding already
449 II, XI | establish a barrier, by cementing with frost the blocks of
450 II, III | happiness of his life was centered, and whom he should leave
451 II, V | fastened by strings to their centers, resounded in the breeze
452 II, II | which to them appeared like centuries, it would seem that the
453 I, XI | Do you know, with any certainty, where this Tartar invasion
454 I, I | regiments had played without cessation polkas, mazurkas, schottisches,
455 II, XIV | the palace. It was a large chamber on the ground floor, its
456 I, I | their aides-de-camp, the chamberlains-in-waiting and other officers of the
457 II, I | time the Khan thinks of changing his quarters.~When the prisoners
458 II, XI | employed by whalers to cut channels through the ice-fields—had
459 II, X | hung at the belt, and they chanted psalms in a plaintive voice:
460 I, IX | white-walled, green-roofed chapels, the traveler might knock
461 II, IV | strung on silver threads, chaplets of turquoises, “firouzehs”
462 I, III | men. His most discernible characteristic—particularly in his walk,
463 I, I | defined their particular characteristics by saying, that if the Frenchman
464 I, IX | bread and salt, the burning charcoal would be put into the “samovar,”
465 I, X | Not even the fire of a charcoal-burner was visible in the woods,
466 II, XII | Irkutsk. He was clever and charitable, and also possessed the
467 I, V | return for a few copecks charitably offered by some good people,
468 I, VIII| caught you up again, by chartering a boat at my cousin’s expense,
469 I, I | around this chef-d’oeuvre of chased gold reflected under the
470 I, X | planks thrown over some chasm, thunder appearing actually
471 I, I | exchange with each other the chat of the day. They were sportsmen,
472 I, XI | Walking along, Alcide Jolivet chattered away as usual, with his
473 I, VII | country. On hearing them chatting away together, Michael Strogoff
474 II, IV | Ivan Ogareff— the Scarred Cheek, as he was already nick-named—
475 I, IV | her pale and somewhat thin cheeks by delicately mobile nostrils.
476 II, I | coals, or a few bits of that cheese called “kroute,” made of
477 I, I | London, and around this chef-d’oeuvre of chased gold reflected
478 I, V | pocket, the other holding his cherry-stemmed pipe, appeared the most
479 I, IV | Siberia, Czar of the Tauric Chersonese, Seignior of Pskov, Prince
480 I, VII | their numerous bales and chests in the hold and on the deck;
481 II, VIII| passed through the village of Chibarlinskoe. Here an incident occurred
482 I, XIV | of the most savage Tartar chieftains, was an educated soldier.
483 I, IX | reindeer coat, my heart growing chill, my limbs stiffening, my
484 II, VII | cathedral was dumb; the chimes of the churches were silent.
485 I, VII | that, when the steamer’s chimney sent forth a plume of ruddy
486 I, I | and waltzes from among the choicest of their repertoires. Innumerable
487 II, III | It is he!” replied Nadia, choking with emotion. “He lives,
488 II, XII | ignorant of their intention of choosing him for their captain.~When
489 II, V | cymbals. Then, after the last chorus, the remainder surrounded
490 I, V | powdered sugar mixed with cinnamon, and a jug of kwass, the
491 I, IX | stamped with the imperial cipher. The iemschik, on coming
492 I, I | Georgians, Cossacks, and Circassians—a brilliant band, splendidly
493 II, V | glittered in their ears. Circles of silver, marked with black,
494 I, XV | past made him more and more circumspect in the present and the future.
495 I, IV | that the talkers used much circumspection. When they did happen to
496 II, VII | eddy, like a rider in a circus. The horse could scarcely
497 II, III | Siberians, soldiers and civilians, numbered some thousands,
498 II, XI | rugged ice over which they clambered, but still on they went.~
499 I, VII | Exactly at the hour the last clang of the bell sounded, the
500 I, V | shouted on every side. A loud clapping of hands was suddenly raised,
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