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501 II, V | sound of cymbals, which clashed on their arms, and by the
502 II, V | and deafening him with the clashing of her cymbals. Then, after
503 II, XV | house of the Strogoffs. She clasped passionately in her arms
504 I, X | snorting of the horses, and the clattering of their iron hoofs among
505 II, VII | swept through the wide, clean streets. Not a pedestrian
506 I, VIII| pretty, all possessing the clear-cut features of their race.
507 I, IV | of her high forehead and clearly-cut features gave the idea that
508 II, XIV | the traitor between his clenched teeth.~“Ivan Ogareff!” exclaimed
509 I, XII | telegraphic station the clerks transmitted messages delivered
510 I, XIII| poles, which they handled cleverly; but as they gained the
511 II, VII | bushes on the edge of the cliff, bent over the water. The
512 II, X | territory, subject to peculiar climatical conditions, the autumn appears
513 II, IX | scouts.~At each halt, Nadia climbed some hill and looked anxiously
514 I, VII | forward deck, and was already climbing the forecastle ladder, when
515 I, VIII| browned by the suns of every clime, was pulled forward over
516 II, VII | Nadia was silent, her hands clinging to the sides of the cart,
517 I, VII | table, drinking genuine Cliquot, at six roubles the bottle,
518 I, VIII| back was bent under an old cloak, wrapped closely round him,
519 I, V | European bronzes, Swiss clocks, velvets and silks from
520 I, XV | differing greatly from the close-cropped sod of the steppe, where
521 I, XVI | Ages. Their tunics were close-fitting, and confined at the waist
522 II, I | them, little caps of dark cloth; if with these groups are
523 II, II | August, under a hot sun and cloudless sky, that the toptschi-baschi
524 I, VII | have soundly abused the clumsy fellow who roused them with
525 I, VI | like a drowning man who clutches at a spar, she was about
526 I, IX | the invention of Russian coach-builders will devise some improvement
527 II, XII | tarantasses but broughams and coaches; lastly, its numerous inhabitants
528 I, IX | salt, platina, gold, and coal are worked here on a large
529 I, XII | repeated the traveler, adding coarseness to brutality.~“No,” answered
530 II, X | sacred islands near the coast of Carelia, the convent
531 I, XV | Chinese in name, had to be coasted for more than twenty versts,
532 I, IX | sleigh horses covered with a coating of ice, their breath congealed
533 I, XVI | officers wore helmets and half coats-of-mail; little trumpets fastened
534 I, X | sometimes scolding, sometimes coaxing his poor beasts, who were
535 II, IX | those of a corpse in its coffin! The miserable wretch, living
536 I, XIV | was because he had some cogent reasons for acting thus!
537 I, IV | Siberia, and environed by the collar of the order of St. Andrew,
538 II, X | waist a little padlocked collecting-box, as if it had been hung
539 II, VIII| the road— in consequence, collisions and falls, which might have
540 II, XV | which attack the Russian Colossus must be, was very fatal
541 II, XIV | himself that in so unequal a combat all the advantages were
542 I, XVII| became evident that the combatants were rapidly moving southwards.
543 II, V | whose style of dancing was a combination of that of all those countries
544 II, V | of sparks, whose infinite combinations varied at each movement
545 II, XIII| of the troops which have combined to stop the invasion?”~“
546 I, V | their most original dances; comedians of foreign theaters, acting
547 II, V | to see our goings out and comings in, Russian spy. You have
548 I, XV | sent to all the various commandants, in order to prevent his
549 II, III | orders had been given to the commanders of the convoy to reach Tomsk
550 II, X | the stern, and issued his commands by gestures. Besides, the
551 II, XIV | that they were about to commence the assault. The Grand Duke
552 II, I | forms the Kirghiz dish, commonly called “koumyss.” And this
553 II, I | considerable atmospheric commotions, bringing squalls mingled
554 II, VIII| now to meet?~He did not communicate his apprehensions either
555 I, II | have received anonymous communications which did not pass through
556 II, XIII| are acquainted, Fedor, by comparing the date on which his daughter
557 I, XII | traced by a sweep of the compasses. The steppe presents nothing
558 II, X | blind!”~A feeling of lively compassion exhibited itself on the
559 II, VI | comfortably as possible. The compassionate young man was greatly moved,
560 II, XII | engineer, was perfectly competent to direct a regular siege;
561 II, XIII| necessary preparations were completed in the Russian provinces
562 I, XVII| returned he heard Jolivet completing his telegram by singing
563 I, XIV | carry it to a successful completion?~The blow which had struck
564 I, VIII| and well made, with olive complexion, magnificent eyes, and golden
565 II, I | back; round faces, swarthy complexions, lively deep-set eyes, scanty
566 II, XIII| Grand Duke, through whose compressed lips the words could scarcely
567 II, I | sleep and a few cold water compresses are all that are required
568 I, II | The purely Mongolian race comprises the Mongols, Manchoux, and
569 II, III | which he might have been compromised. And yet, when he saw Nadia,
570 II, IV | ballet?” asked Blount.~“The compulsory ballet, to be sure. But
571 I, XIII| cried one of them to his comrade.~The shout was occasioned
572 I, XII | him additional means for concealing his true character. He delighted
573 I, XIV | courier of the Czar, seeking concealment under a false name, and
574 I, IV | I have heard speak of a concentration of troops on the frontier.
575 II, III | not a word, not a sign. It concerns him, and not me.”~At that
576 II, XIII| it, would no doubt have concluded thus: that Nadia had not
577 I, X | The ground, struck by the concussion, trembled as though the
578 I, XIV | The mujik was accordingly conducting his guest straight to the
579 I, IV | argue. Military rank is conferred on its employees, and they
580 I, IX | enough for it. It must be confessed that sometimes the ropes
581 II, II | of his exile in Siberia.~Confidante and accomplice, Sangarre,
582 I, XIV | he had gone to seek his confidants. Sangarre and her Zingari,
583 II, XIV | terrified and at the same time confident, watched this terrible scene
584 I, VIII| himself with asking questions, confiding in his memory, which never
585 I, VII | was impossible. He must confine himself to listening.~The
586 II, XI | was to be dreaded from the conflagrations on both banks of the Angara,
587 I, VIII| humble attitude, little conformable with the effrontery natural
588 I, IX | on, you wretched snail! Confound you, you slug! I’ll roast
589 I, IV | Michael Strogoff boldly confronted and prepared to encounter.~
590 II, XIII| no, I am mistaken— I was confusing dates. Unfortunately, it
591 I, IX | coating of ice, their breath congealed at their nostrils. I have
592 II, VII | companions could not but congratulate themselves on the discovery.~“
593 II, XIV | He had good reason for congratulating himself. The diversion which
594 II, XIII| everywhere received with cordial congratulations from officers, soldiers,
595 II, XI | calm. Even in the gravest conjunctures, his energy had never abandoned
596 I, I | instantaneous as that of those conjurors who recognize a card merely
597 I, VIII| physician at Riga. But his connection with some secret society
598 I, VIII| slight detour by Perm, also connects Kasan with Ishim. It is
599 II, IV | prepared, with the air of a connoisseur, “to examine the first act
600 II, II | himself en route with the conquerors of Kolyvan, joined Feofar’
601 II, VI | showed the calmness of his conscience. Perhaps then, by looking
602 I, IX | behaved like docile and conscientious animals! The string which
603 I, XI | the telga, which was still conscientiously imbedded as far as the center
604 II, VI | it appeared likely would considerably ease their fatigue. They
605 II, VIII| be said to be precocious, considering that during them the thermometer
606 II, XI | seemed to be of a slimy consistency, as if it had been made
607 I, XVI | advanced as quickly as was consistent with safety. He trusted
608 II, II | left a desert behind them.~Conspicuous among the gypsies who had
609 I, XIV | was acquainted with this conspiracy, and that it was for the
610 II, II | appearing to notice, was constantly watched by the Tsigane Sangarre.
611 I, IV | leather, which seemed to constitute all her luggage. Then seating
612 I, IV | therefore his neighbors, without constraint, gossiped in his presence,
613 II, X | down Siberian rivers, was constructed. A forest of firs, growing
614 II, I | whose great business is to consult the stars every time the
615 II, II | to the Turcoman horses to consume. It is to take Irkutsk,
616 I, XVI | the torches were entirely consumed, and now went out, the darkness
617 II, XIII| of being prevented from consummating his act of treason. He examined
618 I, V | at fairs, and with whom contact, either physical or moral,
619 II, VIII| treatment, Nicholas could not contain himself; he endeavored to
620 II, XII | Siberia, is a populous town, containing, in ordinary times, thirty
621 I, XI | and the other gloomily contemplating his situation, and recognized
622 I, IX | appearance too. He looked contemptuous.~“Crows,” said he, without
623 I, XIII| directly, and looking rather contemptuously at the young man, waited
624 I, VIII| observation; Alcide Jolivet contenting himself with asking questions,
625 I, VIII| guard against any possible contingency. He was thinking of seeking
626 II, I | Koundouge had furnished a contingent nearly equal to that of
627 II, VI | afresh.~However, amidst these continual miseries, a fortunate circumstance
628 II, XI | terminate. The pack was being continually reinforced from the right
629 I, X | lightning began to blaze continuously in the sky. The shadows
630 I, V | men; yet, from a certain contraction of his eyebrows every now
631 II, XV | which—a rare thing— did not contradict each other even on the least
632 I, I | cared little for dress, his contrasting strongly with the gorgeous
633 I, XIV | avoid Ivan Ogareff, and contrive not to be seen. When the
634 I, X | iemschik had no longer any control over his team.~At that moment
635 I, XI | Ishim, he thought it rather convenient than otherwise to make that
636 II, XIV | Tartar detachments were converging towards the camp, and from
637 I, I | their interest to meet and converse.~This evening they were
638 I, II | copecks a word, the post conveys the dispatches to Pekin
639 I, XII | deadly pale. His hands moved convulsively as if he would have knocked
640 II, VIII| fine, but the air, which cooled during the night, took some
641 II, VI | everything, and I have not a copeck to offer you; but if you
642 II, VIII| parallel, that of Edinburgh and Copenhagen. However, winter succeeds
643 II, I | affair at Kolyvan.”~“How many copies does your cousin work off
644 I, V | descendants of the ancient Copts—singing their wildest melodies
645 I, VIII| raven locks streaming~Rich coral around~My graceful neck
646 II, XIII| everywhere received with cordial congratulations from officers,
647 I, XII | Michael with the intention of cordially shaking his, when the sound
648 II, XII | ravages. The harvests of corn and fodder were collected
649 II, XV | and volatiliz-ing on the cornea, had saved his sight. The
650 II, IV | of Elbourz, necklaces of cornelians, agates, emeralds, opals,
651 I, XI | squalls, checked by the corners, formed eddies highly dangerous,
652 I, X | the Russian name, they are correctly so termed; for these names
653 I, I | Madeleine. It is with her that I correspond, and she likes to be quickly
654 I, I | a jocular manner that he corresponded with “his cousin Madeleine.”
655 II, V | this troupe of veritable corybantes. A young Tsigane, of about
656 I, II | stations, that is to say, those Cossack posts which are ranged in
657 I, V | silks from Lyons, English cottons, harness, fruits, vegetables,
658 I, VII | mujiks, accustomed to hard couches, and quite satisfied with
659 I, XIV | force at Omsk, and thou couldst, perhaps, pass unperceived.”~“
660 II, XIV | and below the town, and he counselled the Duke to reinforce the
661 II, III | courier of the Czar, he counted, then, not on her, but on
662 I, X | strike it obliquely. But the counter-currents, directed towards it by
663 I, X | struck to the ground by a counter-shock, but, regaining his feet,
664 II, X | by a strong breeze, which counteracted the course of the current,
665 II, XII | dug between the scarp and counterscarp. The town could not now
666 I, IX | for two persons, without counting the iemschik, who kept his
667 I, V | again see their shops and counting-houses for another year to come.
668 II, XIV | Tartar, and against his own countrymen!~The tow had been thrown
669 II, XII | could not now be taken by a coup de main. It must be invested
670 I, I | repertoires. Innumerable couples of dancers whirled through
671 II, V | During the singing of each couplet, of very peculiar rhythm,
672 I, IV | disappeared. A breakage of the coupling of the luggage-van had first
673 I, IV | Prince of Esthonia, Livonia, Courland, and of Semigallia, of Bialystok,
674 I, IV | Russians, Poles, Lithuanians, Courlanders. Add to these, Finns, Laplanders,
675 II, VIII| forests of pines or cedars covering an extent of a hundred versts.
676 I, XVII| endeavoring to gain the covert of some trees when a detachment
677 I, XIII| made me patient even to cowardice with the villain who—” He
678 II, IV | feeling indignant.~“It is cowardly—let us go,” said Alcide.~“
679 II, XI | branches of birch. They cowered down together, endeavoring
680 II, X | Irkutsk, wearing the robe, the cowl, and the clothes of serge.~
681 I, XVII| the well-known verses of Cowper.~Whilst he was working Blount
682 I, VII | aspens, were scattered a few cows, sheep, and herds of pigs.
683 I, IX | was answered by a merry crack of the whip.~In the language
684 I, IX | urging them on by startling cracks of his whip. But what epithets
685 I, XIII| boatmen managed to keep the craft against the stream, and
686 II, IV | his allies before being crammed with their companions into
687 I, X | was disturbed. Successive crashes showed that many of the
688 I, XVI | far into the wood.~Michael crawled up to his horse through
689 II, IX | to call again. Michael, crawling on the ground, felt about
690 I, X | tarantass over the road, the creaking of the axles, the snorting
691 I, V | stuffing swimming in thick cream, barley bread, some curds,
692 II, II | or Kolyvan. These unhappy creatures were not led to the enclosure—
693 I, XVII| terrible events, was scarcely credible.~“And is not the wire cut?”
694 I, XVII| Gilpin was a citizen of credit and renown; a train-band
695 II, XIII| would certainly not have credited what they heard.~The Grand
696 II, VIII| hesitation, without sharing his credulity, and endeavored to reassure
697 I, V | telling fortunes to the credulous fools who are ever to be
698 I, II | banishment for life for other crimes than those against social
699 II, XIII| should be warned of the criminal projects of Ivan Ogareff
700 I, XVII| artillery, and above it a crisp rattle which could not be
701 I, IV | Muscovite government, or even to criticize them.~This was especially
702 II, II | mail of gold and silver, cross-belt and scabbard glistening
703 I, X | joined one to the other by a crossbar, fixed by means of pins
704 I, X | driver and he were obliged to crouch upon the ground to avoid
705 I, VIII| from Kasan to Perm were crowding on the deck.~Michael noticed
706 II, XIII| Duke the Imperial letter, crumpled to almost microscopic size.~“
707 I, X | been a cannon-ball, then crushing to powder the flints on
708 II, XI | would drift under the hard crust, and the unhappy people
709 I, XII | How can hands be found to cultivate the land, when it pays better
710 I, XII | Here, indeed, were few cultivated fields; the soil was poor,
711 II, III | immense plain. There was no cultivation, for there was no water;
712 II, XIII| endeavoring in vain to curb his passion.~“I speak the
713 I, V | cream, barley bread, some curds, powdered sugar mixed with
714 I, XVI | necessary. Wreaths of smoke curling upwards on the horizon showed
715 II, VII | width was considerable, its currents strong. Ordinarily by means
716 II, VI | father!”~“My father would curse me, Michael, were I to abandon
717 I, IV | Nijni-Novgorod, at a sharp curve of the iron way, the train
718 I, IX | performed many an eccentric curvette as they went along. The
719 II, II | on their gold-embroidered cushions; but Feofar rose from a
720 I, X | the circumference of the cyclone, neither man nor beast could
721 I, XVI | These words were so many dagger-thrusts for Michael. He was known
722 II, V | dinning in his ears with her daire, and deafening him with
723 I, XI | hunters, who endeavor not to damage the precious fur of the
724 I, IX | their vehicles, more or less damaged by the long journey across
725 II, V | curved saber, one of those Damascene blades which are forged
726 I, III | tempered by snow like a Damascus blade in the waters of Syria,
727 I, I | shadows of the heavy masses of damask.~Through the panes of the
728 I, XV | swamp-plants, to which the dampness of the place, assisted by
729 II, V | very peculiar rhythm, a dancer took her position by him
730 I, XVII| homme, Tout habille de gris, Dans Paris!”~Imitating his rival,
731 II, XIV | Let him come on, if he dares! I am ready for him.”~In
732 I, VII | latitude, the sky scarcely darkened between sunset and dawn,
733 II, IX | replied Michael, his brow darkening.~Then later he added, “I
734 II, VI | rich blue of the iris was darker than formerly. The eyelashes
735 I, XVII| his lines; but to stop, dart on the shell, seize it in
736 I, XV | protect him against the darts of these dipterals. It is
737 II, VII | called it. Not one of their dashing equipages swept through
738 II, XIII| mistaken— I was confusing dates. Unfortunately, it is too
739 II, X | determination of henceforward dating their letters from the Russian
740 I, X | in fine weather and broad daylight, offers difficulties and
741 I, I | before his eyes, as though, dazzled by the brilliancy of the
742 I, IX | each horse, and the tips dealt out so freely, recommended
743 II, V | varied noises of a wild debauch. Tomsk, illuminated, glittered
744 I, XIV | this moment a detachment debouched from the principal square
745 II, XII | paid with their blood their debt to holy Russia—holy as they
746 I, XIV | secret or to set some trap. Deceitful by nature, he willingly
747 I, XIV | Strogoff. “A resemblance deceives you.”~The old Marfa went
748 II, VIII| would have liked to give it decent burial, that the wild beasts
749 I, XIV | and in every species of deception. Further, he was cruel,
750 I, XIV | Mongolian blood, he delighted in deceptive strategy and ambuscades,
751 II, VIII| employed his enforced holiday.~“Decidedly,” said he, “this is pleasanter
752 II, XV | winter was terrible, and, decimated by the cold, only a small
753 I, III | many words to those who can decipher them. Moreover, tempered
754 I, V | has received the route,” declared another.~“They say that
755 I, XIII| difficulties about starting, declaring that detachments of Tartars
756 II, IX | cinders and the already decomposing corpses.~There was nothing
757 I, I | distinguished by no uniform, no decoration, at this reception in the
758 I, V | separate quarter particularly dedicated to some special branch of
759 I, III | vigorous, broad-shouldered, deep-chested man. His powerful head possessed
760 II, I | swarthy complexions, lively deep-set eyes, scanty beards— dressed
761 II, I | could not fail eventually to defeat the savage hordes of the
762 I, XVII| from the town. Russians defeated. Fiercely pursued by the
763 II, XIII| Irkutsk by exaggerating the defeats, he added, “And a third
764 II, XII | left bank. On this side, defence was easy. The suburbs were
765 I, XVI | with red. They were armed defensively with a shield, and offensively
766 II, II | Ogareff replied coldly to the deference paid to him. He was plainly
767 II, III | Ivan Ogareff the prisoners defiled, one by one, past Marfa,
768 II, I | when they found themselves definitely established in the enclosure,
769 I, III | courage,” according to the definition of the physiologist. He
770 II, XIII| Grand Duke to a humiliating degradation.”~“Yes, I remember. But
771 I, II | secret intrigues, and was degraded from his rank by his Highness
772 II, XIV | your life! It is a duel I deign to offer you! My knife against
773 I, III | guided by the instinct of the Delaware of North America, over the
774 I, XII | messages delivered to them, delaying for State dispatches alone.~
775 I, XV | difficulty. Hence certain delays occurred, which all the
776 II, III | read and re-read the letter deliberately, as if he was determined
777 I, I | seconded in his arduous and delicate duties. The grand-dukes
778 I, VII | benches, they inhaled with delight the slight breeze caused
779 II, I | romantic than this picture, in delineating which the most skillful
780 I, IV | preference to others, or in demanding conveyances for his personal
781 I, XII | right to resist the unjust demands of the traveler.~Michael
782 I, I | of lofty stature, affable demeanor, and physiognomy calm, though
783 I, XII | sound telga, the famous demi-carriage which had managed to take
784 I, XI | with your horse and our demi-telga we will go to the world’
785 II, XIV | It was only necessary to demolish a piece of wall in order
786 II, VIII| empty, some had been partly demolished, others half burnt down.
787 I, V | the confusion, the hubbub; demonstrative as were the natives and
788 II, XIV | trying to retreat into its den, step by step, terrified,
789 I, XIV | thought occurred to her. She denied by her son! It was not possible.
790 II, I | included under the general denomination of the Tartar army.~Nothing
791 I, III | slightly-projecting lips which denote a generous and noble heart.~
792 I, VI | like Nijni-Novgorod, so densely crowded with visitors, and
793 I, XIV | anything in the world I would deny a son whom God has given
794 I, VI | forms before they could depart.~Without this precaution,
795 II, X | Tartars into Tomsk, they had departed before the savage execution
796 II, IV | to the Emir, who, without departing from the coldness which
797 I, II | pass through the police department; and, in the face of events
798 I, III | take this letter; on it depends the safety of all Siberia,
799 I, II | chief of police sincerely deplored it. What! no banishment
800 I, XV | Tartar invasion had not yet depopulated this little town of Kamsk.
801 I, XIII| great fear was lest, in the depopulation of the towns, he should
802 I, XVII| said the clerk.~Blount deposited a pile of roubles on the
803 I, XVII| had done, after quietly depositing a respectable pile of roubles
804 I, XII | the Irtych, to escape the depredations of the invaders.~Happily,
805 I, XV | Michael Strogoff left the last depressions of the Baraba, and the dry
806 II, X | its breadth seventy. Its depth is not known. Madame de
807 I, XV | versts in length and breadth, deserve the name of lakes. In other
808 II, XIII| invasion of barbarians, deserved it.”~“His Majesty the Czar,”
809 II, XV | history of his trials, which deserves to be related.~ ~
810 II, II | Petersburg?” said Feofar-Khan, designating the Emperor of Russia by
811 II, XIII| Ogareff. He had taken the designation of the man whom he believed
812 II, VI | have read in that sweet desolate gaze a world of devotion
813 II, II | humiliation did you not despise this Nicholas Korpanoff?”~“
814 I, VIII| I learnt the news.”~“And despite it, you continued your journey?”~“
815 I, II | police, accustomed to the despotic sentences of the ukase which
816 II, XI | and the blocks, gradually detaching themselves from the floe,
817 II, IV | crowd, so as to lose no detail of a festival which ought
818 I, I | profession— failed not to detect on the countenance of their
819 I, X | done, to avoid still longer detentions. The very violence of the
820 II, XII | officers, had collected to determine upon various proposals.~“
821 II, XIV | Nadia, knowing well that so detested a name would soon bring
822 II, V | re-echo with the sudden detonations of their firearms, which
823 I, VIII| spoken— avoiding the slight detour by Perm, also connects Kasan
824 II, XI | or were compelled to make detours; now, to avoid running foul
825 II, I | flag of incendiaries and devastators.~Among these free soldiers
826 I, IV | literal sense of the term, the development of her high forehead and
827 I, IX | Russian coach-builders will devise some improvement in this
828 I, XV | certain of his road and devoid of doubt or hesitation,
829 I, XVII| left of the town. Fire was devouring one entire quarter of Kolyvan.~
830 II, I | versts beyond the town of Diachinks, stretches a wide plain,
831 I, V | above all else.~In the same dialect, although his accent was
832 I, III | understood its different dialects— not only from having traveled
833 I, XI | forthcoming French and Russian dictionary: “Telga, a Russian carriage
834 I, VII | second drily.~“Really, I didn’t expect to be so closely
835 I, XV | midst of a grassy prairie, differing greatly from the close-cropped
836 I, XVI | each other by their shouts, digging their spurs into their horses’
837 II, IV | composed the main part of his dignity, received them in a way
838 II, VI | the road. It was a very dilapidated vehicle, known in the country
839 I, XIII| swept down the river. By diligent use of the poles, putting
840 I, XVI | shadowy form moving in the dim light, “Look out!” he shouted.~
841 II, XIV | these reservoirs of enormous dimensions rushed the naphtha in torrents,
842 I, I | could discern, standing out dimly in the darkness, the vague
843 II, XI | by little the glare grew dimmer, the crackling became fainter,
844 I, XII | obliged to breakfast or dine, she sat at table, but was
845 II, V | she resumed her dance, dinning in his ears with her daire,
846 I, I | dignitaries or members of the diplomatic corps who represented at
847 II, XV | a workman smelter, after dipping his hand in vapor, can with
848 I, XV | against the darts of these dipterals. It is a dreary region,
849 II, XII | and the allied Khans were directing the invasion in person,
850 II, II | undisputed sovereign, who directs at his pleasure the life
851 I, IX | attractive, being extremely dirty, and without resources.
852 II, II | her eyes with a lance and disappearing beneath the waters of the
853 II, I | conquered by the series of disasters which, since the adventure
854 II, VII | been performed the least disastrously.~“That would not have been
855 I, I | the windows, they could discern, standing out dimly in the
856 I, IV | of negligence was to be discerned in her dress. All her luggage
857 I, III | those picked men. His most discernible characteristic—particularly
858 I, XVII| white clouds produced by discharges of artillery.~The Usbeck
859 I, XIV | iron imposed upon them a discipline to which they were little
860 II, XV | had read the letter which disclosed the odious plans of the
861 I, I | saloon were thrown open, disclosing to view several immense
862 I, XII | Michael’s advantage. Their discomfiture was visible. How could this
863 I, IX | but this, of course, was discontinued. Even if it had not been
864 II, VII | questioned Nicholas, who made the discouraging reply that the crossing
865 II, VII | congratulate themselves on the discovery.~“Save one,” said Michael, “
866 I, IV | book, “Travelers of great discretion. Very close as to political
867 I, XII | which he did not care to discuss with his companion.~Alcide
868 I, II | his master. But the Czar, disdaining to reply to these indirect
869 I, XIII| as men and beasts could disembark without accident. The two
870 II, VII | rubbing his hands, as they disembarked on the right bank of the
871 I, IV | Siberian hunter can so neatly disembowel a bear, without injuring
872 I, XVI | current.~His master, speedily disentangling himself from his stirrups,
873 II, XIII| on his head. His face was disfigured by a recently-healed scar.
874 I, II | that Ogareff owes his first disgrace; and what is more serious
875 I, XI | do you know that he went disguised as a gypsy!” asked Blount.~“
876 I, XIV | excelling in the adoption of all disguises and in every species of
877 II, II | the midst of a Tartar camp disgusts me; and although, thanks
878 II, I | milk, forms the Kirghiz dish, commonly called “koumyss.”
879 I, IX | not have found their name dishonored by these “eagles” of the
880 II, XII | Grand Duke was about to dismiss his officers and retire
881 I, XV | his horse. Now he would dismount to ease his steed for a
882 I, VI | reflections were completely dispelled by another which drove every
883 II, XI | and then a burst of light dispelling the darkness for a time,
884 I, II | rebels and invaders he must display almost superhuman courage
885 I, XII | command.~“I have no more disposable horses,” answered the postmaster,
886 II, XII | cathedral, and dwellings disposed in picturesque disorder.~
887 I, XII | afraid that the traveler will dispute the horses with you?”~“I
888 I, I | of their host symptoms of disquietude, the source of which eluded
889 I, I | account in their papers. The dissimilarity of their characters, added
890 II, XIV | direction. A bright light dissipated the darkness of the night.~“
891 I, XIII| current, at nearly equal distances from either shore, and being
892 I, XII | He had been fortunate in distancing the berlin. Only three horses
893 I, XVI | their saddle-bows were the distinctive signs of their rank.~The
894 II, II | the emphatic turn which distinguishes the languages of the Orientals. “
895 I, VIII| beauties of nature could not distract the thoughts of the young
896 II, XIV | from each other.~Nadia ran distracted through the passages, calling
897 II, XII | The political exiles, distributed over the province, had been
898 II, XIII| the Grand Duke with some distrust, he let nothing of it appear,
899 I, VII | care, therefore, not to disturb anyone. By going thus to
900 I, IV | the journey, the slight disturbance she caused among those around
901 I, V | discussed before her the disturbances in Siberia— and she did
902 I, IV | Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn, Dittmarsen, and Oldenburg.” A powerful
903 II, XIV | five, having traced its diurnal arc for eleven hours above
904 II, II | Feofar rose from a rich divan which occupied the back
905 II, III | a stream they must have diverged fifty versts eastward, to
906 I, IV | contained a population of such diverse elements. Perhaps among
907 II, VI | Ichoula, a little stream which divides Western from Eastern Siberia.
908 I, I | obtained a peculiar power of divining the most secret events?
909 I, XII | included in one of the great divisions of European Russia. It is
910 II, I | Then you are something of a doctor?”~“All Frenchmen are something
911 I, IV | Kissoff had not given him any document notifying that he was on
912 II, XV | account to their readers.~“And doesn’t it make you wish to imitate
913 I, V | nearly a hundred million dollars.~On one of the open spaces
914 II, VIII| surrounding country. There, on a doorstep, Nadia found two of those
915 I, X | the back. The traces were doubled, and, as an additional precaution,
916 II, II | instinctive kindness had doubly inspired her. In devoting
917 II, VI | Strogoff shook his head with a doubtful air.~“You do not think so,
918 II, XIII| could have any reason for doubting him. He came, therefore,
919 I, IV | Then seating herself with downcast eyes, not even glancing
920 I, IV | carpets do not arrive, the drafts will not arrive either,
921 II, V | barbarians give it before the drama.”~Michael had been commanded
922 I, I | scene of so many terrible dramas, the echoes of whose walls
923 II, XI | situation was extremely dramatic, and that, well worked up,
924 II, VI | his companion gave him, drank from the gourd she held
925 II, I | tent overlooked the others. Draped in large folds of a brilliant
926 I, I | with stars. The embroidered drapery of the curtains and doors,
927 II, XII | latter river. Two wooden draw-bridges, built on piles, connected
928 II, IX | The young girl suffered dreadfully. Her aching feet could scarcely
929 I, XIII| whatever they might be, did not dream of shrinking from this one.
930 II, XIII| the Asiatic world, not one dreamed of even speaking of a capitulation.
931 I, I | thoughtful brow, was listening dreamily to the sounds floating from
932 II, VII | going to have one of my dreams realized— that of sailing
933 I, XV | these dipterals. It is a dreary region, which man dearly
934 II, XIV | into the room, her clothes drenched, her hair in disorder.~“
935 I, VII | I,” answered the second drily.~“Really, I didn’t expect
936 I, VII | hobnobbing at the same table, drinking genuine Cliquot, at six
937 II, IX | me, I will go on till I drop.”~There were no obstacles
938 II, XIV | awaited a second attack.~Cold drops stood on Ogareff’s brow.
939 II, X | that a Russian is never drowned in it.~This immense basin
940 I, VI | instinctively rose and, like a drowning man who clutches at a spar,
941 II, V | sequins, rained also Russian ducats and roubles.~Then silence
942 I, I | of the dances. The grand duchesses, covered with diamonds,
943 I, VII | covered with flocks of wild duck, who flew away uttering
944 II, VII | bell of the cathedral was dumb; the chimes of the churches
945 II, XII | sustain a siege of some duration.~The preparations were begun
946 II, III | over a road made still more dusty by the passage of the Emir
947 I, XVI | and pools, separated by dwarfed bushes, whins, and heather.
948 II, III | provinces.~It is useless to dwell upon the sufferings of the
949 II, XII | a lofty cathedral, and dwellings disposed in picturesque
950 II, III | from her. It was he. The dying rays of the sun fell upon
951 II, VII | and go to bed uncommonly early!”~A presentiment of impending
952 I, XI | asked Michael with some earnestness.~“Exactly so, Mr. Korpanoff;
953 I, XIV | lower town. The surrounding earthwork had been destroyed in many
954 II, VII | Yenisei.~This passage was much easier; no whirlpools broke the
955 I, XI | asked Blount.~“That is the easiest thing in the world,” replied
956 I, XVII| left it in westerly and easterly directions, and a third
957 I, XII | Blount, who was a methodical eater—they started, and were driven
958 I, IX | though they performed many an eccentric curvette as they went along.
959 I, VIII| vie with the English in eccentricity, has not hesitated to choose
960 I, II | posts which are ranged in echelon from Omsk to Semipolatinsk,
961 I, I | many terrible dramas, the echoes of whose walls were this
962 II, I | gayly braided, and silk caps edged with fur and three ribbons
963 II, VIII| fifty-fifth parallel, that of Edinburgh and Copenhagen. However,
964 I, XIV | Tartar chieftains, was an educated soldier. Possessing on his
965 I, IX | guttural tone, were more effectual than either bridle or snaffle.~
966 I, XIV | a manner by which he had effectually concealed himself, he had
967 II, I | This liquid is the most efficacious sedative known for the treatment
968 I, VIII| little conformable with the effrontery natural to his race. One
969 I, IV | I sell neither hops, nor eider-down, nor honey, nor wax, nor
970 I, IV | the most rapidly taking eighteen days to get from Moscow
971 II, II | ravaged Southern Russia in the eighteenth century. To seize the Grand
972 II, I | not situated beyond the eighty-fifth meridian, which passes through
973 I, XVII| renown; a train-band captain eke was he of famous London
974 II, IV | the celebrated mines of Elbourz, necklaces of cornelians,
975 I, VI | Owing to the strength of his elbows Michael was able to cross
976 II, XIV | Angara. In an instant, with electrical rapidity, as if the current
977 I, IX | and becoming charged with electricity. It was to be hoped that
978 I, I | disquietude, the source of which eluded their penetration; but none
979 I, IV | unhesitatingly, orders which emanate from a monarch who has the
980 I, XII | gesture.~The postmaster, much embarrassed, did not know whom to obey,
981 I, IX | other, prevented them from embarrassing themselves with packages.
982 I, XIV | able to reduce. Upon its embattled walls floated the national
983 II, II | crowd of unhappy people, embittered by sufferings, this silent
984 I, VIII| Wassili Fedor had but time to embrace his sick wife and his daughter,
985 II, III | off without having even embraced the two beings in whom all
986 II, II | exclaimed the old woman, embracing Nadia.~“Your son!” said
987 I, VII | and the breast a mass of embroidery. All these merchants had
988 II, IV | necklaces of cornelians, agates, emeralds, opals, and sapphires— that
989 I, I | the conversation with this eminently French phrase.~“I have telegraphed
990 II, II | giving to his phrases the emphatic turn which distinguishes
991 II, I | ambition has lost the greatest empires,” answered Blount, who was
992 I, IV | rank is conferred on its employees, and they act in military
993 I, I | replied Harry Blount calmly, employing the word specially devoted
994 II, XII | abundance. Irkutsk is the emporium of the innumerable kinds
995 I, XIII| southeast to the northwest and empties itself into the Obi, after
996 II, VII | forests, whose tops were then empurpled with light. The Yenisei
997 I, VIII| shall thank Heaven if it enables me to give Nadia Fedor safe
998 II, III | waited.~The prisoners were to encamp for the whole night on the
999 II, I | terrible Emir of Bokhara, was encamped; and there on the following
1000 I, II | also the largest, and its encampments occupy all the space between
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