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1001 II, X | As to the mountains which encase it, they form a branch of
1002 I, XI | burst into a laugh.~Alcide, enchanted with his own joke, drew
1003 I, I | costumes amid which he moved, encircled by his escort of Georgians,
1004 I, XIV | seen. When the moment of encountering him face to face should
1005 II, XIII| the enemy.”~“Where did the encounters take place?”~“At Kolyvan,
1006 II, IX | knowing who she was, and what encouragement she had received in return.
1007 I, XVI | its master spoke a few encouraging words. In such darkness
1008 I, IX | over the Ural Mountains, encroaches on Siberian territory. Marble
1009 I, X | rushed to his assistance. Endowed with more than common strength,
1010 I, XV | journey. The temperature was endurable. The nights at this time
1011 I, X | returned the iemschik, all his energies apparently overcome by terror. “
1012 II, II | journey for these people, enfeebled by privations. More than
1013 II, VIII| in which he employed his enforced holiday.~“Decidedly,” said
1014 II, XIII| obtain an opportunity of engaging in battle with the Tartars—
1015 I, VII | he happened to pass the engine-room. He then found himself in
1016 II, XII | Ogareff, who was a clever engineer, was perfectly competent
1017 II, I | thin gold-leaf delicately engraved. Above floated the Tartar
1018 I, XIII| features of it were so deeply engraven on his memory that he had
1019 II, XIII| You know that this letter enjoins us all to die, rather than
1020 II, V | they would rush off to enjoy the pleasures of intoxication.~
1021 I, XVI | discover a single Siberian to enlighten him?~Michael rode on for
1022 II, IV | a city of millionaires, enriched by the spade and pickax,
1023 II, I | had lost the pupil,—all enrolled under the Emir’s flag, the
1024 I, II | way. Pillaging, ravaging, enrolling those who submitted, taking
1025 I, IV | possible.~Michael Strogoff ensconced himself in his corner, like
1026 II, III | impossible.~Silence then ensued, and, on a sign from Ivan
1027 II, VIII| was best to do. During the ensuing day, the recent passage
1028 I, XV | that the road winds, and entails upon the traveler the greatest
1029 I, VII | Caucasus could not thus, after entering the Kama, make against the
1030 I, II | warriors, all ready to join an enterprise so dear to Tartar instincts—
1031 II, XII | vanishes as the traveler enters.~The town, half Byzantine,
1032 I, VIII| dispatch to your cousin?”~“With enthusiasm.”~“You had learnt then—?”~“
1033 II, IX | road, principally at the entrances to villages. Nadia, overcoming
1034 II, V | life into one last look. To entreat pity from these savage men
1035 I, XIV | officers, and soldiers had entrenched themselves. They had made
1036 I, IV | Astrakhan, and of Siberia, and environed by the collar of the order
1037 I, I | diplomatique, glittered an epergne of inestimable price, brought
1038 II, XII | subjected to the horrors of epidemic and famine, and I have reason
1039 I, V | not help smiling at the epithet bestowed on him, dreading
1040 II, X | his energy, which was only equaled by the young girl’s devotion.
1041 I, III | ferocious animal, in size equaling its fellow of the frozen
1042 I, XI | their place on the singular equipage, and the two carriages started
1043 II, III | twenty blows of this whip is equivalent to a sentence of death.~
1044 I, I | the said Englishman became erect, and turned in all directions
1045 I, VII | funnel, whilst the end of the escape-pipe and the lids of the valves
1046 I, V | who had occupied a year in escorting their merchandise across
1047 I, IV | globe, surrounded by the escutcheons of Novgorod, Wladimir, Kiev,
1048 II, II | paid liberally for this espionage, from which he derived so
1049 I, XVII| singing in a mocking tone:~“II est un petit homme, Tout habille
1050 I, XII | are held by all in high esteem.~However, Michael’s dangers
1051 II, I | certainly not the least esteemed of Feofar-Khan’s army.~If
1052 I, IV | and Finland, Prince of Esthonia, Livonia, Courland, and
1053 I, IV | these, Finns, Laplanders, Esthonians, several other northern
1054 I, X | than five thousand feet. Eternal snow is there unknown, and
1055 I, V | extraordinary mixture of Europeans and Asiatics, talking, wrangling,
1056 I, VI | was evident, be entirely evacuated before the evening, and
1057 II, XIV | the top of a furnace, the evaporated water escaping in shrill
1058 II, IX | of bread, which, dried by evaporation, preserve their nutritive
1059 I, VI | contained admitted of no evasion either. It only concerned
1060 I, IV | to which he received only evasive answers. Every minute leaning
1061 I, IV | guard against any serious eventualities even in the interior of
1062 II, I | Russians could not fail eventually to defeat the savage hordes
1063 I, V | composed it, required an ever-watchful surveillance.~This plain
1064 I, XVI | afforded but too clear evidence that their hordes had passed
1065 I, XV | contained the remedy for so many evils, the safety of all this
1066 II, I | called “kroute,” made of sour ewe’s milk, and which, soaked
1067 II, XIII| hundred thousand men.”~Another exaggeration of Ogareff’s in the estimate
1068 I, IV | subjected them all to a minute examination, as by order of the superintendent
1069 I, I | exquisite costumes, set the example to the wives of the military
1070 I, XIII| of the Ichim, which much exasperated Michael, especially as the
1071 I, X | lanterns, discovered an excavation bearing the marks of a miner’
1072 I, XV | Michael Strogoff, although exceedingly anxious for news, could
1073 I, XIV | when occasion demanded, excelling in the adoption of all disguises
1074 II, II | at least, unless some exceptional opportunity for escape occurs.
1075 II, X | water. The night had been excessively cold; pieces of ice could
1076 I, XV | he did not even think of exchanging him for another animal.
1077 I, XVI | to assist the deh-baschi, exciting each other by their shouts,
1078 I, XV | with the Grand Duke, and to exclaim: “Your highness, from his
1079 II, X | He was about to make an exclamation of surprise when he saw
1080 I, XIV | distinct towns: one which is exclusively inhabited by the authorities
1081 II, VIII| was a trip, an agreeable excursion in which he employed his
1082 I, II | rebels?” exclaimed the Czar.~“Excuse me, your majesty,” stammered
1083 II, I | answered Blount, who was not exempt from a certain English jealousy
1084 I, XIII| and a Russian specially exempted from obeying these words
1085 I, I | information.~By what means, by the exercise of what acuteness had these
1086 II, XII | and the influence which he exercises over the people.~The garrison
1087 I, XIII| However, after half an hour’s exertion, the boatmen got the tarantass
1088 I, XV | the sun draws poisonous exhalations, that the road winds, and
1089 II, VII | cautiously, so as not to exhaust him by struggling against
1090 I, XV | her life, for that natural exhibition of her feelings which she
1091 I, VI | what might be called the exodus from the immense plain began.
1092 I, X | precautions were taken, in expectation of a rough night. The road
1093 I, IX | Irkutsk, where my father expects me. I am taking him my mother’
1094 I, XII | urged on the iemschiks, and expedited the harnessing of the tarantass.
1095 I, II | is to be hoped he will be expeditious,” added the chief of police; “
1096 I, VIII| Asiatics who were being expelled; the other, mujiks stopping
1097 I, VI | between this proclamation expelling all foreigners of Asiatic
1098 I, VI | it not only perilous but expensive?~“Well,” said he, “if she
1099 I, VII | then success to the most expert! Alcide Jolivet had made
1100 I, I | twenty different ways of explaining his thoughts, whereas his
1101 I, X | dispersed without a tremendous explosion, which in the peculiar state
1102 I, IV | idea of reckoning on the exports of a country in which the
1103 I, VI | prescribed time, which would expose them to some brutal treatment
1104 I, X | brave everything, but, in exposing both of us, I risk more
1105 I, I | word specially devoted to expressing admiration by all subjects
1106 I, IV | eyes were brown, soft, and expressive of much sweetness of temper.
1107 II, XIII| time. Her letter told me so expressly.”~“She was in Moscow on
1108 I, I | ladies-in-waiting in their most exquisite costumes, set the example
1109 II, VII | view they thus obtained was extensive. At this place the Yenisei
1110 I, III | fatigue, to the very last extremities.”~“He must have a frame
1111 II, XV | the glowing saber and his eyeballs, had been sufficient to
1112 II, XIII| the gaze of Ogareff, who eyed him as a victim reserved
1113 II, VI | darker than formerly. The eyelashes and eyebrows were partly
1114 I, I | farther down, in front of the facade, dark masses obscured the
1115 I, IX | belt, coat with crossed facings and buttons stamped with
1116 I, XII | seen a fine metal-refining factory and a bell foundry, had
1117 I, IV | venture out of the region of facts, they never went so far
1118 II, I | It is forbidden by the faculty. Nothing can be worse for
1119 II, VI | his legs showed no sign of failing him; but he felt sure that
1120 I, XII | delay; it was perhaps the failure of his mission. It would
1121 I, XI | broken-winded snail and faint-hearted tortoise if I don’t take
1122 II, XI | dimmer, the crackling became fainter, and the flames at last
1123 I, I | of a river, whose waters, faintly illumined by a few lamps,
1124 I, XIV | he was seized with such faintness that, without the assistance
1125 I, XIV | during the night, on the fair-ground had uttered that singular
1126 I, V | the landlord offered him a fairly comfortable room, with little
1127 I, V | Bohemian, such as are met at fairs, and with whom contact,
1128 II, IV | Central Asia give the name of “fal” to this practice. After
1129 II, I | of his palace; the grand falconer; the “housch-begui,” bearer
1130 I, XVII| reply to all the reasons for faltering. “God will protect our sacred
1131 I, XVII| went Gilpin—who but he? His fame soon spread around: He carries
1132 I, VII | the French correspondent familiarly saluted the Englishman,
1133 II, I | which waved in the wind like fans, it occupied the center
1134 II, V | signal, all the lights of the fantasia were extinguished, the dances
1135 I, XIV | his eyes lay a single goal—far-distant Irkutsk. He must reach it!
1136 I, IV | alone, journeying to that far-off Siberia, and at a time when,
1137 II, XIV | exercised a sort of dreadful fascination over him.~All at once, Ogareff
1138 II, XII | to whom the latest Paris fashions are not unknown.~Being the
1139 II, VIII| cake prepared with sheep’s fat and a large supply of plain
1140 II, VIII| himself. Notwithstanding his fatalism, and though resigned, he
1141 II, X | put him to this trial. The fatality which had hitherto pursued
1142 I, XIV | nothing when he desired to fathom some secret or to set some
1143 II, XIV | bore them was not thirty fathoms from the first quay of Irkutsk.~
1144 II, X | collected during his long and fatiguing pilgrimage, nothing was
1145 I, XVII| Madeleine Jolivet, 10, Faubourg Montmartre, Paris.~“From
1146 II, IV | musketry.~Feofar mounted his favorite horse, which carried on
1147 II, XII | never asked either thanks or favors, and when the exiles of
1148 I, IV | dense fogs, excessive cold, fearfully heavy snow-storms, which
1149 II, VIII| of the steppe might not feast on the miserable remains,
1150 I, III | built for the performance of feats of strength. It would have
1151 II, XIV | should be unguarded or only feebly held when he gave it up.
1152 I, XVI | The horses, which were feeding at liberty at the edge of
1153 II, XIV | and at the same time a feigned attempt at crossing the
1154 II, XIV | their attempt was only a feint.~About ten in the evening,
1155 II, I | suffering and despairing fellow-captives.~Was this state of things
1156 I, IV | attentively at his newly-arrived fellow-traveler. As she was so placed as
1157 I, I | crossed rivers, sprang over fences, with the ardor of pure-blooded
1158 I, II | of Western Siberia in a ferment? Had the rebellion already
1159 II, II | accomplishment of Michael’s most fervent desire. His intention, as
1160 II, IV | as to lose no detail of a festival which ought to supply them
1161 II, XI | During certain religious festivals, principally at the port
1162 I, I | way cast a shade over the festivities; and, as he was a personage
1163 I, XIII| carriage he would return and fetch Nadia.~The girl refused.
1164 I, XI | precious fur of the bear, which fetches a high price.~“You are not
1165 I, XV | imbuing him with all his own feverish impatience, requiring of
1166 II, VIII| best in the whole journey; fewer jolts for travelers, large
1167 II, XIII| which never failed, numerous fictitious events of his journey. Then,
1168 I, XIV | Strogoff and his guide, vowing fidelity, saluted them.~Michael Strogoff
1169 II, XII | not prevent it, having no field-artillery at his disposal, and he
1170 II, XIV | CHAPTER XIV THE NIGHT OF THE FIFTH OF OCTOBER~IVAN OGAREFF’
1171 II, VIII| is not situated above the fifty-fifth parallel, that of Edinburgh
1172 II, IV | was specially guarded by a file of soldiers. His mother
1173 II, V | embroidered with golden filigree, they drew long narrow bands
1174 I, XI | my sister and I already fill it.”~“Really, sir,” answered
1175 I, XV | all the rain-water which finds no outlet either towards
1176 I, I | walls.~The grand saloon, the finest of all those contained in
1177 I, IV | Courlanders. Add to these, Finns, Laplanders, Esthonians,
1178 II, XI | osier ropes would break, the fir trunks torn asunder would
1179 II, XI | rapidity. The houses, built of fir-wood, blazed like torches—a hundred
1180 II, XI | Bakou, the natives, who are fire-worshipers, throw liquid naphtha on
1181 II, V | seemed to be in the midst of fireworks. In some respects, this
1182 I, III | moved, his step showed a firmness, a freedom of movement,
1183 II, IV | chaplets of turquoises, “firouzehs” from the celebrated mines
1184 I, V | weavers’ quarter, the dried fish quarter, etc. Some booths
1185 I, XII | Only three horses were fit to be harnessed. The others
1186 I, III | Kissoff.~“Have you found a fitting man?”~“I will answer for
1187 I, VIII| peculiar gaze, as if to fix his features indelibly in
1188 II, VI | limbs tottered, her steps flagged, her arms fell to her sides,
1189 II, I | tops waved amidst banners, flags, and pennons of every color.
1190 II, XIV | palace. Long tongues of flame from the Angara licked its
1191 II, XI | torches—a hundred and fifty flaming at once. With the crackling
1192 I, II | eight English miles, and flanked with towers, a glorious
1193 I, I | provided with large auditory flaps; but, since scientific men
1194 I, X | feet from the tarantass, flared up like a gigantic torch.~
1195 II, III | his eyes that their angry flashings might not appear.~Marfa,
1196 I, IX | have seen the brandy in my flask change into hard stone,
1197 II, IX | nor a hillock broke the flatness. Not a breath disturbed
1198 I, IV | his voice; “but who can flatter themselves that they know
1199 I, IV | ribbons, nor, hemp, nor flax, nor morocco, nor furs.”~“
1200 I, V | only begged leave to be flayed, “morally and physically.”~
1201 II, VII | carriage!” And with a light fleck of the whip, Nicholas put
1202 I, II | heat of summer, and which flies with the rapidity of lightning—
1203 I, XVI | with a curved sword, and a flintlock musket slung at the saddle-bow.
1204 I, X | then crushing to powder the flints on the road, it bounded
1205 II, XIV | down in the sky. Lights flitting to and fro in the Angara
1206 I, V | of the vast concourse a flock of birds was allowed to
1207 I, IV | Armenians, or Kalmucks, who flocked to the great market, he
1208 II, VIII| this column had launched a flotilla of boats, which would enable
1209 I, XV | everywhere with a thousand flowers remarkable for the brightness
1210 I, VII | a few women, habited in flowery-patterned cotton dresses, gay-colored
1211 I, X | struck by the electric fluid, scarcely twenty feet from
1212 I, XII | immediately the door was flung open and a man appeared.~
1213 I, III | pale face became at all flushed, it arose solely from a
1214 II, V | tschibyzga,” a long reed flute; wind instruments, tom-toms,
1215 II, I | with fur and three ribbons fluttering behind. Brown-skinned Afghans,
1216 I, III | flight of birds through the foggy atmosphere, a thousand circumstances
1217 I, IV | long-continuing and dense fogs, excessive cold, fearfully
1218 I, XII | said Michael quietly, folding his arms across his chest.~“
1219 II, XI | The old boatman, getting a foothold on a near piece of ice,
1220 II, VII | pedestrian enlivened the footpaths raised at the bases of the
1221 II, XIV | a word. The noise of his footsteps, his very breathing, he
1222 II, XIII| of the proclamation which forbade anyone to leave it, would
1223 I, IV | the Muscovite government forbidding natives of any other countries
1224 II, IX | little river Oka, but it was fordable, and they had no difficulty
1225 I, IX | remains stuck in some bog, the fore-part arrives at the post-house
1226 II, IX | cried the girl, with a foreboding of evil. Michael, who was
1227 II, VIII| However, in spite of these forebodings the day passed without any
1228 I, V | original dances; comedians of foreign theaters, acting Shakespeare,
1229 I, IV | traitor, calling in the foreigner to avenge his personal rancor,
1230 I, I | say. Had they the gifts of foreknowledge and foresight? Did they
1231 II, X | take their places in the forepart of the raft. Harry Blount
1232 II, XI | One that they could not foresee, and, above all, one that
1233 I, I | gifts of foreknowledge and foresight? Did they possess a supplementary
1234 I, XVII| dispatches to Europe, and forestall each other in their report
1235 II, XI | the state of the sky had foretold, was enveloped in complete
1236 II, V | Damascene blades which are forged by the celebrated armorers
1237 II, II | energy, which knew neither forgiveness nor pity. She was a savage
1238 I, XV | the province, lying in the fork formed by the two Tartar
1239 I, I | gentleman. The Anglo-Norman, formal, cold, grave, parsimonious
1240 II, X | boatman was concerning the formation of ice on the surface of
1241 I, V | rock. and defended by a fort called in Russia “kreml.”~
1242 I, XI | destined to figure in a forthcoming French and Russian dictionary: “
1243 I, II | dispatches to Pekin in a fortnight.~It was this wire, extending
1244 I, V | from the mountains, telling fortunes to the credulous fools who
1245 I, IX | across the mountains?”~“Forty-eight hours, for we shall travel
1246 II, XII | earth-works had been raised. A fosse, flooded by the waters of
1247 I, IV | alone, at an age when the fostering care of a father, or the
1248 II, XI | detours; now, to avoid running foul of a block, there to enter
1249 I, II | Clemency, which was the foundation of his justice, when he
1250 I, XII | metal-refining factory and a bell foundry, had never before presented
1251 I, V | showmen accompanied their four-footed dancers, menageries resounded
1252 I, IX | telga is nothing but an open four-wheeled cart, made entirely of wood,
1253 I, V | Virgin, and a few saints framed in yellow gauze.~A goose
1254 I, III | blue, looked with clear, frank, firm gaze. The slightly-contracted
1255 II, II | usual crowd of beggars, freebooters, pedlars, and gypsies, which
1256 II, V | blind man knew not who had freed him, for Nadia had not spoken
1257 II, XII | difficult for the Angara to freeze all over. The defenders
1258 II, I | something of a doctor?”~“All Frenchmen are something of doctors.”~
1259 I, X | are there met with pretty frequently, and the road through the
1260 II, V | parti-colored lantern, and under a fresher breeze their harps vibrated
1261 I, X | manage to quiet them. His friendly expressions had been succeeded
1262 I, X | over the precipice. The frightened horses reared, and their
1263 II, IV | safety was in question, was frightfully pale. She expected some
1264 I, I | possessed the imperturbable sang froid and the genuine intrepidity
1265 II, VI | shall feel the first winter frosts. Perhaps the Tartars will
1266 I, II | received his pardon.”~The Czar frowned. Perhaps the chief of police
1267 II, II | replies.~Ivan Ogareff, without frowning, mounted his horse, and
1268 II, XIV | immobility of the blind man froze him. He had settled on the
1269 II, IV | for it is in the center of fruitful mines. In the luxury of
1270 II, VII | Nicholas and the girl had each fruitlessly rummaged these cottages
1271 I, V | English cottons, harness, fruits, vegetables, minerals from
1272 I, III | at various times he has fulfilled difficult missions with
1273 I, III | glance—was, that he was “a fulfiller of orders.” He therefore
1274 I, X | more than yours, I am not fulfilling my task, that duty which
1275 I, XVII| his rival.~Alcide Jolivet fumed.~In the meanwhile Harry
1276 II, VIII| assisted up, and the cruel fun continued. At sight of this
1277 I, V | imperial orders that great functionary resided during the whole
1278 I, X | being able to perform their functions. The silence would have
1279 II, VIII| to advance. Serko barked furiously.~“What is the matter?” asked
1280 I, III | days he would obtain his furlough, and he had accordingly
1281 I, III | him in his profession.~The furloughs which were his due after
1282 II, XIV | like wax on the top of a furnace, the evaporated water escaping
1283 II, XI | resembled so many glowing furnaces. They rose among the volumes
1284 II, XI | well worked up, it would furnish a most deeply interesting
1285 II, I | Khokhand and Koundouge had furnished a contingent nearly equal
1286 I, IV | He contented himself with furnishing him with a “podorojna.”~
1287 I, V | was the iron quarter, the furriers’ quarter, the woolen quarter,
1288 II, X | prahms, and steamboats, which furrow it during the summer.~It
1289 I, II | two Siberias.~No rail yet furrows these wide plains, some
1290 II, VI | banks of the Tom to the furthest extremity of the town, they
1291 II, XV | his allies. This invasion, futile as all which attack the
1292 I, XII | having given her such a gallant protector, a friend so generous
1293 II, XI | brutes. Their companions gallantly seconded them. The battle
1294 I, XIV | the same. It was under the garb of a Zingari, mingling with
1295 I, XIV | slipping his hand under his garment he felt the imperial letter
1296 II, I | Russia, being insufficiently garrisoned, would fall into the hands
1297 II, XII | invading army, except the garrisons left in the principal conquered
1298 I, IV | the Moujik, wide trousers, gartered at the knees, and high boots—
1299 I, I | directions while endeavoring to gather in the sounds, in a manner
1300 I, I | at regular intervals. The Gaul, on the contrary, lively
1301 I, V | weapons from the Caucasus, gauzes from Smyrna and Ispahan.
1302 I, X | those villages termed “gavody” are there met with pretty
1303 I, I | this night awakened by the gay strains of the musicians.~
1304 I, I | itself was wont to obey, the gayety of the ball was not for
1305 II, I | with silver buckles, coats gayly braided, and silk caps edged
1306 II, IV | back of a cap studded with gems of the highest value. Under
1307 II, II | of Colonel Ivan Ogareff, general-in-chief of the Tartar troops?” asked
1308 I, XII | if it was only for their generosity in the matter of “na vodkou.”~
1309 II, I | that he could traverse Genisci without danger, and gain
1310 I, XVI | down. He patted and spoke gently to him, and managed to raise
1311 I, XV | large enough to warrant its geographical nomenclature—Tchang, Chinese
1312 I, XII | PROVOCATION~EKATERENBURG, geographically, is an Asiatic city; for
1313 II, XV | gave him the Cross of St. George. In the course of time,
1314 I, IV | names, the Permiaks, the Germans, the Greeks, the Tartars,
1315 I, I | appeared only to speak or gesticulate under the influence of a
1316 I, II | cool audacity of a modern Ghengis-Khan. It was impossible to ascertain
1317 I, III | have been frozen to death. Gifted with marvelous acuteness,
1318 I, I | impossible to say. Had they the gifts of foreknowledge and foresight?
1319 I, I | The rich ceiling, with its gilding already softened by the
1320 I, V | he had fallen in with the gipsy camp. This was somewhat
1321 I, XVI | bit, Michael looked to his girths and stirrups, and began
1322 I, I | has been mentioned, the giver of the fete, and to whom
1323 II, XIII| evening he came upon the glacis of this gate. He walked
1324 II, IX | friends!” he murmured. “I am glad to have seen you again!
1325 I, XIV | simple uniform. Although he glanced rapidly from one side to
1326 I, XVI | light appeared, above which glared brighter lights waving about
1327 II, II | In three days.”~A strange gleam shot from Sangarre’s great
1328 II, V | illuminated, glittered and gleamed.~Michael listened. The square
1329 I, VIII| around~My graceful neck gleaming;~Like a bird of the air,~
1330 II, XI | it was quite mingled, but gleams of light sometimes fell
1331 I, IV | glass, over which the sleigh glides rapidly and easily.~Perhaps
1332 II, I | of skin, felt, or silk, glistened in the rays of the sun.
1333 II, II | cross-belt and scabbard glistening with precious stones, boots
1334 I, VIII| night. It must have been the glitter of those spangles in the
1335 I, VIII| might be thus rendered:~ “Glitters brightly the gold~In my
1336 I, XI | ear to ear, and the other gloomily contemplating his situation,
1337 I, X | lungs, that is to say those gloomy, dense clouds, not being
1338 I, II | and flanked with towers, a glorious city, made illustrious by
1339 II, X | prayer, the “Slava Bogu,” Glory to God! issued from their
1340 II, V | grumblings of the daires, and the gnashing of doutares.~Their arms,
1341 I, XV | dearly disputes with tipulae, gnats, mosquitos, horse-flies,
1342 II, IV | Perhaps she might at least gnaw through the meshes which
1343 II, VIII| which fastened Michael, gnawed through by him, broke by
1344 II, I | piece of the intestines of goats grilled on the coals, or
1345 II, V | him, “You came to see our goings out and comings in, Russian
1346 II, II | remained seated on their gold-embroidered cushions; but Feofar rose
1347 II, I | its pages being of thin gold-leaf delicately engraved. Above
1348 I, XVI | aid you and yours?”~“No.”~“Good-by.”~“Farewell.”~And Michael,
1349 I, XI | on board the Caucasus.~“Good-morning to you, sir,” cried the
1350 I, XIII| going up to Michael to say good-night.~“Brother,” she whispered.
1351 II, VIII| he said to Nadia: “Divine goodness! what joy will Mr. Korpanoff
1352 I, V | framed in yellow gauze.~A goose filled with sour stuffing
1353 I, X | had swept past into the gorge below.~“Will you go back?”
1354 II, X | granite cliffs, there wild gorges, down which rushed a torrent;
1355 I, IV | neighbors, without constraint, gossiped in his presence, allowing
1356 I, II | understand this mode of governing. But he was silent, waiting
1357 I, II | offenders are banished.~Two governor-generals represent the supreme authority
1358 I, IV | of his ukase: “We, by the grace of God, Emperor and Autocrat
1359 II, IV | they stood well in the good graces of their chief.~At least
1360 II, XIV | He sees!” said Nadia. “Gracious Heaven, is it possible!”~
1361 I, I | strains of the musicians.~The grand-chamberlain of the court, was, besides,
1362 II, II | grandmother, the other the grand-daughter—imposed a sort of respect.~
1363 I, I | and delicate duties. The grand-dukes and their aides-de-camp,
1364 I, II | They are the vilest, I grant, of the human race. They
1365 II, XII | brother of the Czar had granted a pardon to all Fedor’s
1366 II, IV | the town, the principal grantees of the imperial government’
1367 II, XIV | towards the houses in the grasp of the flames, which it
1368 II, XIV | one hand, the blind man grasped the arm of his enemy, seized
1369 II, XIII| Ogareff had just committed gratuitously an act of real cruelty.
1370 I, I | the younger guests or the graver remarks of the exalted dignitaries
1371 II, I | themselves compelled to dig graves for the bodies of those
1372 II, XI | singularly calm. Even in the gravest conjunctures, his energy
1373 I, XVI | unsaddled, and began to graze on the thick grass which
1374 II, X | grave and austere. His large great-coat, fastened in at the waist,
1375 I, IV | Permiaks, the Germans, the Greeks, the Tartars, the Caucasian
1376 I, IX | with their white-walled, green-roofed chapels, the traveler might
1377 II, IV | his entry into the square, greeted by a flourish of trumpets,
1378 II, I | the intestines of goats grilled on the coals, or a few bits
1379 I, X | been complete but for the grindings of the wheels of the tarantass
1380 I, XI | approached them, the one grinning from ear to ear, and the
1381 I, XIV | pocket.”~Michael Strogoff gripped the mujik’s hand. Then,
1382 I, XVII| petit homme, Tout habille de gris, Dans Paris!”~Imitating
1383 I, I | beautifully laid out, and groaning under a profusion of valuable
1384 I, XV | was only after he had well groomed and provided for him that
1385 II, VI | forehead, then rise and grope his way in flight.~A few
1386 I, XIII| even his resentment at the gross injury he had received.~
1387 I, IV | countries of Iveria, Kartalinia, Grou-zinia, Kabardinia, and Armenia,
1388 II, VIII| Michael Strogoff had some grounds for hoping that his journey
1389 II, X | Lake Baikal.~These priests, grouped in the forward part of the
1390 II, I | clearing, sheltered by a grove of magnificent birch and
1391 I, XI | When the sound of the last growl had ceased, the merry voice
1392 I, X | unhurt.~Just as the last growlings of the thunder were lost
1393 I, XVI | the Turk goes, no grass grows.”~Michael saw at once that
1394 I, IV | rude enough by nature, grumbled some words against “people
1395 II, V | of the tambourines, and grumblings of the daires, and the gnashing
1396 I, III | majesty’s orders in the guard-room.”~“Let him come in,” said
1397 II, IV | that the soldiers who were guarding him could scarcely hold
1398 II, VIII| course of the Yenisei. There, guessing what had been done at Krasnoiarsk
1399 II, IX | is it not your hand that guides me? Have you not repaid
1400 II, V | doutare,” a long-handled guitar, the “kobize,” a kind of
1401 I, X | the side of the road, deep gulfs, lit up by the flashes,
1402 I, XIV | prostrated me? It was not a gunshot wound?”~“No; a lance-thrust
1403 II, XII | professors, either at the Gymnasium, or at the Japanese School,
1404 II, II | was to Ogareff. With her gypsy-band she could penetrate anywhere.
1405 I, XVII| est un petit homme, Tout habille de gris, Dans Paris!”~Imitating
1406 I, XV | Kamsk lies, like an island, habitable and healthy, in the midst
1407 I, VII | felt caps; a few women, habited in flowery-patterned cotton
1408 I, IV | In fact, the effect of habits contracted in solitude was
1409 I, IX | be found in all Perm. He haggled long about the price, for
1410 II, XI | around them like a tempest of hail, and pattered on the ice.
1411 I, XVI | shore. In the midst of a hailstorm of balls he managed to reach
1412 I, IV | which reached the ankles. Half-boots of leather, thickly soled,
1413 I, VII | away to a background of half-cultivated hills, offering no remarkable
1414 I, II | did not approve of such half-measures. According to his idea,
1415 I, XIV | passage. There were a few half-stifled cries, to which thrusts
1416 II, VII | streets of the town. They felt half-stupefied. They themselves made the
1417 I, II | than once infringed by the half-subdued nomads, and there was every
1418 II, VIII| start of the horse, and the half-tipsy rider galloped on without
1419 I, XV | This town is situated about halfway between Moscow and Irkutsk,
1420 I, XVII| merry refrain of Beranger.~“Hallo!” said Harry Blount.~“Just
1421 I, XV | Oubinsk and Ikoulskoe without halting. He started therefore at
1422 I, XIV | could only be a temporary halting-place for this Tartar cavalry,
1423 I, X | the middle horse not being hampered by the others, could keep
1424 II, III | considered dangerous were handcuffed and fastened to a long chain.
1425 I, XI | Here my friend,” said he, handing them to the iemschik; “take
1426 II, I | affirmation Alcide, tearing his handkerchief, made lint of one piece,
1427 I, VII | gay-colored aprons, and bright handkerchiefs on their heads. These were
1428 I, XIII| with long poles, which they handled cleverly; but as they gained
1429 I, XI | office and have the fellow hanged.”~This was said in a very
1430 II, XIV | with the masses of clouds hanging low down in the sky. Lights
1431 I, V | Asiatics, talking, wrangling, haranguing, and bargaining. Everything
1432 II, X | boatman wished to put into harbor for an hour, in order to
1433 I, III | his son Michael to endure hardship. Peter Strogoff was a huntsman
1434 I, III | couriers of the Czar. The hardy, intelligent, zealous, well-conducted
1435 I, VIII| so, with a bound like a harlequin, he alighted on the deck
1436 I, XII | iemschiks, and expedited the harnessing of the tarantass. Then the
1437 I, XII | breeze like the strings of a harp. The road could be distinguished
1438 II, XII | extend its ravages. The harvests of corn and fodder were
1439 I, XVI | which forms the base of the “has-chisch,” strolled up and down the
1440 I, XV | recruited his strength by a hasty meal of bread and meat and
1441 I, XIII| have reached Tobolsk. Marfa hates the Tartars. She knows the
1442 I, XII | Castilians, without the haughtiness of the latter. Here and
1443 I, XVI | attention, and then to gallop at headlong speed, required all the
1444 I, XIV | lance-thrust in the head, now healing,” replied the mujik. “After
1445 II, VIII| neither stormy nor rainy. The health of Nadia and Michael was
1446 I, V | bought or sold seemed to be heaped up in this square. Furs,
1447 II, VII | be found within but a few heaps of leaves. For want of better
1448 I, I | on. . . .”~“And when one hears all that is said. . . .”~“
1449 II, VI | blind man, made red by the heated blade, fell half over his
1450 I, XVI | dwarfed bushes, whins, and heather. The ground on either side
1451 II, VI | surrounded him; his breast heaved; then, supporting his companion
1452 II, II | meet this luminary of the heavens?”~“It is to subdue to the
1453 I, XIII| said Michael, his chest heaving as he felt he could not
1454 I, I | information, they leaped hedges, crossed rivers, sprang
1455 II, X | waist, reached down to his heels. This taciturn old fellow
1456 I, IV | mountains, and of others; heir of Norway, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein,
1457 II, II | boots with golden spurs, helmet ornamented with an aigrette
1458 I, V | orchestra, the veritable helmsman of this imaginary vessel!
1459 I, XIII| always attentive to Nadia, helping her to bear the fatigue
1460 I, IV | wool, nor ribbons, nor, hemp, nor flax, nor morocco,
1461 I, IV | nor honey, nor wax, nor hemp-seed, nor salt meat, nor caviare,
1462 II, V | be embroidered with fiery hems. It was like a kaleidoscope
1463 II, X | the fixed determination of henceforward dating their letters from
1464 I, V | spices, perfumes, medicinal herbs, wood, tar, rope, horn,
1465 I, IV | Kabardinia, and Armenia, Hereditary Lord and Suzerain of the
1466 II, XII | said he, smiling; “we need heroes to defend the capital of
1467 II, XV | grave of the humble and heroic friend, whom neither of
1468 I, III | eyebrows indicated lofty heroism—“the hero’s cool courage,”
1469 I, VI | inspiration prevented her from hesitating a moment.~“Sister,” repeated
1470 I, XII | surface, but in its bowels lay hid quantities of iron, copper,
1471 I, XVI | and on their feet yellow high-heeled boots with turned-up toes,
1472 I, XVI | was only one way open, the high-road. To endeavor to reach it
1473 I, XI | the corners, formed eddies highly dangerous, to pass which,
1474 II, IX | river. Not a tree nor a hillock broke the flatness. Not
1475 I, IV | of the country, which was hilly, without giving himself
1476 I, I | Involuntarily he sought the hilt of his sword, and then passed
1477 I, XII | carriage whose—”~“Whose hind wheels,” added Alcide, “
1478 I, VII | wearing the national turban; Hindoos, with square caps, and a
1479 I, XII | lose an instant. Buy or hire a carriage whose—”~“Whose
1480 II, V | celebrated armorers of Karschi or Hissar.~Behind him guards were
1481 II, XIV | her help.~“Ah! Be silent!” hissed out the traitor between
1482 II, XIV | water escaping in shrill hisses.~At the same moment, firing
1483 I, XVI | at Michael, but without hitting him, and several times too
1484 I, V | menageries resounded with the hoarse cries of animals under the
1485 I, VII | silent and grave, were seen hobnobbing at the same table, drinking
1486 II, V | on their arms, and by the hollow sounds of the “daires”—a
1487 II, VIII| seized a pistol from his holster and discharged it full at
1488 I, XVII| mocking tone:~“II est un petit homme, Tout habille de gris, Dans
1489 I, IV | extent, does not possess the homogeneousness of the states of Western
1490 I, IV | hops, nor eider-down, nor honey, nor wax, nor hemp-seed,
1491 II, XII | Sea of Okhotsk, had been honored by a visit from him. Arrived
1492 I, IX | whose farther end was a hoop carrying tassels and bells;
1493 I, IV | Abraham! I sell neither hops, nor eider-down, nor honey,
1494 I, I | amongst others some by Horace Vernet, hung on the wall.~
1495 I, I | down, their rifles carried horizontally on the shoulder, and the
1496 I, V | herbs, wood, tar, rope, horn, pumpkins, water-melons,
1497 II, VIII| body was that of a moujik, horribly mutilated, and already cold.
1498 II, IX | the same moment a cry of horror escaped Nadia. “There . . .
1499 I, XV | tipulae, gnats, mosquitos, horse-flies, and millions of microscopic
1500 I, XV | themselves with masks of horse-hair, to which is attached a
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