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1501 I, IX | would have been no less hospitable. In the villages, which
1502 II, I | he should be beyond the hostile zones, that he could traverse
1503 II, V | to take a place among the houris of Mohammed’s heaven.~But
1504 I, I | since yesterday.”~“Telegraph hourly to Tomsk, General, and keep
1505 I, II | which may be called his household, his wives and his slaves—
1506 II, XI | not make a sound, but the howls of the wolves filled the
1507 I, V | excitement, the confusion, the hubbub; demonstrative as were the
1508 II, XI | bluish light cast a peculiar hue, became almost fearful to
1509 I, I | assumed rich and varied hues, broken by the shadows of
1510 II, XIII| condemned by the Grand Duke to a humiliating degradation.”~“Yes, I remember.
1511 I, VIII| gypsy girls. One of them was humming a song of strange rhythm,
1512 II, IX | me? Have you not repaid a hundred-fold the help which I was able
1513 II, IV | Irkutsk, built beyond the hundredth meridian— have seen Tomsk
1514 I, IV | cause their destruction. Hungry wolves also roam over the
1515 I, I | were sportsmen, after all, hunting on the same ground. That
1516 II, XIV | seized his weapon, and hurled him again to the ground.~
1517 II, VII | kibitka drifted along anew.~“Hurrah!” exclaimed Nicholas.~Two
1518 I, X | broken trunks which were hurtling through the air.~Suddenly,
1519 II, XI | impregnated with liquid hydrogen. At the port of Bakou, on
1520 I, IV | Mstislaf, Governor of the Hyperborean Regions, Lord of the countries
1521 II, XIII| listened to the noise of the ice-blocks drifting down the Angara.~
1522 II, XI | cut channels through the ice-fields—had they been able to get
1523 II, VI | Thus they passed the river Ichirnsk, the villages of Ichisnokoe,
1524 II, VI | Ichirnsk, the villages of Ichisnokoe, Berikylokoe, Kuskoe, the
1525 II, VI | Bogostowskoe, and, lastly, the Ichoula, a little stream which divides
1526 I, III | imperceptible signs— the forms of icicles, the appearance of the small
1527 II, XV | the Angara by means of the icy barrier, they had escaped,
1528 I, VIII| province had published an order identical with that of Nijni-Novgorod.
1529 I, VII | answer made in the Tartar idiom: “It is said that a courier
1530 II, XI | were Jolivet and Blount idle, but fought bravely with
1531 I, III | Czar’s presence in complete ignorance of what the emperor expected
1532 II, VIII| recovered his usual spirits. The ill-omen had affected him more than
1533 II, I | in some enclosure, where, ill-treated, poorly fed, and exposed
1534 I, I | a conflagration, vividly illuminating the gloom in which for some
1535 II, V | the midst of the aerial illumination.~Then a squadron of Tartars,
1536 II, X | river, and, by an optical illusion, it appeared as if it was
1537 I, II | towers, a glorious city, made illustrious by Avicenna and other learned
1538 I, V | veritable helmsman of this imaginary vessel! A whimsical and
1539 I, XV | Strogoff urged on his horse, imbuing him with all his own feverish
1540 II, XIV | and, thinking he had an immeasurable advantage over the blind
1541 II, XIV | advantages were on his side. The immobility of the blind man froze him.
1542 I, I | seemed to have only one, immutably stereotyped on his brain.~
1543 I, VII | Caucasus. The long twilight imparted a coolness to the atmosphere
1544 II, XIV | he sprang forward on his impassible adversary. The two blades
1545 II, V | girls of India than the impassioned dancers of Egypt.~When this
1546 I, V | most indifferent and least impatient of men; yet, from a certain
1547 I, XII | Czar had in no way been impeded; and, if he could only get
1548 I, II | another, followed by those impedimenta of Oriental sovereignty
1549 I, IV | such exposed to all the impediments of an ordinary journey.~
1550 I, II | instigator. This traitor, impelled by insane ambition as much
1551 II, VII | early!”~A presentiment of impending misfortune passed across
1552 I, XV | formed a tangled network, an impenetrable undergrowth, sprinkled everywhere
1553 II, VII | difficulty, even on this imperfect apparatus, had the current
1554 I, XV | argillaceous, and therefore impermeable, so that the waters remain
1555 II, X | which pressed too near them, imperturbably steered the raft in the
1556 II, II | old woman.~And she added impetuously, “Was he not going to see
1557 I, X | murmured the young girl.~The impetus the tarantass had received
1558 I, XVII| message to send, that he only implored a little bread and water,
1559 II, VI | extending her hands, as if imploring pity.~“Burnt out his eyes!
1560 I, XV | and out of the way of the importunate and curious.~Exhausted with
1561 II, II | aspect rather strange than imposing for a Tartar Sardana-palus,
1562 I, II | tortoises and lizards, is almost impregnable, Is-chardjoui is defended
1563 II, II | these unfortunates? Would he imprison them in Tomsk, or would
1564 I, VII | good deal preferable to imprisonment in a fortress. Therefore
1565 I, VI | the order—though this was improbable enough, for such a thunder-clap
1566 I, IX | coach-builders will devise some improvement in this last-named vehicle.
1567 I, XIV | well in this species of improvised “kreml,” but without much
1568 I, X | ahead have for being so imprudent?~Michael remained thus on
1569 I, IV | had jumbled together so imprudently in his remarks tallow and
1570 II, II | dressed; but, from a sort of impudent bravado, he still wore the
1571 II, XV | hand in vapor, can with impunity hold it over a stream of
1572 II, XI | Michael did not wish to remain inactive. He lay down at the side
1573 I, XIV | who had fallen back almost inanimate upon a bench. But when the
1574 II, III | military fete should mark the inauguration of the Tartar headquarters
1575 I, XIII| invaders— pillage, theft, incendiarism, murder. Such was the system
1576 II, III | before her breast, at a few inches’ distance only. Directly
1577 II, V | surrounded it, due to the incineration of a certain aromatic and
1578 II, XI | which could make the least incision in the ice, hard as granite
1579 I, XIII| the boats overtake us.”~Incited by these words, the boatmen
1580 II, XIV | torrents, and, following the inclination of the ground, it spread
1581 I, V | bench?”~“Yes, if I feel inclined to do so,” answered Michael
1582 I, XII | Novo-Zaimskoe, this road has slight inclines, which gentle undulations
1583 I, IV | the care she took not to incommode or give trouble to anyone,
1584 I, IX | Neither jerks nor jolts incommoded him. He knew that a Russian
1585 II, XII | circumstances, he had given incontestable proofs. The news of the
1586 II, II | when they were found too inconvenient? This was the secret of
1587 II, III | instead of blood had it been incumbent on us to be always and everywhere
1588 I, III | scratch his head in doubt and indecision. Sparing of gestures as
1589 II, IX | more rapidly and with his indefatigable step.~On the 18th of September,
1590 I, VIII| as if to fix his features indelibly in her memory.~It was but
1591 I, II | interests, had supported the independence of the Kirghiz against the
1592 I, VI | brutally, together made an indescribable uproar. The girl for whom
1593 II, VIII| before Nijni-Oudinsk, the indications of recent devastation could
1594 II, VIII| and filled Nicholas with indignation. But what could they do?
1595 I, II | disdaining to reply to these indirect reproaches cast on his policy,
1596 I, VII | Those are inquisitive and indiscreet fellows whom I shall probably
1597 II, V | Persians appeared rather indolent than fiery. Their passion
1598 II, III | which he submitted her, the indomitable Siberian would not speak.
1599 I, IV | in Russia, but a permit indorsed with a private seal, and
1600 I, III | Marfa, who could never be induced to leave the house of the
1601 II, I | Telegraph was not a man to indulge himself.~“M. Jolivet,” he
1602 I, V | can she reach Irkutsk!”~Indulging in such reflections, Michael
1603 I, XII | number. This, the first industrial town established by the
1604 I, I | glittered an epergne of inestimable price, brought from London,
1605 I, XIV | in order not to see the inexpressible anguish which agitated the
1606 I, X | taken broadside it must infallibly capsize and be dashed over
1607 II, IV | the less carry forever the infamous brand of the knout.”~At
1608 I, XI | nursing of some poor little infant?”~“I never heard it,” replied
1609 I, XV | two-winged insects which infest this marshy country.~Travelers
1610 II, V | kaleidoscope of sparks, whose infinite combinations varied at each
1611 I, VI | conceal from himself how infinitely greater they would prove
1612 II, IV | Asia would, no doubt, be inflicted on Michael. Ogareff had
1613 I, IV | Siberian frontier, but evil influences might be feared in the Volga
1614 I, II | the bounds, more than once infringed by the half-subdued nomads,
1615 II, V | powder of some metallic ingredient, after the Chinese fashion,
1616 II, XIII| it suited him. He would inhabit the very palace. He would
1617 I, VII | Stretched on the benches, they inhaled with delight the slight
1618 II, VII | refuge at Irkutsk. The same injunction was given to all the villages
1619 I, IV | disembowel a bear, without injuring its precious fur.~A crowd
1620 I, VI | must be more useful than injurious.”~But these reflections
1621 I, XIII| resentment at the gross injury he had received.~Nadia,
1622 II, I | tent, on a japanned table inlaid with precious stones, was
1623 I, XII | at each relay, roused the innkeepers, urged on the iemschiks,
1624 I, V | which the landlords of the inns refused to receive travelers
1625 II, IX | time for the poor fellow, inoffensive and good, who had paid for
1626 I, II | This traitor, impelled by insane ambition as much as by hate,
1627 II, XV | not blind. Harry Blount inscribed this observation: “Red-hot
1628 II, XV | the city. They were the inseparable Blount and Jolivet. On gaining
1629 I, XI | Alcide, who understood the insinuation, “we will pay double.”~“
1630 II, XIII| was not too free in these insinuations. He wished to allow them
1631 I, V | his bag, had his podorojna inspected at the police office, he
1632 I, IV | would become of her?~The inspection ended, the doors of the
1633 I, I | retina must have been as instantaneous as that of those conjurors
1634 I, II | which Ivan Ogareff was the instigator. This traitor, impelled
1635 I, II | enterprise so dear to Tartar instincts—aided by the chiefs who
1636 II, XII | now under the necessity of instituting a regular siege of the town.~
1637 I, IV | great market, he had agents, instructed to provoke a rising in the
1638 II, III | soldier bearing this terrible instrument of torture approached Marfa.
1639 II, I | of Asiatic Russia, being insufficiently garrisoned, would fall into
1640 II, VIII| treated by the soldiers, was insulted by one of them.~Michael
1641 II, VIII| see the insult, nor the insulter, but Nicholas saw for him.
1642 I, IX | was pulled up, as it was insupport-ably hot, and at twelve o’clock
1643 I, IV | Siberia, whilst traversing the insurgent provinces, he would have
1644 I, IV | head. “But the safety and integrity of the Russian territory
1645 I, V | City of Constantinople, and intending to breakfast on the bank
1646 II, V | assumed an expression of intense scorn whenever he cast his
1647 II, V | their harps vibrated with intenser sound in the midst of the
1648 II, XIII| the least hesitation. He intentionally did not conceal that the
1649 I, IV | to attempt to divine the intentions of the Muscovite government,
1650 I, III | whose interest it will be to intercept this letter.”~“I will traverse
1651 II, XIII| arrival in Irkutsk, a frequent intercourse was established between
1652 II, IV | replied Blount coolly. “Any interference on our part in behalf of
1653 II, I | white sticks artistically interlaced, indicated the high rank
1654 I, I | his thoughts, whereas his interlocutor seemed to have only one,
1655 I, XVII| on Tomsk, neglecting the intermediate country.~Michael Strogoff’
1656 I, VII | Then passed rafts of wood interminably long, and barges loaded
1657 II, IV | drag her on, when Ogareff interposed, saying, “Let that woman
1658 II, XV | vapor formed by his tears interposing between the glowing saber
1659 II, IV | this practice. After having interpreted the sense of the verse touched
1660 I, XIV | am mad,” she said to her interrogators. “My eyes have deceived
1661 II, II | to this double blow. The interruption to her journey, the death
1662 II, I | were thrown a piece of the intestines of goats grilled on the
1663 I, XI | Let me introduce you to my intimate enemy, Mr. Blount.”~The
1664 I, XV | themselves felt by their intolerable stinging, to which the most
1665 II, VII | very sustaining, and even intoxicating; so that Nicholas and his
1666 II, V | to enjoy the pleasures of intoxication.~The Emir made a sign. Michael
1667 II, I | bloody execution. But he intrenched himself in that isolation
1668 II, II | grief, separated from the intrepid companion whom God seemed
1669 I, II | became involved in secret intrigues, and was degraded from his
1670 I, XIV | that a courier had been intrusted with the important warning.
1671 I, XV | have never been able to inure themselves.~Michael Strogoff’
1672 I, IX | is to be hoped that the invention of Russian coach-builders
1673 II, II | the greatest respect, and invited him to accompany them to
1674 I, X | Michael, for the first time invoking the all-powerful name of
1675 I, II | stopped at nothing, he became involved in secret intrigues, and
1676 II, VII | he felt to appear, but he inwardly raged against the bad luck
1677 I, XI | request roused Blount’s ire to its highest pitch, and
1678 II, VI | enlarged. The rich blue of the iris was darker than formerly.
1679 II, XII | at the confluence of the Irkut and the Angara, on the right
1680 II, VIII| this horse, and the reins ironically put into his hand. Then,
1681 I, V | stinging whip or red-hot irons of the tamer; and, besides
1682 II, XI | But the misfortune was irreparable, and the fugitives must
1683 II, XIV | villain, suddenly lifted by an irresistible force, was dashed to the
1684 II, VII | all Michael’s efforts, was irresistibly drawn into one of these.~
1685 I, XI | This redoubled Mr. Blount’s irritation. He even began to speak
1686 I, II | is almost impregnable, Is-chardjoui is defended by a population
1687 II, XV | cousin like you—”~“My cousin isn’t to be married!” answered
1688 II, I | intrenched himself in that isolation which constitutes in part
1689 I, V | gauzes from Smyrna and Ispahan. Tiflis armor, caravan teas.
1690 II, V | Turkey, Bohemia, Egypt, Italy, and Spain. They were enlivened
1691 I, IV | Lord of the countries of Iveria, Kartalinia, Grou-zinia,
1692 I, XV | at Pokrowskoe. His horse, jaded since his departure from
1693 II, I | bodies of those whom their jailers would not even take the
1694 II, XII | the Gymnasium, or at the Japanese School, or at the School
1695 II, I | Before this tent, on a japanned table inlaid with precious
1696 I, IV | Riazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Jaroslavl, Bielozersk, Oudoria, Obdoria,
1697 II, XII | like pot-bellied Chinese jars, presents something of an
1698 I, XII | of Siberia lay in Russian jaws.~Neither Michael nor his
1699 II, I | other. They were no longer jealous of each other. So, then,
1700 I, XI | understood how a sudden jerk would separate the front
1701 I, IX | mode of traveling. Neither jerks nor jolts incommoded him.
1702 I, I | their calling. Enthusiastic jockeys in this steeplechase, this
1703 I, I | when asked, he replied in a jocular manner that he corresponded
1704 I, XI | replied the Englishman, “this joking is going too far, it passes
1705 I, V | food were to his taste, he jotted down in his book some memoranda
1706 II, IX | short halt in the village of Joulounov-skoe. It was burnt and deserted.
1707 I, IV | this young girl, alone, journeying to that far-off Siberia,
1708 I, V | hundreds, uttering their joyous notes.~It should be mentioned
1709 I, V | mixed with cinnamon, and a jug of kwass, the ordinary Russian
1710 I, IV | neighbor— the merchant who had jumbled together so imprudently
1711 I, VI | circumstances, perfectly justifiable.~“All Russian subjects are
1712 II, X | acknowledged that his gravity was justified by the circumstances.~Jolivet
1713 I, X | At one end a huge rock jutted out, round the summit of
1714 I, XIV | sudden stop sprang behind a jutting wall.~“What is the matter?”
1715 I, IV | Kartalinia, Grou-zinia, Kabardinia, and Armenia, Hereditary
1716 II, V | fiery hems. It was like a kaleidoscope of sparks, whose infinite
1717 II, I | mingled some hundreds of “kalenders,” a sort of religious mendicants,
1718 I, IV | Caucasian tribes, the Mongol, Kalmuck, Samoid, Kamtschatkan, and
1719 I, XV | fact, between Oubinsk and Kamakore the very heavy rains of
1720 I, IV | Mongol, Kalmuck, Samoid, Kamtschatkan, and Aleutian hordes, and
1721 I, II | Arctic Ocean, from the Sea of Kara to Behring’s Straits. It
1722 II, I | Turcoman tents, called “karaoy,” which had been carried
1723 I, IV | Semigallia, of Bialystok, Karelia, Sougria, Perm, Viatka,
1724 I, XV | small towns of Ikoulskoe and Karguinsk, which he passed on the
1725 I, IV | the countries of Iveria, Kartalinia, Grou-zinia, Kabardinia,
1726 I, VIII| confluence of the Volga and Kasanka. It is an important chief
1727 II, X | Theodosia, at Kiev, that of Kazan, as well as the church of
1728 I, IV | From beneath a sort of kerchief which she wore on her head
1729 II, X | did not even possess the key of the box, which would
1730 II, I | belonged to the Seides and Khodjas, who are the principal personages
1731 II, VIII| Tartars from the khanats of Khokland and Koondooz, with which
1732 I, II | Irkutsk there is a branch to Kiatka, on the Mongolian frontier;
1733 I, II | journeys in summer in a kibick or telga; in winter, in
1734 I, VII | them with an accidental kick.~Michael Strogoff took care,
1735 II, IX | at ten in the evening, Kimilteiskoe was at last entered. From
1736 II, II | placed near her a courageous, kind-hearted being to comfort and assist
1737 II, VII | sweeping, flying away. The kindly rays of the sun have condensed
1738 II, XII | emporium of the innumerable kinds of merchandise which are
1739 I, I | all subjects of the United Kingdom.~“Nevertheless,” added Alcide
1740 II, I | part the majesty of Eastern kings. He who does not show himself
1741 II, XII | the banks of the Lena, at Kirensk, and now, neither frost
1742 II, XV | dark he covered her with kisses.~When Ogareff had in his
1743 I, I | seen three distinct towns: Kitai-Gorod, Beloi-Gorod, Zemlianai-Gorod—
1744 I, XIII| were in vain. “Saryn na kitchou!” shouted the soldiers from
1745 I, IV | doffed his uniform, with a knapsack on his back, dressed in
1746 I, XVI | they produced from their knapsacks.~Michael’s self-possession
1747 II, VII | share. Then, after having knelt before a small picture of
1748 I, XV | would almost say that a knight’s armor would not protect
1749 II, III | clouded than usual, and his knitted brow gave signs of latent
1750 I, IX | chapels, the traveler might knock at any door, and it would
1751 I, XII | convulsively as if he would have knocked the brute down. But by a
1752 II, X | added the Frenchman, “you knouted the face of that villain
1753 II, V | long-handled guitar, the “kobize,” a kind of violoncello,
1754 I, IV | Bielozersk, Oudoria, Obdoria, Kondinia, Vitepsk, and of Mstislaf,
1755 II, IX | two reached the village of Kouitounskoe. The young girl suffered
1756 I, XIII| afternoon it had reached Koulatsinskoe, fifty miles farther on.
1757 I, XV | halted at the station of Koulikovo. But there, as he had feared,
1758 II, VII | Khanats of Khokhand and Koun-douze, had now under his command
1759 II, I | bits of that cheese called “kroute,” made of sour ewe’s milk,
1760 II, VI | Ichisnokoe, Berikylokoe, Kuskoe, the river Marunsk, the
1761 II, VI | of that night, from the l6th to the 17th of August? How
1762 II, XII | the fortifications. They labored day and night. The Grand
1763 II, X | social position; in fact, laboring like a peasant on his plot
1764 II, VI | once more set out on the laborious road to Irkutsk. The girl
1765 I, I | sweeping robes adorned with lace, and uniforms covered with
1766 II, XII | helmets and blue uniforms laced with silver. Besides, as
1767 I, VIII| post-houses, the bad roads, and lack of villages. Michael Strogoff
1768 I, XV | having seen that his horse lacked nothing; but his sleep was
1769 II, II | newspapers,” replied Blount laconically.~“You have, doubtless, papers
1770 I, XIII| ferryboat, it being too heavily laden to escape from them.~The
1771 I, I | covered with diamonds, the ladies-in-waiting in their most exquisite
1772 II, III | order, and there were no laggards with the exception of those
1773 I, XIV | Three days hast thou lain unconscious.”~“Hast thou
1774 II, VII | lighted up by a flickering lamp, Nicholas and the young
1775 I, I | faintly illumined by a few lamps, washed the lower portion
1776 I, I | former was ruddy like a Lancashire gentleman. The Anglo-Norman,
1777 I, XIV | a gunshot wound?”~“No; a lance-thrust in the head, now healing,”
1778 II, III | whips, or pushed on with lances, arranged themselves round
1779 I, VIII| town was so far from the landing-place, a large crowd was collected
1780 I, V | Constantinople. There, the landlord offered him a fairly comfortable
1781 I, V | against a town in which the landlords of the inns refused to receive
1782 I, VII | reproduce in this monotonous landscape.~The Caucasus had been steaming
1783 II, V | bearing a parti-colored lantern, and under a fresher breeze
1784 I, IV | of room, she held on her lap.~She wore a long, dark pelisse,
1785 I, V | from the Ural, malachite, lapis-lazuli, spices, perfumes, medicinal
1786 I, IV | Courlanders. Add to these, Finns, Laplanders, Esthonians, several other
1787 II, IX | Michael! at sight of the lash raised upon Marfa, could
1788 I, IX | some improvement in this last-named vehicle. Springs are wanting
1789 II, VIII| shortening. Autumn here lasts but a very little while,
1790 II, VII | living being in this town, lately so lively!~The last telegram
1791 II, III | knitted brow gave signs of latent wrath which was waiting
1792 I, VII | of year, and under this latitude, the sky scarcely darkened
1793 I, III | mist, or even in higher latitudes, where the polar night is
1794 I, XI | interrupted by a burst of laughter from his companion, who
1795 II, VIII| troops, this column had launched a flotilla of boats, which
1796 II, VII | and was suitable for the launching of the kibitka. The horse
1797 II, V | doutares and tambourines.~“Lavish as robbers,” said Alcide
1798 I, IX | whip. But what epithets he lavished on them, including the names
1799 II, XII | obedient to the special laws which govern him.”~“General,”
1800 I, XV | platforms ballasted with thick layers of clay, whose joists shook
1801 I, XI | and while the Caucasus was laying in her supply of fuel, I
1802 I, IX | this sort of thing. The leader, rather larger than the
1803 I, VI | delay.”~But one thought leads to another. Michael Strogoff
1804 I, XVI | officer, smoking “beng,” the leaf which forms the base of
1805 I, IV | so stern that the sleeper leant on the opposite side, and
1806 I, XV | galloped on without halt, leaping the space between the rotten
1807 II, XIII| hope, that she stopped on learning the news of the Tartar invasion!”~
1808 I, XV | they drove them to the leeward of fires of green wood,
1809 I, III | and, according to Russian legends, most huntsmen who have
1810 I, XIV | Russia.~It was not without a legitimate pride that Michael Strogoff
1811 II, XV | being finished up like a lemon in a bowl of punch!”~Their
1812 I, XI | hundred yards behind. I will lend you one of my horses, harness
1813 II, XII | to resist the enemy for a lengthened period.~Irkutsk, founded
1814 I, XIII| ferryboat was still two lengths from the shore. The boatmen
1815 I, XIV | Feofar-Khan.~Michael Strogoff lent an attentive ear, but took
1816 II, I | clothed in rags, covered by a leopard skin, some idea may be formed
1817 I, X | strength of the wheels as to lessen the jolting, unavoidable
1818 I, XIV | of which his fur cap had lessened. With the energy which he
1819 I, II | hordes, the greater, the lesser, and the middle, and number
1820 I, II | regular soldiers. As M. Levchine says, “a firm front or a
1821 I, IV | the wide steppes being leveled by snow, while there are
1822 I, IX | pravo,” to the right, “na levo,” to the left, pronounced
1823 I, IX | expense, to say nothing of liberal tips. Therefore the crow
1824 II, II | service. Besides, he paid liberally for this espionage, from
1825 I, III | courier, entered the imperial library. He was a tall, vigorous,
1826 II, XIV | of flame from the Angara licked its walls, but were powerless
1827 I, VII | the escape-pipe and the lids of the valves were crowned
1828 I, III | something resembling that of a light-cavalry officer in the field— boots,
1829 II, V | themselves on the earth or lightly bounded upwards, as though
1830 I, III | Kamtschatka, the extreme limit of Asiatic Russia. During
1831 II, VIII| longer the wide steppe with limitless horizon; but the rich country
1832 I, V | although the long twilight yet lingered, the crowd was already dispersing,
1833 I, V | usual pocket within the lining of his coat, over which
1834 II, XIII| courier from the Czar was a link which connected them with
1835 II, I | tearing his handkerchief, made lint of one piece, bandages of
1836 I, IV | a very young girl in the literal sense of the term, the development
1837 II, IV | that her dress seemed to be literally made of precious stones.
1838 I, IV | Pskov, Prince of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volkynia, Podolia, and
1839 I, IV | besides Russians, Poles, Lithuanians, Courlanders. Add to these,
1840 II, III | choking with emotion. “He lives, mother! It is he!”~“It
1841 II, IV | Ogareff became perfectly livid.~“Who is this prisoner?”
1842 I, II | peopled with tortoises and lizards, is almost impregnable,
1843 I, XIII| that the weight of this load would render it less safe.
1844 I, XI | situation, and his intention of loaning one of the horses.~“As you
1845 I, XV | name of lakes. In other localities the stagnant waters through
1846 I, XIV | have given his life to have locked his mother in his arms;
1847 II, XIII| person, and you shall be lodged in the palace.”~“And if
1848 II, VI | man, who will not let them loiter on the way. You have heard
1849 I, IV | feared at that time, such as long-continuing and dense fogs, excessive
1850 II, V | instruments, the “doutare,” a long-handled guitar, the “kobize,” a
1851 I, IX | long hair, were very like long-legged bears. They were small but
1852 II, I | folds of a brilliant silk looped with golden cords and tassels,
1853 I, VII | open as ever and even too loquacious, the Englishman still silent
1854 I, I | never forgot himself. His loquacity even helped him to conceal
1855 I, XII | the travelers not be great lords or high functionaries, they
1856 II, I | to submit to the common lot, resolving to protest later,
1857 I, XI | animal lying on the ground, loth to leave it to the birds
1858 I, XVII| firing became gradually louder, and soon to the left of
1859 I, XI | am by nature too great a lover of peace to venture where
1860 II, VI | never again see those one loves. But they can see you, however;
1861 II, XI | confounded with the heavy, low-hanging clouds. At intervals a puff
1862 I, XII | greatest activity. However, the loyal Cossacks of the government
1863 II, VII | inwardly raged against the bad luck which pursued him, his hopes
1864 I, IV | breakage of the coupling of the luggage-van had first caused the shock
1865 I, XI | DISTRESS~DURING the momentary lull which followed, shouts could
1866 II, II | And if I go to meet this luminary of the heavens?”~“It is
1867 I, X | could no longer breathe; her lungs, that is to say those gloomy,
1868 I, X | their vehicle giving a worse lurch than usual, they knew that
1869 II, IV | of fruitful mines. In the luxury of its houses, its arrangements,
1870 I, V | velvets and silks from Lyons, English cottons, harness,
1871 II, XII | European as soon as he sees its macadamized roads, bordered with pavements,
1872 I, VII | Perm. Powerful as were her machines, the Caucasus could not
1873 II, X | likes to be spoken of as “Madam Sea.” If it is called “Sir
1874 I, X | wind and rain, was utter madness.~“To wait is indeed serious,”
1875 II, I | Ichim, had increased in magnitude? Did he think his cause
1876 II, IV | beautiful. Contrary to the Mahometan custom, and no doubt by
1877 I, IV | of the character of the maiden. Twelve versts before arriving
1878 II, XV | Ogareff. This man was the mainspring of the invasion, and he
1879 II, VI | which they had hitherto maintained. Nadia, after having been
1880 I, V | for three weeks. Formerly Makariew had the benefit of this
1881 | makes
1882 I, V | minerals from the Ural, malachite, lapis-lazuli, spices, perfumes,
1883 II, XI | Whether it was set on fire by malevolence or imprudence, in the twinkling
1884 I, II | race comprises the Mongols, Manchoux, and Thibetans.~The Tartars
1885 I, XIII| the boatmen again worked manfully but it soon become evident
1886 I, III | and when he arrived at manhood he could bear any amount
1887 II, VIII| follow this road until it was manifestly impossible to do so longer
1888 II, VIII| on a stool, working the manip-ulator!”~Michael had managed to
1889 I, XI | distance. His companion’s easy manners only increased his usual
1890 II, I | bows, and arrows of Asiatic manufacture; some the saber, a matchlock
1891 I, IV | were their commerce, their manufactures, the number of their inhabitants,
1892 I, VII | wearing boots, ornamented with many-colored braid, and the breast a
1893 I, IX | encroaches on Siberian territory. Marble quarries, mines of salt,
1894 I, V | amateurs, was a band of “mariners of the Volga,” sitting on
1895 II, XV | My cousin isn’t to be married!” answered Alcide, laughing.~“
1896 II, X | plot of ground; baptis-ing, marrying, burying. He had been able
1897 I, II | an oasis, surrounded by a marsh peopled with tortoises and
1898 I, XV | between the dense thicket of marsh-plants; again it would follow the
1899 II, VI | Berikylokoe, Kuskoe, the river Marunsk, the village of the same
1900 II, XIII| one could snatch off his mask. He resolved therefore to
1901 I, XV | provide themselves with masks of horse-hair, to which
1902 I, XIV | of the tarantass, and the massacre of the boatmen.~But Michael
1903 II, XI | seen by the Tartars, and massacred without mercy!~Michael returned
1904 II, I | the army would march en masse on the capital of Eastern
1905 II, X | they were more especially massed at the approaches to Irkutsk.~
1906 I, III | hair fell over his broad, massive forehead. When his ordinarily
1907 II, XI | light it, and exhibit the matchless spectacle of an ocean of
1908 II, I | manufacture; some the saber, a matchlock gun, and the “tschakane,”
1909 I, IV | Very close as to political matters.”~Whilst Alcide Jolivet
1910 II, XII | exiles abound; and, lastly, a mayor, chief of the merchants,
1911 I, I | without cessation polkas, mazurkas, schottisches, and waltzes
1912 I, XII | with Michael. Except when meals were to be taken at the
1913 I, I | ranks took part in that measured promenade, which on occasions
1914 I, II | Bokhara, surrounded by a wall measuring more than eight English
1915 II, VII | from one side to the other, mechanically, no doubt, as if he could
1916 I, III | glittered a cross and several medals.~Michael Strogoff belonged
1917 I, XI | were I a bear, I should not meddle with two so brave and so
1918 II, XII | followed his profession of a medical man in Irkutsk. He was clever
1919 I, V | lapis-lazuli, spices, perfumes, medicinal herbs, wood, tar, rope,
1920 I, III | CHAPTER III MICHAEL STROGOFF MEETS THE CZAR~THE door of the
1921 I, II | territories of Balkh, Aukoi, and Meimaneh. It possesses nineteen large
1922 I, XV | hesitation, and in spite of the melancholy thoughts which possessed
1923 I, V | Copts—singing their wildest melodies and dancing their most original
1924 I, V | jotted down in his book some memoranda particularly favorable to
1925 I, XI | in it wrote the following memorandum, destined to figure in a
1926 II, IX | force of Russians directly menacing Tomsk or Krasnoiarsk? Did
1927 I, V | their four-footed dancers, menageries resounded with the hoarse
1928 II, I | kalenders,” a sort of religious mendicants, clothed in rags, covered
1929 I, XII | versts, no event worthy of mention having occurred. The same
1930 II, VI | and a little mead, called “meod” in Russia. This had cost
1931 II, VIII| thermometer falls until the mercury is frozen nearly 42 degrees
1932 II, XI | Tartars, and massacred without mercy!~Michael returned to the
1933 I, I | attention either to the merriment of the younger guests or
1934 II, IV | at least gnaw through the meshes which imprisoned the lion.
1935 I, XVII| strange clerk that he had no message to send, that he only implored
1936 II, XII | Duke. “A brave and clever messenger managed this morning to
1937 I, IV | the disposal of the Czar’s messengers.~Michael Strogoff was a
1938 I, V | of modern civilization, Messrs. Harry Blount and Alcide
1939 I, XII | which may be seen a fine metal-refining factory and a bell foundry,
1940 II, V | a colored powder of some metallic ingredient, after the Chinese
1941 II, X | Lake,” or for some more meteorological reason, Lake Baikal is subject
1942 I, XII | agree with Blount, who was a methodical eater—they started, and
1943 I, XIV | an animal of strength and mettle, and Michael Strogoff, accomplished
1944 II, XII | Grand Duke, who traveled en militaire rather than en prince, without
1945 I, XII | traveler of the berlin, a military-looking man, apparently about forty
1946 I, I | some satisfaction.~“And mine only as far as Krasnoiarsk,”
1947 I, X | excavation bearing the marks of a miner’s pick, where the young
1948 I, V | harness, fruits, vegetables, minerals from the Ural, malachite,
1949 I, X | woods, not an encampment of miners near the mines, not a hut
1950 II, III | prisoners—was unable to mingle with the prisoners who had
1951 II, XI | the Caspian Sea, in Asia Minor, in China, on the Yuen-Kiang,
1952 I, XII | for in it is the chief mint of the empire. There also
1953 II, II | whom was God reserving His miracles if this good man, whom a
1954 | miss
1955 II, II | stranger was accepted with some mistrust. Gradually, however, the
1956 I, IX | Michael kept awake all night, mistrusting the iemschiks, who are apt
1957 I, III | small branches of trees, mists rising far away in the horizon,
1958 II, VII | All three waited until the misty curtain should rise. The
1959 I, VII | long robes and a sort of miter on their heads; Jews, known
1960 I, IV | thin cheeks by delicately mobile nostrils. The lips were
1961 I, XVII| telegram by singing in a mocking tone:~“II est un petit homme,
1962 II, VII | employment there.” In fact, this model clerk, after having stayed
1963 II, IX | cloudy and the temperature moderate. There was some fear that
1964 I, II | direct its effects, the modifications he had adopted with regard
1965 II, V | place among the houris of Mohammed’s heaven.~But what was remarkable,
1966 II, IX | miserable wretch, living in the mold of clay from which he is
1967 I, XI | TRAVELERS IN DISTRESS~DURING the momentary lull which followed, shouts
1968 I, IV | orders which emanate from a monarch who has the right to employ
1969 I, XII | sentences; Blount replied by monosyllables. Each looked at everything
1970 II, III | here and there break the monotony of the immense plain. There
1971 I, XI | retreated towards him.~It was a monstrous bear. The tempest had driven
1972 II, VII | magnificent wooden houses, of monumental aspect! Not a Siberian belle,
1973 I, I | Beneath his eyes, bathed in moonlight, lay a fortified inclosure,
1974 II, X | little point at which was moored a raft.~The raft was just
1975 II, X | eight in the evening the moorings were cast off, and the raft
1976 II, VI | lay sometimes across wide moors, which extended as far as
1977 I, IV | nor, hemp, nor flax, nor morocco, nor furs.”~“But do you
1978 I, XII | Russia. It is as though a morsel of Siberia lay in Russian
1979 II, VI | procured in the town some morsels of “tchornekhleb,” a sort
1980 I, XIV | Michael Strogoff was not mortal. By swimming in a manner
1981 I, IV | inhabitants, the average mortality, etc., and all this he wrote
1982 I, XIII| and two of the horses were mortally wounded.~At the next moment
1983 I, I | acuteness had these two ordinary mortals ascertained that which so
1984 I, I | moon.~This river was the Moskowa; the town Moscow; the fortified
1985 I, XV | disputes with tipulae, gnats, mosquitos, horse-flies, and millions
1986 I, III | satisfied with his scrutiny, motioned to the chief of police to
1987 I, IV | British assurance, “Country mountainous between Moscow and Wladimir.”~
1988 II, VII | slightest light, nor even smoke mounting into the air,” added Nadia.~“
1989 II, IX | hear?” said Nadia.~Then a mournful cry succeeded it—a despairing
1990 II, II | child, hope! Do as I do. The mourning which I wear is not yet
1991 I, IV | Kondinia, Vitepsk, and of Mstislaf, Governor of the Hyperborean
1992 I, VIII| Wassili Fedor. He was a much-esteemed physician at Riga. But his
1993 II, III | girl was ignorant that her much-regretted companion still lived, she
1994 I, IX | protects the travelers from the mud, and a strong leathern hood,
1995 I, XVI | deep, but very wide and muddy. Beneath this thick water
1996 I, I | lighted by hundreds of lusters multiplied tenfold by the numerous
1997 II, XIV | sudden eddy of the confused multitude, Michael and the young girl
1998 II, IV | burnings, its pillages, its murders, had perfectly sickened
1999 II, V | dancers, being added the last murmurs of the doutares and tambourines.~“
2000 I, XII | strongly-set head, and thick mus-taches meeting red whiskers. He
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