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2001 I, XIV | over himself that not a muscle of his face moved. There
2002 I, I | by the gay strains of the musicians.~The grand-chamberlain of
2003 II, XI | by the flashes from the muskets. Nadia crept along in front
2004 I, II | the dominion of Tartars, Mussulmen like themselves, and that
2005 II, XIV | felt that he was lost. But mustering all his courage, he sprang
2006 II, VIII| that of a moujik, horribly mutilated, and already cold. Nicholas
2007 I, X | Unfortunately, thunder muttering in the distance announced
2008 II, IX | Nadia again found a little mutton; but, contrary to Michael’
2009 II, II | which you have thrown on the mysteries of my heart, I cannot return
2010 II, II | glance, her reserve, and the mysterious sympathy which draws together
2011 I, I | French correspondent was named Alcide Jolivet. Harry Blount
2012 | namely
2013 II, I | beards— dressed in blue nankeen trimmed with black plush,
2014 I, I | the Emperor Alexander that Napoleon had just crossed the Niemen
2015 II, XIV | circumstance that in some narrower part of the Angara, the
2016 II, VII | drawn round in a gradually narrowing line, from which they could
2017 II, I | by officers of the same nation, and they were certainly
2018 I, II | species, because all the nations in this part of the world
2019 I, I | manner apparent only to the naturalist. It must be observed that
2020 II, V | calm and self-possessed nauch girls of India than the
2021 I, XV | them have experienced a nausea like sea-sickness.~Michael
2022 I, X | additional precaution, the nave-boxes were stuffed with straw,
2023 I, VII | into the Caspian Sea. It is navigable as far as Rjef, a town in
2024 II, XII | School, or at the School of Navigation. The Grand Duke, trusting
2025 I, X | Sometimes when the tarantass neared the side of the road, deep
2026 II, III | everywhere unmoved to wrath.”~“A neat little incident for our
2027 I, I | This Frenchman, however, neath his careless surface, was
2028 I, IV | a Siberian hunter can so neatly disembowel a bear, without
2029 I, IX | and are supplied with all necessaries.~At Perm travelers from
2030 II, IV | celebrated mines of Elbourz, necklaces of cornelians, agates, emeralds,
2031 I, XVI | hour of morning. It was needful to profit by the darkness
2032 I, XV | seems to bristle with fine needles, and one would almost say
2033 I, IV | not the slightest mark of negligence was to be discerned in her
2034 I, XVI | without even making the least neigh.~A few Usbeck horses raised
2035 II, X | whitened the summits of the neighboring hills. During the Siberian
2036 I, IV | a spy, and therefore his neighbors, without constraint, gossiped
2037 I, XVI | Usbeck’s horse, scenting him, neighed and began to trot along
2038 II, XIII| Grand Duke, who was of a nervous temperament, had great difficulty
2039 II, VI | the bottom; it’s like a nest. Serko, make room!”~The
2040 II, XV | moral and physical, had neutralized the action of the incandescent
2041 I, XVI | not only to examine the new-comers, but to hear what they said.
2042 I, IV | looking attentively at his newly-arrived fellow-traveler. As she
2043 II, XIV | that was not possible. The newly-frozen plain could not bear the
2044 I, VII | did not concern these two news-hunters, as they were neither Russians
2045 I, XII | separately, according as their news-hunting instinct set them on one
2046 I, I | as correspondent of what newspaper, or of what newspapers,
2047 II, IV | Cheek, as he was already nick-named—wearing the uniform of a
2048 I, I | Napoleon had just crossed the Niemen with the vanguard of the
2049 I, VIII| one of the great Russian nobles, who try to vie with the
2050 I, II | the art of war, are rather nocturnal thieves and plunderers of
2051 I, XVII| by Blount, Alcide Jolivet noiselessly took his place at the wicket,
2052 II, I | searched in vain for one of its nomad inhabitants. Not that the
2053 I, II | rebellion amongst their nomadic population. He then went
2054 I, XV | warrant its geographical nomenclature—Tchang, Chinese in name,
2055 II, I | said Blount candidly.~“Nonsense, stupid! All English are
2056 I, XVI | from the southwest to the northeast, the surface almost level
2057 I, XIII| from the southeast to the northwest and empties itself into
2058 I, IV | and of others; heir of Norway, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein,
2059 II, IV | in the first rank of its notables the chief of the merchants
2060 I, XIII| the ends in a series of notches cut below the gunwale, the
2061 I, IV | this he wrote down in a note-book, already full.~This was
2062 I, XI | his own joke, drew out his notebook, and in it wrote the following
2063 I, IV | moreover, it was, by special notification, made available in the event
2064 I, IV | not given him any document notifying that he was on the Emperor’
2065 I, VIII| sketching different types, or noting some observation; Alcide
2066 I, III | which, as the celebrated novelist Tourgueneff says, “will
2067 I, II | that these Kirghiz, mere novices in the art of war, are rather
2068 I, IV | happily for them, was in nowise suspicious.~The young girl
2069 II, III | soldiers and civilians, numbered some thousands, and formed
2070 I, XI | was given in favor of the nurse?”~“What was he, pray?”~“
2071 I, XI | payment of twelve months’ nursing of some poor little infant?”~“
2072 II, IX | evaporation, preserve their nutritive qualities for an indefinite
2073 I, I | was a cabinet with plain oak furniture, situated in an
2074 I, VIII| alders, and sometimes large oaks.~But these beauties of nature
2075 I, XIII| Several boats, aided by oars as well as by the current,
2076 I, II | triple cordon, situated in an oasis, surrounded by a marsh peopled
2077 I, IV | Jaroslavl, Bielozersk, Oudoria, Obdoria, Kondinia, Vitepsk, and
2078 II, XI | unnecessary to give it an oblique direction until they drew
2079 II, XI | rapidly over the floe in the obscurity, only broken now and again
2080 I, V | according to a time-honored observance in the fair of Nijni-Novgorod,
2081 I, I | carried out.”~“You will observe the strictest silence as
2082 II, X | not yet great enough to obstruct the course of the raft,
2083 I, IV | transpired in some degree. The occupants of the carriage, whom chance
2084 I, IX | be pulled quite over the occupiers, shelters them from the
2085 I, I | Nevertheless, the important occurrence which had occasioned these
2086 I, VII | speak of nothing but the occurrences of the day, of the order
2087 I, I | and around this chef-d’oeuvre of chased gold reflected
2088 I, II | since?”~“No, sire; for an offender only becomes really dangerous
2089 I, XVI | defensively with a shield, and offensively with a curved sword, and
2090 I, X | weather and broad daylight, offers difficulties and perils
2091 I, VI | China, filled the court and offices of the police station.~Everyone
2092 I, I | officially, it is true, nor even officiously, since tongues were not
2093 I, IV | Stormarn, Dittmarsen, and Oldenburg.” A powerful lord, in truth,
2094 I, VIII| tall and well made, with olive complexion, magnificent
2095 I, X | horses began to struggle onward. They could no longer rear,
2096 II, II | noble object was urging onwards, had been allowed to perish
2097 II, IV | cornelians, agates, emeralds, opals, and sapphires— that her
2098 II, IV | as if he had been at the Opera, and taking his glass from
2099 II, XIV | was to strike before his opponent was aware of his approach,
2100 II, VIII| This increase was very opportune, for something would soon
2101 II, XIII| battle with the Tartars— opportunities which came too seldom for
2102 I, X | suffering more from the oppression of the air than the roughness
2103 II, X | of the river, and, by an optical illusion, it appeared as
2104 I, V | Alcide Jolivet. Jolivet, an optimist by nature, found everything
2105 I, II | center of that military organization of Western Siberia which
2106 II, XII | the sick he employed in organizing the defense. It was he who
2107 I, V | melodies and dancing their most original dances; comedians of foreign
2108 I, II | Albazine, Blagowstenks, Radde, Orlomskaya, Alexandrowskoe, and Nikolaevsk;
2109 II, XI | to pieces in the ice. The osier ropes would break, the fir
2110 II, X | fastened together with osiers, made a platform on which
2111 | otherwise
2112 I, IV | Jaroslavl, Bielozersk, Oudoria, Obdoria, Kondinia, Vitepsk,
2113 II, VIII| new invaders, and by what out-of-the-way path across the steppe had
2114 II, III | bit better off from this outbreak of his?”~“I do not know
2115 I, V | classes, they were completely outdone by their visitors. There
2116 II, VII | seven in the evening; the outline of the churches and of the
2117 I, I | the darkness, the vague outlines of the countless towers,
2118 I, VII | abruptly broken up at its outset.~The waves caused by the
2119 I, XVI | sharp trot. My horse cannot outstrip them. If they are Russians
2120 II, II | that from motives which outweighed everything else, motives
2121 II, VIII| exhausted, he found in an oven a dozen “pogatchas,” a kind
2122 I, IV | necessary. The police are not over-particular in these times, and you
2123 I, II | Siberia which is intended to overawe the Kirghiz population.
2124 I, XIII| cried Michael, ready to jump overboard.~The girl was about to follow
2125 II, IX | entrances to villages. Nadia, overcoming her repugnance, looked at
2126 II, II | However, one day her heart overflowed, and she told all the events
2127 II, III | it would be impossible to overhear anything of a nature to
2128 I, XVII| devastated by the invasion, overrun by the Emir’s scouts, and
2129 I, I | of cloud had appeared to overshadow the sovereign’s brow.”~“
2130 I, XIII| right bank before the boats overtake us.”~Incited by these words,
2131 I, XII | he would not be long in overtaking it. This was neither a tarantass
2132 II, X | watched beside her; sleep only overtook him at long intervals, and
2133 I, XV | be an eagle that he might overtop all obstacles, to be a hurricane
2134 II, XIV | least he would direct the overwhelming mass of its assailants against
2135 II, VIII| Certainly, it would not do to overwork the horse, for very probably
2136 I, II | Grand Duke that Ogareff owes his first disgrace; and
2137 I, XI | of a lawsuit against the owner of the telga.~“A lawsuit
2138 I, V | samples of the goods which the owners thus announced were there
2139 I, II | whilst speaking, and now paced up and down with hurried
2140 I, II | Europe, to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, it is bounded on
2141 I, I | visible numerous sentries, pacing silently up and down, their
2142 I, VII | only by the noise of the paddles striking the water at regular
2143 II, X | carried at his waist a little padlocked collecting-box, as if it
2144 II, IV | let his finger rest on the page of the Koran. The chief
2145 II, II | sufferings, this silent pair—one seeming to be the grandmother,
2146 I, I | rose two cathedrals, three palaces, and an arsenal. Around
2147 I, XII | shame, had replaced the paleness on his countenance.~Nadia
2148 II, I | exhausted all the colors of his palette.~Feofar’s tent overlooked
2149 I, IV | scarcely changed by a slight pallor.~She waited—Michael Strogoff
2150 II, III | appearance unmoved, but the palm of his hand bled under his
2151 II, VII | before a small picture of the Panaghia, hung on the wall, and still
2152 I, I | masses of damask.~Through the panes of the vast semicircular
2153 I, IV | doors were opened, and the panic-stricken passengers thought only
2154 II, X | clothes of serge.~As to the papa, or priest, he was a plain
2155 I, V | and come to supper. The papluka is waiting for you.”~Michael
2156 I, IV | service, which is the Sesame par excellence. He contented
2157 II, III | other than Alcide Jolivet. “Par-dieu!” said he to Blount, “they
2158 I, XII | land of exile where her parent was condemned to live, for
2159 II, X | himself had stayed in his parish up to the last moment; then
2160 II, V | it may be thought that a Parisian reporter would be perfectly
2161 II, XIV | failed. The knife had simply parried the blow from the traitor’
2162 I, I | Anglo-Norman, formal, cold, grave, parsimonious of gestures and words, appeared
2163 II, V | the sky, each bearing a parti-colored lantern, and under a fresher
2164 I, XVII| the same time the smoke partially cleared, and it became evident
2165 I, I | would have defined their particular characteristics by saying,
2166 II, V | further, and yet to give him a parting blow?~Ivan Ogareff slowly
2167 II, XIV | ran distracted through the passages, calling her companion,
2168 II, XV | the Strogoffs. She clasped passionately in her arms the girl whom
2169 I, IV | her turn, exhibited, not a passport, since passports are no
2170 I, IV | exhibited, not a passport, since passports are no longer required in
2171 II, X | he was a plain village pastor, one of the six hundred
2172 II, X | hundred thousand popular pastors which the Russian Empire
2173 II, VIII| He was in no want of rich pasturage along the road, the grass
2174 I, XV | hardened blisters of skin, pastured their poor herds of sheep.
2175 II, VI | honest big head, just made to pat, and he, moreover, appeared
2176 II, XIII| population of Irkutsk were too patriotic to let themselves be moved.
2177 I, I | palace. The steps also of the patrols could be heard beating time
2178 I, XVI | found him lying down. He patted and spoke gently to him,
2179 II, XI | like a tempest of hail, and pattered on the ice. Their hands
2180 I, I | of the Preobra-jensky and Paulowsky regiments had played without
2181 II, XII | macadamized roads, bordered with pavements, traversed by canals, planted
2182 II, I | of the khanat. A special pavilion, ornamented with a horse’
2183 I, XI | bear, and, as it raised its paws to strike her down, gave
2184 I, XI | the wet-nurse who claimed payment of twelve months’ nursing
2185 I, XI | nature too great a lover of peace to venture where fighting
2186 II, X | amazed a tourist traveling in peaceful times on this Siberian sea.~
2187 I, X | see huge pines on a high peak, bending before the blast.
2188 I, XI | died away among the distant peaks. When the sound of the last
2189 I, X | terrified by the incessant peals of thunder, threatened every
2190 II, V | leathern belts embroidered with pearls, from which hung little
2191 II, VIII| deserted villages. The Siberian peasantry had vanished. It was a desert,
2192 I, X | their iron hoofs among the pebbles, sparks flying out on every
2193 I, XIII| his shoulders.~Then in a peculiarly calm tone, “Be off, my friend,”
2194 II, VII | wide, clean streets. Not a pedestrian enlivened the footpaths
2195 I, X | tarantass encountered neither pedestrians nor horsemen, nor a vehicle
2196 II, II | of beggars, freebooters, pedlars, and gypsies, which compose
2197 I, VII | shirts under their wide pelisses; peasants of the Volga,
2198 I, I | interrupting his brother of the pen.~“Yes,” returned Alcide
2199 I, I | source of which eluded their penetration; but none ventured to interrogate
2200 I, VIII| thus left alone and almost penniless. Nadia Fedor then asked,
2201 II, I | amidst banners, flags, and pennons of every color. The richest
2202 | per
2203 I, XIII| EVERYTHING~NADIA, with the clear perception of a right-minded woman,
2204 II, VIII| sitting twelve hours a day, perched on a stool, working the
2205 I, IX | extraordinary, known by the name of “perck-ladnoi,” is carried by the telga,
2206 I, VI | Irkutsk, but the order was peremptory— it annulled all previous
2207 I, I | one had been singularly perfected by practice. The sensibility
2208 I, I | must be observed that this perfection of sight and hearing was
2209 I, V | malachite, lapis-lazuli, spices, perfumes, medicinal herbs, wood,
2210 I, VI | conditions which made it not only perilous but expensive?~“Well,” said
2211 I, IV | unpronounceable names, the Permiaks, the Germans, the Greeks,
2212 I, IX | have done so, had he been permitted to wait; but when, at the
2213 I, XVII| Michael became greatly perplexed.~He was not more than half
2214 II, X | place for three days in much perplexity, when the raft arrived.
2215 I, XV | escape from the stings of his persecutors. Having become insensible,
2216 II, VI | other hand, by energetic perseverance he could reach Krasnoiarsk,
2217 I, V | simple merchant he wished to personate.~“Come forward, then, so
2218 I, II | endeavored, both by force and persuasion, to subdue the Kirghiz hordes.~
2219 I, XVII| mocking tone:~“II est un petit homme, Tout habille de gris,
2220 II, XII | answered the head of police, “a petition which is addressed to you
2221 I, III | an important mission to Petropolowski, in Kamtschatka, the extreme
2222 II, IV | value. Under her blue-silk petticoat, fell the “zirdjameh” of
2223 II, II | thought of separating. The petty questions of rivalry were
2224 I, I | the contrary, lively and petulant, expressed himself with
2225 II, I | Jolivet, whose practical philosophy never abandoned him, had
2226 II, VII | situation? Was it with him phlegm or contempt of danger, courage
2227 I, I | with this eminently French phrase.~“I have telegraphed already, ‘
2228 II, II | language, giving to his phrases the emphatic turn which
2229 I, VIII| He was a much-esteemed physician at Riga. But his connection
2230 I, I | superficial observer; but a physiognomist, regarding them closely,
2231 I, I | these astute politicians—physiognomists by virtue of their profession—
2232 I, III | to the definition of the physiologist. He possessed a fine nose,
2233 I, X | bearing the marks of a miner’s pick, where the young girl could
2234 II, IV | enriched by the spade and pickax, and though it has not the
2235 I, XII | burrow beneath the earth? The pickaxe is everywhere at work; the
2236 I, XIV | bivouacked. The horses, picketed but still saddled, were
2237 I, I | the New Palace. Several pictures, amongst others some by
2238 I, XI | and call you my little pigeon, like a true iemschik, and
2239 I, VII | cows, sheep, and herds of pigs. Fields, sown with thin
2240 II, I | black hair plaited into pigtails, which hung down their back;
2241 II, X | during his long and fatiguing pilgrimage, nothing was for himself;
2242 II, IV | invasion, its burnings, its pillages, its murders, had perfectly
2243 I, X | crossbar, fixed by means of pins and screws.~Nadia resumed
2244 I, V | holding his cherry-stemmed pipe, appeared the most indifferent
2245 II, IV | above the sash lay the “pirahn.” But from the head to the
2246 II, II | Stephan Razine, the celebrated pirate who ravaged Southern Russia
2247 I, XI | Suddenly, close by he heard a pistol-shot.~“Ah! forward, sirs!” cried
2248 II, V | with bare sabers and long pistols, and, as they executed dances,
2249 II, VIII| and made straight for a pit, some thirty or forty feet
2250 I, XI | Blount’s ire to its highest pitch, and had not the iemschik
2251 I, VII | Caucasus, and showed themselves pitiless to those travelers who did
2252 I, XIV | and regarding him with pitying eyes. “Do not speak, little
2253 II, I | height, with black hair plaited into pigtails, which hung
2254 II, IV | hair, divided into four plaits, fell over her dazzling
2255 I, XV | joists shook like a too weak plank thrown across an abyss.
2256 I, X | threw himself behind it, and planting his feet on the ground,
2257 I, I | valuable china and gold plate. On the central table, reserved
2258 II, V | torches alone lighted up the plateau, which a few instants before
2259 I, II | as being a rebel, is also playing the part of a traitor, and
2260 II, VI | face was phlegmatic, but pleasant, and at once inspired confidence.
2261 II, VIII| Decidedly,” said he, “this is pleasanter than sitting twelve hours
2262 I, I | charming!” said Alcide Jolivet pleasantly, thinking himself obliged
2263 I, V | vessel! A whimsical and pleasing custom!~Suddenly, according
2264 II, V | would rush off to enjoy the pleasures of intoxication.~The Emir
2265 I, V | the company whose boats plied between Nijni-Novgorod and
2266 II, IX | They must still continue to plod on across this weary steppe
2267 II, X | laboring like a peasant on his plot of ground; baptis-ing, marrying,
2268 II, XV | invasion, and he alone, by his plots long since contrived, had
2269 I, VII | steamer’s chimney sent forth a plume of ruddy flames, the sparks
2270 II, V | fact it was the result of plunder which was falling; for,
2271 I, II | rather nocturnal thieves and plunderers of caravans than regular
2272 I, XV | not to be thrown by the plungings of his horse, and the sudden
2273 II, I | nankeen trimmed with black plush, sword-belts of leather
2274 I, VII | its course.~The steamboats plying between Perm and Nijni-Novgorod
2275 I, III | name with the words “Byt po semou,” which, signifying “
2276 I, IV | Smolensk, Lithuania, Volkynia, Podolia, and Finland, Prince of
2277 II, VI | Englishman telegraphed some poetry.”~“That is possible, but
2278 II, VIII| found in an oven a dozen “pogatchas,” a kind of cake prepared
2279 I, XV | from which the sun draws poisonous exhalations, that the road
2280 I, XV | two o’clock he halted at Pokrowskoe. His horse, jaded since
2281 I, IV | Kasan and Astrakhan, Czar of Poland, Czar of Siberia, Czar of
2282 I, III | higher latitudes, where the polar night is prolonged for many
2283 I, XIII| Michael himself seized a pole and wielded it with superhuman
2284 I, II | Ural Mountains in charge of policemen, ought never again to cross
2285 II, X | people who are so wanting in politeness as to call it “Sir Lake,”
2286 I, I | or three of these astute politicians—physiognomists by virtue
2287 II, I | Oh, do not let us talk politics,” cried Jolivet. “It is
2288 I, I | played without cessation polkas, mazurkas, schottisches,
2289 I, I | therefore, the signal for the “polonaise” resounded through the saloons,
2290 I, IV | Nijni-Novgorod, Tchemigoff, Riazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Jaroslavl, Bielozersk,
2291 II, III | latter suspended to the pommels of the saddles, while the
2292 I, XI | and that most heartily. ‘Pon my word I never saw anything
2293 I, XV | and it is in the midst of ponds, pools, lakes, and swamps,
2294 II, XV | asked Alcide of his friend.~“Pooh!” said Blount. “Now if I
2295 II, VII | with alders, willows, and poplars, looking like verdant ships,
2296 II, XII | of Eastern Siberia, is a populous town, containing, in ordinary
2297 I, IV | twenty-five wagons, two portable boats, and two pieces of
2298 II, I | worked hard, each in the portions of the enclosure in which
2299 I, V | scarcely possible truly to portray the moving mass of human
2300 I, IV | the idea that she was the possessor of great moral energy— a
2301 I, XII | tarantass nor a telga, but a post-berlin, which looked as if it had
2302 I, XI | will trot off like a real post-horse.”~“Mr. Jolivet,” replied
2303 II, II | sixpence a number, including postage.” And thereupon he returned
2304 II, XIV | especially severe. The Russians posted by the bank of the Angara,
2305 I, XV | the villages and in the posting-houses. It was with difficulty
2306 I, X | might have been allowable to postpone the journey till the morning.
2307 I, XVII| moment, was about to add this postscript to his dispatch: “Harry
2308 II, XII | minarets, its domes like pot-bellied Chinese jars, presents something
2309 I, V | abstinence, rejected the potatoes in front of him, and carefully
2310 I, VI | feeling no fatigue, obeying a potent instinct which allowed no
2311 I, XVII| race! ’Tis for a thousand pound!’” And Blount turned round
2312 I, VII | had only a right to twenty pounds’ weight.~In the bows of
2313 I, II | found chiefs willing to pour their Tartar hordes into
2314 I, XI | tone he demanded the usual “pour-boire.”~This very cool request
2315 I, V | barley bread, some curds, powdered sugar mixed with cinnamon,
2316 II, IX | was treading no longer on powdery soil but on short grass.~“
2317 II, I | affair of Kolyvan all the powers of his mind were concentrated
2318 I, X | which is the Tartar, or the Poyas, which is the Russian name,
2319 II, I | the camp.~Jolivet, whose practical philosophy never abandoned
2320 II, X | much feared by the rafts, prahms, and steamboats, which furrow
2321 I, XV | into the midst of a grassy prairie, differing greatly from
2322 I, IX | beasts, but the words “na pravo,” to the right, “na levo,”
2323 II, X | pilgrims were repeating their prayers aloud, and the old boatman,
2324 I, VIII| in the stern, and without preamble, Nadia, lowering her voice
2325 II, V | each verse, following the precept it contained, they either
2326 I, IV | in her compartment were precipitating themselves outside, screaming
2327 I, XIV | Michael Strogoff, owing to his precipitous retreat.~The detachment
2328 I, VII | if you like. There is a precision in your words, my dear fellow,
2329 I, II | followed in the steps of his predecessors.~The khanat of Bokhara has
2330 I, IV | spoken. The Sclavonian race predominates, no doubt, but there are
2331 I, VII | after all, was a good deal preferable to imprisonment in a fortress.
2332 I, I | evening the bands of the Preobra-jensky and Paulowsky regiments
2333 I, IV | observing how much recent events preoccupied the merchants of Nijni-Novgorod,
2334 I, V | another point of view, and was preparing an article of the most withering
2335 I, VI | and Michael thought of presenting his podorojna at the office
2336 I, IV | means of transport, until presently no one will be allowed to
2337 II, IX | improbability, and felt that the preservation of the Grand Duke depended
2338 I, VIII| university. The varied population preserves an Asiatic character. Although
2339 I, I | officers of the palace, presided personally in the arrangement
2340 II, I | jealousy with regard to Russian pretensions in Central Asia.~“Oh, do
2341 I, V | quit the province upon any pretext whatsoever.~“2nd. All strangers
2342 I, IV | beauty rather than mere prettiness. From beneath a sort of
2343 II, II | miserably? Then anger would prevail over grief. The scene of
2344 II, III | going to and fro, until a prick from a soldier’s lance obliged
2345 II, XIV | of tow, impregnated with priming powder, which he threw into
2346 I, I | reserved for the princes, princesses, and members of the corps
2347 I, V | bird-fanciers opened the prison doors of their captives,
2348 II, IV | their companions into the prisons in the town.~In the first
2349 II, II | these people, enfeebled by privations. More than one corpse would
2350 I, XIII| carriages would be a fine prize for them.~Only by dint of
2351 I, VIII| his own peculiar mode of proceeding; Harry Blount, sketching
2352 I, I | New Palace, formed to this procession of exalted personages and
2353 II, I | barbarians, who only replied by prods with a lance or sword. The
2354 II, XIV | traitor planned also to produce so frightful a catastrophe
2355 II, VIII| respected in its natural productions, its forests now bore trace
2356 II, XII | exercised their different professions, some doctors, some professors,
2357 II, XII | professions, some doctors, some professors, either at the Gymnasium,
2358 I, VI | could scarcely be seen, the profile alone being visible against
2359 I, XIV | consequently, pillage more profitable.~Above the mercantile town
2360 I, IV | either, I suppose.”~“And the profits, Father Abraham!” exclaimed
2361 I, XVI | midnight the steppe was profoundly dark. The sound of the horses’
2362 I, IX | already sketched out his programme. A vehicle carrying the
2363 II, XIII| be warned of the criminal projects of Ivan Ogareff against
2364 I, VI | which form, as it were, a prolongation of the river along the Russian
2365 I, I | took part in that measured promenade, which on occasions of this
2366 II, VII | the last French fashion, promenaded the beautiful park, cleared
2367 I, III | away with a full heart, but promising to come and see her whenever
2368 I, IV | energy was evidently both prompt and persistent, and her
2369 I, XV | left the posting-house so promptly. The orders of Ivan Ogareff
2370 I, VI | the new measures had been promulgated was no longer available.
2371 II, XII | had given incontestable proofs. The news of the taking
2372 I, XIII| the boat. The two boatmen propelled their barge with long poles,
2373 I, XVII| government, when it thinks proper. For the public, when they
2374 I, XIV | Asiatic Russia resides. Omsk, properly so called, is composed of
2375 I, XV | Hitherto the weather had been propitious for his journey. The temperature
2376 II, XI | there to guide him. But in proportion as she drew nearer to Irkutsk,
2377 II, XII | to determine upon various proposals.~“Gentlemen,” said the Grand
2378 II, VIII| the Tartars. He was just proposing to Nicholas to leave the
2379 I, XII | beyond the limits of strict propriety, showed that he was greatly
2380 II, IV | passed each was obliged to prostrate himself, with his forehead
2381 II, VI | soundness proving her complete prostration. Michael and Nicholas laid
2382 II, XI | deep gloom again threw its protecting shadows over the raft. The
2383 I, IX | rough roads. A splash-board protects the travelers from the mud,
2384 I, VI | unusual measure a murmur of protestation, a cry of despair, but this
2385 I, I | sallow as are the southern Provencals, while the former was ruddy
2386 II, II | suffering.~However, a kind Providence had placed near her a courageous,
2387 I, IX | could be found lodging and provision. Besides, if there was not
2388 II, VI | faithful Serko. The kibitka was provisioned for at least twenty persons,
2389 I, XII | CHAPTER XII PROVOCATION~EKATERENBURG, geographically,
2390 I, IV | had agents, instructed to provoke a rising in the interior.
2391 I, XI | and had not the iemschik prudently retreated, a straight-out
2392 II, X | the belt, and they chanted psalms in a plaintive voice: one
2393 I, IV | Chersonese, Seignior of Pskov, Prince of Smolensk, Lithuania,
2394 I, IX | singular that, after the publication of the order, a young man
2395 I, VIII| governor of the province had published an order identical with
2396 II, XI | low-hanging clouds. At intervals a puff of wind came from the east,
2397 I, VI | ones, and made nothing of pulling down the tents even before
2398 I, V | wood, tar, rope, horn, pumpkins, water-melons, etc— all
2399 II, XV | like a lemon in a bowl of punch!”~Their joy was great on
2400 I, XV | burning night and day, and the pungent smoke of which floated over
2401 II, I | as if they had lost the pupil,—all enrolled under the
2402 II, VI | half over his eyes. The pupils seemed to be singularly
2403 I, IX | passing from Europe to Asia purchase carriages, or sleighs in
2404 I, V | announced were there to the purchasers—a singular, and somewhat
2405 I, XIV | after nightfall. As for purchasing a carriage to replace the
2406 I, I | fences, with the ardor of pure-blooded racers, who will run “a
2407 I, IV | truly charming, was of the purest Sclavonic type— slightly
2408 I, IV | that the Russian government purposed taking severe measures to
2409 I, XIV | nor searched thee; and thy purse is still in thy pocket.”~
2410 I, XIII| Siberian, but the other did not quail before it.~“Do you dare
2411 I, XII | but in its bowels lay hid quantities of iron, copper, platina,
2412 II, IX | find in one of the houses a quantity of dried meat and “soukharis,”
2413 I, IX | Siberian territory. Marble quarries, mines of salt, platina,
2414 II, I | floated the Tartar flag, quartered with the Emir’s arms.~In
2415 II, VII | air,” added Nadia.~“What a queer town!” said Nicholas. “They
2416 I, VII | The pencil of an artist in quest of the picturesque would
2417 II, VIII| Nicholas to make his horse quicken his pace. To obtain this
2418 I, XV | could be exchanged for a quicker conveyance.~At midnight
2419 I, XII | unmoved, and Michael, still quivering, remained alone in the room.
2420 I, XVII| Blount turned round with a quizzical look at his rival.~Alcide
2421 I, I | the ardor of pure-blooded racers, who will run “a good first”
2422 I, II | Albazine, Blagowstenks, Radde, Orlomskaya, Alexandrowskoe,
2423 II, VI | retina and optic nerve was radically destroyed by the fierce
2424 II, I | skillfully placed the wet rag on Harry Blount’s shoulder.~“
2425 I, III | to the hunt, carrying the ragatina or spear to aid his father,
2426 II, I | religious mendicants, clothed in rags, covered by a leopard skin,
2427 I, II | separates the two Siberias.~No rail yet furrows these wide plains,
2428 I, XII | appeared on the Vladimir railroad. She recalled his attentions
2429 I, XV | the reservoir to all the rain-water which finds no outlet either
2430 II, V | Tartar tomans and sequins, rained also Russian ducats and
2431 I, XV | Kamakore the very heavy rains of some previous weeks were
2432 II, VIII| It was neither stormy nor rainy. The health of Nadia and
2433 II, XII | had obeyed the order to rally in the town, and leave the
2434 II, IX | ground, having been tightly rammed down, was as hard as stone,
2435 I, IV | foreigner to avenge his personal rancor, had rejoined Feofar-Khan,
2436 I, II | the chief of police.~“He ranked as colonel, did he not?”~“
2437 I, III | of the Czar’s couriers, ranking as an officer among those
2438 I, II | and Koondooz, cruel and rapacious warriors, all ready to join
2439 I, XIII| s hesitation, either the rascal traded on the traveler’s
2440 I, V | believer” of the sect of Raskalniks, made the vow of abstinence,
2441 II, XII | Czar will not refuse to ratify that pardon,” said he, smiling; “
2442 I, XVII| artillery, and above it a crisp rattle which could not be mistaken.~“
2443 II, XII | probably not extend its ravages. The harvests of corn and
2444 I, VIII| brightly the gold~In my raven locks streaming~Rich coral
2445 II, II | cruel descendants of Stephan Razine, the celebrated pirate who
2446 II, V | dances, they made the air re-echo with the sudden detonations
2447 II, III | has brought from Moscow reaches Irkutsk, if it is given
2448 II, XIII| thousand Tartars were kept in readiness at the outposts, to attack
2449 I, II | plains, some of which are in reality extremely fertile. No iron
2450 I, X | onward. They could no longer rear, and the middle horse not
2451 I, X | precipice. The frightened horses reared, and their driver could
2452 I, V | as would have seemed more reasonable after a long railway journey?
2453 I, I | saloon, his countenance reassuming that calm aspect which had
2454 II, VIII| credulity, and endeavored to reassure him, “There is nothing to
2455 I, II | is a favorable land for rebellions.”~“Do you mean to say. General,
2456 I, VIII| the new passengers, and recalling the former ones. It was
2457 I, XIV | Tomsk—a corps intended to recapture that town from the Tartars
2458 II, III | versts he must have been recaptured. The Tartar horsemen swarmed—
2459 I, XI | iemschik, who had succeeded in recapturing his two horses, reappeared.
2460 I, VII | the stern, gazed at the receding town, so disturbed by the
2461 II, I | chief of the council, who receives the prince’s kiss, and may
2462 | recently
2463 II, XIII| face was disfigured by a recently-healed scar. The man had evidently
2464 I, IV | more exposed. The idea of reckoning on the exports of a country
2465 II, XI | subject, but hang me if I can recollect it!” And with his well-practiced
2466 I, XVI | of these horses, but he recollected that, of course, they would
2467 II, VII | rest too. To-morrow we will recommence our journey!”~Michael and
2468 II, XII | will he be?”~“They wish to recommend to your Highness,” said
2469 I, IX | tips dealt out so freely, recommended the travelers in a special
2470 I, XIII| soldiers, on their way to reconnoiter around Omsk.~The ferryboat
2471 II, XIII| with the empire.~Ogareff recounted, with an assurance which
2472 I, XIV | nature, he willingly had recourse to the vilest trickery;
2473 I, VI | now reached its height. Recriminations from the banished strangers,
2474 I, XVII| ask or take something to recruit his strength, for he was
2475 I, XV | thought of himself, and recruited his strength by a hasty
2476 II, I | it. There were Usbecks, red-bearded, small in stature, similar
2477 II, I | brutes, if you like! But what redeems them is that they are French.
2478 I, VII | This, of course, made him redouble his attention. It was, indeed,
2479 II, II | all the refinement of a RedSkin in order to wrest her secret
2480 II, V | the “tschibyzga,” a long reed flute; wind instruments,
2481 I, XII | principally for the working and refining of gold and platina.~Just
2482 I, V | front of him, and carefully refrained from putting sugar in his
2483 II, III | to Marfa’s lips. Then she refreshed herself. They found new
2484 I, XVI | came on, bringing with it refreshing coolness after the heat
2485 I, V | which would enable him to regain lost time.~Here, then, was
2486 I, I | aware of that?”~“I am!”~“As regards myself, it would be difficult
2487 I, IX | their papers were all en regle and they had the right to
2488 I, XI | horses, reappeared. He cast a regretful glance at the magnificent
2489 II, XIV | Irkutsk, Ogareff might have regretted. He did not do so, however.
2490 I, I | stones beneath with even more regularity than the feet of the dancers
2491 I, VII | dear, for, according to the regulations, each person had only a
2492 I, II | was not thus under the new reign, and the chief of police
2493 II, V | since the accession of the reigning family, banished or treated
2494 I, XVI | detachment.~Without drawing rein, Michael extended his revolver,
2495 I, IX | felt, notwithstanding my reindeer coat, my heart growing chill,
2496 II, XIV | he counselled the Duke to reinforce the two directly threatened
2497 II, II | a garrison in Omsk, and, reinforcing himself en route with the
2498 II, XI | But what is only a sign of rejoicing at Bakou, might prove a
2499 II, III | lived, she at least knew his relationship to her whom she had made
2500 II, XIII| watchfulness of the besieged would relax. At any rate, several thousand
2501 II, VI | intoxicated, had unconsciously relaxed the vigilant guard which
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