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2502 II, IX | ground with his knife to release his friend! The eyes of
2503 II, XII | population of Irkutsk may be relied on,” said General Voranzoff.~“
2504 I, XIV | breast. He breathed a sigh of relief.~But that was not all. “
2505 I, II | the Greek and Mussulman religions. For some time, indeed,
2506 I, III | this promise he had always religiously kept.~When Michael was twenty,
2507 I, IV | merchant, who had little relish for that sort of joke.~“
2508 II, XIII| pretended only to answer with reluctance when much pressed with questions.
2509 I, XV | to what extent he could rely upon him. In buying him
2510 I, II | this corner of Tartary. Relying on the other khans—principally
2511 I, VIII| of the young dancers were remarkably pretty, all possessing the
2512 I, XII | him and retired, Jolivet remarking to Harry Blount~“I could
2513 I, XV | no doubt, contained the remedy for so many evils, the safety
2514 I, V | the man.~Michael Strogoff, remembering that, above all, prudence
2515 I, VI | from the proclamation. The remembrance of the young Livonian girl
2516 I, XIII| Ichim, with its disagreeable remembrances, was soon left far behind.~
2517 II, II | other hand, never tried to remind him of it. This friendship
2518 I, VIII| the first rays of the sun, reminded Michael of the curious appearance
2519 II, III | wolves would devour the remnants of their bones.~As Nadia
2520 I, XV | there over night. In this remote village of the Baraba news
2521 I, II | race, which, as Abel de Remusat says, “is regarded in Europe
2522 I, XIII| changed to a regular torrent, rendering the passage difficult enough.
2523 I, XVII| southern steppe.~Just then renewed firing broke out close to
2524 I, XVII| a citizen of credit and renown; a train-band captain eke
2525 I, IX | as solid and as easy to repair as the telga, and is, moreover,
2526 I, IX | nothing could be more easily repaired. There is no want of firs
2527 II, X | hour, in order to make some repairs. The trunks threatened to
2528 I, XI | no longer listened to the repartee which Harry Blount and Alcide
2529 II, II | Forgive me, Nadia; I can never repay what you have done for me.”~“
2530 II, X | this time the pilgrims were repeating their prayers aloud, and
2531 I, XIV | vigorously made but bravely repelled, had not yet been able to
2532 I, I | among the choicest of their repertoires. Innumerable couples of
2533 II, V | pronounced the words, which this repetition rendered more and more sinister:~“
2534 II, II | friendship too assisted the reporting operations, and was thus
2535 I, II | banished.~Two governor-generals represent the supreme authority of
2536 II, IV | residence of the Czar’s representative, it can boast of including
2537 II, I | scheikh-oul-islam,” chief of the Ulemas, representing the priests; the “cazi-askev,”
2538 II, VII | the same to you!”~“Do not reproach yourself, friend,” replied
2539 II, IV | unintentionally done him, for she reproached herself with not having
2540 I, II | reply to these indirect reproaches cast on his policy, continued
2541 I, VII | would have found nothing to reproduce in this monotonous landscape.~
2542 II, IX | villages. Nadia, overcoming her repugnance, looked at all these corpses!~
2543 II, XI | like other beasts of prey, require darkness for their proceedings,
2544 I, IX | this way of driving, which requires the iemschiks to possess
2545 I, XV | own feverish impatience, requiring of him one thing only, namely,
2546 I, IV | and transactions. After requisitioning the horses, they will take
2547 I, IX | Perm travelers from Siberia resell their vehicles, more or
2548 II, XI | millions from the houses, which resembled so many glowing furnaces.
2549 I, XIII| sacrificed to duty even his resentment at the gross injury he had
2550 II, II | girl’s clear glance, her reserve, and the mysterious sympathy
2551 I, VII | speaker answered him more reservedly. “What,” said the first, “
2552 I, XV | of the Baraba, form the reservoir to all the rain-water which
2553 II, V | of a certain aromatic and resinous substance which he had thrown
2554 I, V | and knowing it, is still resolute. Poor girl! Her motive for
2555 I, XI | revolvers, and, advancing resolutely towards the bear, had fired
2556 I, X | should the clouds not soon resolve into rain, the fog would
2557 II, I | submit to the common lot, resolving to protest later, and obtain
2558 I, XVII| out of Kolyvan. His last resource was to set out across the
2559 I, XVII| after quietly depositing a respectable pile of roubles on the shelf,
2560 I, I | General, having made a sign of respectful assent, bowing low, mingled
2561 I, VII | permission to state our respective situations.”~“State away.”~“
2562 II, V | midst of fireworks. In some respects, this performance recalled
2563 II, IX | to him!” Michael made no response.~“Michael,” continued Nadia, “
2564 I, XII | than ever the weight of his responsibility.~While such were the thoughts
2565 I, VIII| Michael Strogoff to the restaurant. She ate little, and as
2566 I, V | had been obliged to find a resting-place in the open air. He therefore
2567 I, III | country, ravaged by some restless successors of Schamyl; then
2568 I, XII | either,” replied Michael, restraining himself with difficulty.~
2569 I, I | Their journals did not restrict them with regard to money—
2570 I, V | been foreseen, they were restricted to their barracks.~Moreover,
2571 I, IV | should be led to take certain restrictive measures, especially in
2572 II, VIII| but by giving him frequent rests— every ten miles, for instance—
2573 I, VI | strange coincidence which resulted from the proclamation. The
2574 II, XV | by the Czar’s troops, who retook in succession all the conquered
2575 I, V | knew that he could easily retrace his steps.~Having strolled
2576 II, III | Siberian calmly.~“Do you retract what you said to me when,
2577 II, II | Tomsk, where events were to reunite the principal personages
2578 II, XIII| in which his plans were revealed, I should not have got off
2579 II, XI | alarming their companions by revealing to them this new danger.~
2580 I, IX | attention to a peal of thunder reverberating among the rocks, he merely
2581 I, XIV | anguish which agitated the revered countenance of his mother.
2582 II, VIII| speaking, now fell into long reveries from which Nadia found it
2583 I, II | since that time, has he not revisited Siberia?”~“Yes, sire; but
2584 I, XIV | but the fresh air quickly revived him. He then felt the wound
2585 I, XI | taken one of Michael’s revolvers, and, advancing resolutely
2586 I, VII | her thanks.~The Volga, the Rha of the ancients, the largest
2587 I, IV | Nijni-Novgorod, Tchemigoff, Riazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Jaroslavl,
2588 I, XII | not been for this white riband, which stretched away as
2589 II, VIII| large supply of plain boiled rice. This increase was very
2590 I, II | make the Siberian soil far richer below than above its surface.
2591 II, VI | the door wide open. An old rickety wooden bench stood in the
2592 I, XVII| around: He carries weight! he rides a race! ’Tis for a thousand
2593 II, VIII| exchange the horse Michael was riding for one which was blind.
2594 I, I | silently up and down, their rifles carried horizontally on
2595 I, XIII| the clear perception of a right-minded woman, guessed that some
2596 II, XIV | warning of the approaching rigor of the Siberian winter,
2597 I, II | neither be stopped by the rigors of winter nor the heat of
2598 I, XI | and the enormous beast, ripped up by that terrible knife,
2599 II, IX | Tartars’ sport; that he risked his life for me?”~Michael
2600 II, II | The petty questions of rivalry were forever extinguished.
2601 I, VII | It is navigable as far as Rjef, a town in the government
2602 II, XI | hunger and cold had sent roaming through the province. They
2603 II, I | the drums beat, the cannon roared. A huge cloud of dust swept
2604 I, IX | Confound you, you slug! I’ll roast you alive, you tortoise,
2605 I, XII | forty years of age, tall, robust in figure, broad-shouldered,
2606 II, VI | of the young girl, that, rocked by the monotonous movement
2607 II, I | army.~Nothing could be more romantic than this picture, in delineating
2608 I, I | moment the doors of the rooms adjoining the great reception
2609 I, VII | this tree, and it has for roots seventy mouths opening into
2610 I, VII | stuffed into their boots, rose-colored cotton shirts, drawn in
2611 I, IV | Tchemigoff, Riazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Jaroslavl, Bielozersk,
2612 II, VII | any rate, the smile on his rosy face never faded for an
2613 I, XV | leaping the space between the rotten joists; but however fast
2614 I, X | were crossing a bridge of roughly-hewn planks thrown over some
2615 I, X | oppression of the air than the roughness of the roads. Even the bells
2616 I, X | the shafts could no longer rouse them, and they stumbled
2617 II, II | they were free and could rove at their pleasure over the
2618 I, XIII| detachments of Tartars were roving across the steppe, and that
2619 II, XI | in the morning a double row of lights glittered on the
2620 I, XV | sprang forward as if the rowels of a thousand spurs had
2621 I, V | imitating the action of rowing, guided by the stick of
2622 I, XV | own fatigue, he himself rubbed the wounds of the poor animal
2623 II, VII | amusing,” exclaimed Nicholas, rubbing his hands, as they disembarked
2624 II, II | but free from its usual rudeness.~“Two correspondents of
2625 I, II | aided by the chiefs who ruled all the hordes of Central
2626 I, IV | wisdom of many successive rulers.~Be that as it may, Ivan
2627 I, XI | in accordance with the rules of society, when Michael
2628 II, VII | girl had each fruitlessly rummaged these cottages and were
2629 I, IV | both his ears.~In fact, rumor of the rising of the Kirghiz
2630 I, VIII| himself of the truth of these rumors, and enable him to guard
2631 I, IV | and Autocrat of all the Russias of Moscow, Kiev, Wladimir,
2632 I, VII | with thin buckwheat and rye, stretched away to a background
2633 II, V | ground, armed with bare sabers and long pistols, and, as
2634 II, III | make her speak. She was sacrificing her life.~Marfa, seized
2635 II, XII | forty, tall, of a stern and sad countenance. One felt that
2636 I, XVI | trumpets fastened to their saddle-bows were the distinctive signs
2637 I, XIV | horses, picketed but still saddled, were ready to start at
2638 II, III | suspended to the pommels of the saddles, while the former were dragged
2639 I, VII | since that is the best and safest route by which to cross
2640 I, I | was wonderfully shrewd and sagacious. Even while speaking at
2641 I, XVI | than to the well-proved sagacity of his horse.~Just as Michael
2642 II, VII | dreams realized— that of sailing in a cart.”~At the spot
2643 I, VIII| banks lovely. A few white sails enlivened the sparkling
2644 I, II | and the Upper Ishim, Lake Saisang and Lake Aksakal. The greater
2645 II, VII | Why should I receive a salary which I have not earned?”
2646 I, I | thin, but the latter was sallow as are the southern Provencals,
2647 II, XIII| Ogareff gave a military salute, not forgetting that he
2648 II, IV | sound of the big drums, salvoes of artillery and musketry.~
2649 I, IV | tribes, the Mongol, Kalmuck, Samoid, Kamtschatkan, and Aleutian
2650 I, IX | charcoal would be put into the “samovar,” and he would be made quite
2651 I, V | meat—that is to say, of samples of the goods which the owners
2652 I, I | possessed the imperturbable sang froid and the genuine intrepidity
2653 I, VII | bottle, made from the fresh sap of the birch-trees of the
2654 II, IV | agates, emeralds, opals, and sapphires— that her dress seemed to
2655 I, II | space between the rivers Sara Sou, Irtish, and the Upper
2656 II, II | than imposing for a Tartar Sardana-palus, an undisputed sovereign,
2657 I, XIII| their efforts were in vain. “Saryn na kitchou!” shouted the
2658 II, IV | silken gauze, and above the sash lay the “pirahn.” But from
2659 I, XII | to breakfast or dine, she sat at table, but was always
2660 II, III | the spur detached from the Sayanok Mountains, is very sterile.
2661 II, IX | to pass the slopes of the Sayansk Mountains? Neither he nor
2662 II, II | and silver, cross-belt and scabbard glistening with precious
2663 I, IX | are worked here on a large scale. Although Perm, by its situation,
2664 II, V | drew long narrow bands of scarlet silk, on which were braided
2665 II, IV | arrival. Ivan Ogareff— the Scarred Cheek, as he was already
2666 II, VI | scouts of the Emir, once more scattering over the steppes, might
2667 II, V | perfectly hardened to any scenic effect, which our modern
2668 I, XVI | wood, an Usbeck’s horse, scenting him, neighed and began to
2669 I, IV | with two heads, holding a scepter and a globe, surrounded
2670 I, III | some restless successors of Schamyl; then later, in an important
2671 II, I | his girdle untied; the “scheikh-oul-islam,” chief of the Ulemas, representing
2672 I, II | never pardoned an exile, schemes such as those of Ivan Ogareff
2673 I, IV | Lord and Suzerain of the Scherkess princes, of those of the
2674 I, IV | heir of Norway, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn, Dittmarsen, and
2675 I, I | cessation polkas, mazurkas, schottisches, and waltzes from among
2676 I, II | the center of Mussulman science, and ranks among the most
2677 I, I | auditory flaps; but, since scientific men know that human ears
2678 I, IV | languages are spoken. The Sclavonian race predominates, no doubt,
2679 I, IV | charming, was of the purest Sclavonic type— slightly severe, and
2680 I, X | the iemschik, sometimes scolding, sometimes coaxing his poor
2681 II, VI | cry escaped her when the scorching blade passed before her
2682 I, V | troubled himself little on this score, and, but that hunger pressed
2683 II, V | an expression of intense scorn whenever he cast his looks
2684 II, III | what was going to happen. A scornful smile passed over her face.
2685 II, I | of the scouts, who were scouring the steppe. The most eastern
2686 II, VII | any fear of Tartars. Not a scout had appeared on the road
2687 I, XI | indeed got us out of a bad scrape.”~“I have only done, sir,”
2688 II, VIII| moment, as well as from the scraps of conversation he overheard
2689 I, X | fixed by means of pins and screws.~Nadia resumed her place
2690 I, IV | inspectors came forward who scrutinized the travelers and subjected
2691 I, III | apparently satisfied with his scrutiny, motioned to the chief of
2692 I, I | ancient city. Below the sculptured balconies were visible numerous
2693 I, X | tops, as though a gigantic scythe had swept across them. The
2694 I, XV | experienced a nausea like sea-sickness.~Michael Strogoff, whether
2695 I, III | in an envelope, which was sealed with the imperial arms.~
2696 I, IV | constitute all her luggage. Then seating herself with downcast eyes,
2697 I, XI | Englishman, descending from their seats, no longer the hinder one,
2698 I, XV | the future. Therefore he secluded himself, and not caring
2699 I, XIV | lieutenant well capable of seconding his designs in this savage
2700 II, XII | the battle of Tomsk; and secondly, the preparations for the
2701 I, XVII| affair of a moment.~Five seconds later the shell burst outside.
2702 II, XIII| in the greatest possible secrecy, that the Tartars were already
2703 I, III | to turn. All his father’s secrets were known to him. He had
2704 I, V | of “old believer” of the sect of Raskalniks, made the
2705 II, II | pushing forward, if only to secure provisions for the troops.
2706 II, I | is the most efficacious sedative known for the treatment
2707 I, II | my brother, whose life he seeks. This is what I have learned
2708 | seeming
2709 II, I | these tents belonged to the Seides and Khodjas, who are the
2710 I, IV | of the Tauric Chersonese, Seignior of Pskov, Prince of Smolensk,
2711 II, XII | to be allowed to form a select corps. They are not ignorant
2712 II, XI | one must be moved one’s self! I believe there is some
2713 I, IV | to give way or lose his self-command.~Such was the impression
2714 II, V | recalled rather the calm and self-possessed nauch girls of India than
2715 I, XVI | their knapsacks.~Michael’s self-possession had never deserted him,
2716 I, V | the groups of buyers and sellers he discovered that those
2717 I, XV | and still traversing the semi-inundated soil, on the 2nd of August,
2718 II, V | sunk behind the horizon. A semi-obscurity began to envelop the plain.
2719 II, I | with the Emir’s arms.~In a semicircle round the clearing stood
2720 I, I | Through the panes of the vast semicircular bay-windows the light, with
2721 I, IV | Livonia, Courland, and of Semigallia, of Bialystok, Karelia,
2722 II, I | primitive type of the beautiful Semitic races; and Turcomans, with
2723 I, III | name with the words “Byt po semou,” which, signifying “So
2724 I, V | time. However, he never senselessly murmured. Besides, the fact
2725 I, XIV | bushes.~When he recovered his senses, he found himself in the
2726 I, IX | instantly understood by the sensitive animals! “Go on, you wretched
2727 I, XII | country, either together or separately, according as their news-hunting
2728 II, V | with the Tartar tomans and sequins, rained also Russian ducats
2729 II, X | cowl, and the clothes of serge.~As to the papa, or priest,
2730 I, XII | girl?” he replied, quite seriously.~“Why, Nicholas Korpanoff’
2731 II, V | colored fire, which wound, serpent-like, above the dancers, whose
2732 II, XIV | man, I know him! He is a servant of my brother! He is the
2733 II, I | added the Jews, who acted as servants, their robes confined with
2734 I, IX | animals! The string which served as reins would have had
2735 I, III | possessed one of the most serviceable qualities in Russia—one
2736 II, III | it; for there is nothing servile in this act of respect,
2737 I, X | sufficient to light the way, but serving as warning lights to prevent
2738 II, IV | in the dust, in token of servitude. Slavery begins by humiliation.
2739 I, IV | s service, which is the Sesame par excellence. He contented
2740 II, II | towards the west, where he sets.”~“And if I march with the
2741 I, XVI | Yeniseisk? Michael could settle on no line of action until
2742 II, I | who, in the Emir’s absence settles all disputes raised among
2743 II, XV | Europe, and, Wassili Fedor settling down in St. Petersburg,
2744 II, XIII| October, after traveling seventy-nine days.”~The Grand Duke took
2745 II, XII | This Tartar invasion had severely wounded him in his tenderest
2746 I, I | from the manufactories of Sevres.~The guests of the New Palace
2747 I, IX | he have stowed it? Rather shabby in appearance too. He looked
2748 I, XVI | catch him, and seeing a shadowy form moving in the dim light, “
2749 I, IX | a Siberian, and no less shaggy than they; long hair, cut
2750 I, V | foreign theaters, acting Shakespeare, adapted to the taste of
2751 I, XV | weeks were retained by this shallow depression as in a water-tight
2752 II, VIII| companion’s hesitation, without sharing his credulity, and endeavored
2753 I, IV | tallow.”~“That amuses you,” sharply answered the merchant, who
2754 II, XI | became the mark of the Tartar sharpshooters. Several were wounded, although
2755 I, X | hurricane. An avalanche of shattered trunks swept across the
2756 II, I | horse’s tail issuing from a sheaf of red and white sticks
2757 I, XII | drew his saber from its sheath, and Nadia threw herself
2758 I, VIII| to be left alone, when, shedding bitter tears, he was led
2759 I, VI | vans came back from their sheds. Agents and soldiers with
2760 I, XVI | heads the “talpak,” or black sheep-skin cap, and on their feet yellow
2761 I, VIII| The steamer was already sheering off, the gangway had been
2762 I, IV | rivers to cross, but simply sheets of glass, over which the
2763 II, XIV | rattling from the outposts, shells whistling through the air;
2764 II, I | center of a wide clearing, sheltered by a grove of magnificent
2765 I, IX | quite over the occupiers, shelters them from the great heat
2766 II, I | warm season by Siberian shepherds, and their numerous flocks.
2767 I, XVI | armed defensively with a shield, and offensively with a
2768 II, VII | poplars, looking like verdant ships, anchored in the river.
2769 II, XI | they encountered severe shocks or were compelled to make
2770 I, I | the saloons were filled, shone forth with the brilliancy
2771 I, XVII| when he observed flames shooting up among the houses of the
2772 I, V | would not again see their shops and counting-houses for
2773 I, X | protection were in a trice shorn of their tops, as though
2774 II, VIII| region the days were sensibly shortening. Autumn here lasts but a
2775 I, VIII| with Ishim. It is perhaps shorter than the other, but this
2776 I, XVI | baby but a few months old; shortly she would have not even
2777 II, XIII| and exhibiting several shot-holes. A Muscovite cap was on
2778 I, XIII| them to his comrade.~The shout was occasioned by the new
2779 II, VIII| lashing, throwing stones, and shouting, the animal was urged into
2780 II, XI | piece of ice, managed to shove the raft towards the right
2781 I, XIII| embarked also, and they shoved off.~For a few minutes all
2782 II, X | aloud, and the old boatman, shoving away the blocks of ice which
2783 II, IX | increased their misery. A few showers fell, but they did not last.~
2784 I, XIII| the southern horizon, and showing the approach of the Tartar
2785 I, V | the long avenues the bear showmen accompanied their four-footed
2786 II, XIII| the date of that letter shows, I only reached Irkutsk
2787 I, I | surface, was wonderfully shrewd and sagacious. Even while
2788 I, XIII| might be, did not dream of shrinking from this one. Michael proposed
2789 I, I | hours the palace had been shrouded. The attention of those
2790 II, V | be for you!”~Ivan Ogareff shrugged his shoulders.~But Michael
2791 I, XII | postmaster followed him, after shrugging his shoulders and bestowing
2792 II, II | bore it!” murmured Marfa, shuddering.~“Mother, mother,” cried
2793 II, IV | its murders, had perfectly sickened them, and they longed to
2794 I, XIII| with a gesture. The girl sighed and left the room.~Michael
2795 II, V | he held it up before the sightless eyes of the Czar’s courier,
2796 I, XV | part of the journey was signalized by no incident whatever.
2797 II, XIII| and recognized the Czar’s signature, preceded by the decisive
2798 II, XIII| Duke grew calmer, and by a significant gesture he gave Ogareff
2799 I, V | of Ice. As to the exact signification of the words he had heard,
2800 I, III | words “Byt po semou,” which, signifying “So be it,” constitutes
2801 II, IV | fell the “zirdjameh” of silken gauze, and above the sash
2802 I, XII | police-station, the hearty simplicity with which he had called
2803 II, XIII| the members of the council simultaneously started forward. A courier
2804 I, II | and the chief of police sincerely deplored it. What! no banishment
2805 II, V | from the lips of the young singer, she resumed her dance,
2806 II, V | repetition rendered more and more sinister:~“Look while you may”~But
2807 II, XIII| wished to allow them to sink gradually into the minds
2808 I, VII | the gunwale, and nearly sinking under water. A bootless
2809 I, XI | pistol-shot.~“Ah! forward, sirs!” cried he.~“Hullo!” said
2810 II, VI | the bottom of the cart; I sit in front to drive. There
2811 I, V | NIJNI-NOVGOROD, Lower Novgorod, situate at the junction of the Volga
2812 I, XVII| coolness, Alcide wrote: “A six-inch shell has just blown up
2813 II, II | imperturbable coolness, “it is sixpence a number, including postage.”
2814 I, IV | girl appeared to be about sixteen or seventeen years of age.
2815 II, VII | or not, must be left the sixth? At any rate, the smile
2816 II, IV | Tobolsk, situated above the sixtieth parallel; Irkutsk, built
2817 II, X | the raft. He was a man of sixty-five, browned by the sun, and
2818 I, VII | take from between sixty to sixty-two hours.~The steamer was very
2819 II, IV | leave Tomsk without making a sketch of the triumphal entry of
2820 I, IX | Michael Strogoff had already sketched out his programme. A vehicle
2821 I, VIII| proceeding; Harry Blount, sketching different types, or noting
2822 I, XIII| neither their zeal nor their skill-fulness could, under the circumstances,
2823 II, I | enclosure, bathed the wound, and skillfully placed the wet rag on Harry
2824 I, XV | and old men, clad in the skins of beasts, their faces covered
2825 I, IV | Under this pelisse, a short skirt, also dark, fell over a
2826 II, VIII| provinces, this column had skirted the base of the Altai Mountains.
2827 II, III | instant he would have been slain.~But Ogareff, who on being
2828 I, IX | understood the iemschik’s slang perfectly; “eagles, do you
2829 I, XIII| and slowly urged it in a slanting direction towards the right
2830 II, X | sentence of their prayer, the “Slava Bogu,” Glory to God! issued
2831 I, II | or telga; in winter, in a sledge.~An electric telegraph,
2832 I, IV | glance so stern that the sleeper leant on the opposite side,
2833 I, VII | necessary not to tread on the sleepers, who were lying about everywhere.
2834 I, XVII| brushed it round with his sleeve, and, still smiling, disappeared
2835 II, XII | bell-towers, its steeples slender as minarets, its domes like
2836 I, III | clear, frank, firm gaze. The slightly-contracted eyebrows indicated lofty
2837 I, III | well-shaped mouth, with the slightly-projecting lips which denote a generous
2838 I, X | being forced backwards. They slipped, they fell, they got up
2839 I, I | certainly, but—”~“But much less slippery,” added Alcide Jolivet,
2840 I, XIV | listened no longer, and slipping his hand under his garment
2841 II, VII | were now standing, the bank sloped, and was suitable for the
2842 I, IX | snail! Confound you, you slug! I’ll roast you alive, you
2843 I, XVI | and a flintlock musket slung at the saddle-bow. From
2844 II, XI | his touch by his sense of smell, could not be mistaken.
2845 II, XI | through the province. They had smelt out the raft, and would
2846 II, XV | produced, when a workman smelter, after dipping his hand
2847 I, XIV | before him! Trembling, she smiled upon him. She stretched
2848 I, IV | Seignior of Pskov, Prince of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volkynia, Podolia,
2849 I, V | the Caucasus, gauzes from Smyrna and Ispahan. Tiflis armor,
2850 I, IX | effectual than either bridle or snaffle.~And what amiable expressions! “
2851 II, XIII| Irkutsk knew him, no one could snatch off his mask. He resolved
2852 II, VI | driving, fell asleep, and snored with a clearness which showed
2853 I, X | creaking of the axles, the snorting of the horses, and the clattering
2854 II, XI | having passed over the snow-clad mountains of the east, pierced
2855 I, IV | excessive cold, fearfully heavy snow-storms, which sometimes envelop
2856 II, X | fell to zero. The first snows, which would last till summer,
2857 I, X | would be as terrible as the snowstorms which burst forth with such
2858 I, XIII| have disappeared under the snowy sheet spread uniformly over
2859 II, I | sour ewe’s milk, and which, soaked in mare’s milk, forms the
2860 I, IX | freezing in triple woolen socks; I have seen my sleigh horses
2861 I, XV | greatly from the close-cropped sod of the steppe, where feed
2862 I, IV | hair. Her eyes were brown, soft, and expressive of much
2863 I, I | with its gilding already softened by the touch of time, appeared
2864 II, X | which was illuminated by the solar rays, and almost immediately
2865 II, XI | which became gradually soldered together, under the double
2866 I, IV | Half-boots of leather, thickly soled, as if chosen in anticipation
2867 II, III | came for them to make a solemn entry.~Ivan Ogareff left
2868 I, IV | of habits contracted in solitude was clearly manifested in
2869 II, X | Carelia, the convent of Solovetsk, the convent of Troitsa,
2870 | somehow
2871 | someone
2872 II, V | in the distance cries and songs, the varied noises of a
2873 I, XIV | make her speak, this old sorceress!”~
2874 II, XII | the Grand Duke. In several sorties, they had paid with their
2875 I, II | between the rivers Sara Sou, Irtish, and the Upper Ishim,
2876 I, IV | of Bialystok, Karelia, Sougria, Perm, Viatka, Bulgaria,
2877 II, IX | quantity of dried meat and “soukharis,” pieces of bread, which,
2878 I, I | therefore began by cautiously sounding each other.~“Really, my
2879 II, VI | soon fell into a sleep, its soundness proving her complete prostration.
2880 I, I | symptoms of disquietude, the source of which eluded their penetration;
2881 I, XIII| Mountains, it flows from the southeast to the northwest and empties
2882 I, XVII| Lake Baikal provinces in a southeasterly direction.~Michael began
2883 I, XVII| combatants were rapidly moving southwards. It appeared that Kolyvan
2884 I, VII | and herds of pigs. Fields, sown with thin buckwheat and
2885 I, V | dollars.~On one of the open spaces between the quarters of
2886 II, V | Bohemia, Egypt, Italy, and Spain. They were enlivened by
2887 I, VIII| cloaks, which covered their spangled dresses. These dresses,
2888 I, VI | drowning man who clutches at a spar, she was about to ask his
2889 I, III | in doubt and indecision. Sparing of gestures as of words,
2890 II, IV | thousands of diamonds which sparkled on her neck, arms, hands,
2891 I, VIII| white sails enlivened the sparkling water. The horizon was closed
2892 I, XV | at midday at the town of Spaskoe, and at two o’clock he halted
2893 II, III | performed under the lashes and spear-points of the soldiers, proved
2894 II, I | the Tadjiks were mingled specimens of different races who either
2895 I, XII | far behind, looking only a speck on the horizon of the steppe.~
2896 I, V | would become first less speedy and then less safe.~Nijni-Novgorod,
2897 I, V | him an age. How was he to spend the morning unless in wandering,
2898 I, V | malachite, lapis-lazuli, spices, perfumes, medicinal herbs,
2899 I, I | on the shoulder, and the spikes of their helmets glittering
2900 I, I | countless towers, domes, and spires which adorn the ancient
2901 II, VIII| not recovered his usual spirits. The ill-omen had affected
2902 I, IX | the jolting rough roads. A splash-board protects the travelers from
2903 I, VII | waves caused by the steamer splashed on the banks, covered with
2904 II, XIV | hunter, the sword flew in splinters, and the wretch, stabbed
2905 II, XI | of Central Asia is like a sponge impregnated with liquid
2906 II, IX | when you were the Tartars’ sport; that he risked his life
2907 I, I | chat of the day. They were sportsmen, after all, hunting on the
2908 I, XV | and hands covered with red spots. The atmosphere there seems
2909 I, XVII| the right. ‘John Gilpin’s spouse said to her dear, Though
2910 I, XV | impenetrable undergrowth, sprinkled everywhere with a thousand
2911 I, II | this part of the world have sprung from it,” includes also
2912 II, VII | kibitka no longer drifted, but spun rapidly round, inclining
2913 II, III | the Obi to the base of the spur detached from the Sayanok
2914 II, V | aerial illumination.~Then a squadron of Tartars, in their brilliant
2915 I, XIV | Omsk, in its streets and squares, the Tartar soldiers swarmed
2916 II, XIV | splinters, and the wretch, stabbed to the heart, fell lifeless
2917 II, I | resided the chief of the stables, who has the right to follow
2918 I, XV | In other localities the stagnant waters through which the
2919 I, VI | awnings in front of the stalls were folded up; the theaters
2920 II, III | Ivan Ogareff, when he had stanched the blood which was trickling
2921 I, X | The tarantass was at a standstill at a turning of the road,
2922 II, V | bright eyes as smoke over a starry sky. Some of these Persians
2923 II, XI | shots on the right bank startled the unhappy fugitives. A
2924 I, IX | only urging them on by startling cracks of his whip. But
2925 I, XI | wheels, that is when it starts; with two wheels, when it
2926 II, XIII| than yield!~These false statements would have done more harm
2927 I, V | first to the office of the steam-packet company, and there made
2928 I, VII | landscape.~The Caucasus had been steaming on for almost two hours,
2929 I, XVII| houses of the town, and the steeple of a church fell in the
2930 I, I | Enthusiastic jockeys in this steeplechase, this hunt after information,
2931 II, XI | had become necessary to steer more carefully among the
2932 I, VII | sunset and dawn, and left the steersman light enough to guide his
2933 II, II | the cruel descendants of Stephan Razine, the celebrated pirate
2934 I, XIV | good woman,” he replied, stepping back.~“Michael!” again cried
2935 I, I | have only one, immutably stereotyped on his brain.~The strong
2936 II, III | Sayanok Mountains, is very sterile. Only a few stunted and
2937 II, I | a sheaf of red and white sticks artistically interlaced,
2938 I, IX | growing chill, my limbs stiffening, my feet freezing in triple
2939 I, VII | the Englishman, who bowed stiffly. The governor’s proclamation
2940 I, XI | only increased his usual stiffness.~At that moment the iemschik,
2941 I, X | just as if Nature were half stifled, and could no longer breathe;
2942 I, IX | and journey by stages, stimulating the zeal of the postillions
2943 I, XV | unable to escape from the sting of the two-winged insects
2944 I, XV | made to escape from the stings of his persecutors. Having
2945 I, IX | postillions the “crow” is the stingy or poor traveler, who at
2946 II, XIV | During the day, an unusual stir was going on in the Angara
2947 II, XIV | him. How, almost without stirring, did he always face the
2948 II, VII | taken off their shoes and stockings; but, thanks to the bottles,
2949 II, II | bore her hard fate. This stoicism of the old woman under the
2950 II, VIII| hours a day, perched on a stool, working the manip-ulator!”~
2951 I, XV | his horse, and the sudden stops and bounds which he made
2952 II, XII | at this time very full. Stores of every kind had been collected
2953 II, XII | some of which have several stories, the numerous equipages
2954 I, IV | Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn, Dittmarsen, and Oldenburg.”
2955 I, IX | the great heat and violent storms of the summer. The tarantass
2956 II, VIII| travelers. It was neither stormy nor rainy. The health of
2957 I, XIII| without accident. The two stout boatmen, stimulated moreover
2958 II, VI | the room, near the high stove which is to be found in
2959 I, IX | the world could he have stowed it? Rather shabby in appearance
2960 I, XI | iemschik prudently retreated, a straight-out blow of the fist, in true
2961 II, XI | tight set, his ear on the strain, did not utter a word. Never
2962 I, II | Sea of Kara to Behring’s Straits. It is divided into several
2963 II, XI | motionless, as though it had been stranded.~At this spot the Angara
2964 II, II | scene of the affront so strangely borne by her companion at
2965 I, XVII| Jolivet would have liked to strangle the honorable correspondent
2966 I, V | finished his breakfast, strapped up his bag, had his podorojna
2967 II, XII | thought of obtaining by stratagem what he could not gain by
2968 I, XIV | he delighted in deceptive strategy and ambuscades, stopping
2969 I, XI | the defile. When the first streaks of daybreak appeared the
2970 I, VIII| the gold~In my raven locks streaming~Rich coral around~My graceful
2971 I, XVI | road, bordered by pools and streams, tributaries of the Obi.
2972 I, II | Irkutsk, Verkne-Nertschink, Strelink, Albazine, Blagowstenks,
2973 II, V | with his foot, trying to stretch out his hand to guide himself,
2974 II, XII | summed up in a single word— strife—he had striven and suffered.
2975 II, VII | observed Michael. “Not a sound strikes my ear.”~“And I cannot see
2976 I, XIV | Hence, therefore, the very stringent instructions which had been
2977 II, XI | only held on by a narrow strip.~“Come,” said Nadia. And
2978 I, III | that was nothing; but after stripping it he dragged the gigantic
2979 II, XII | single word— strife—he had striven and suffered. His features
2980 I, XI | simply.~Meanwhile Strogoff strode rapidly on. If he was in
2981 II, VIII| Nadia found two of those strong-bladed knives used by Siberian
2982 I, I | for dress, his contrasting strongly with the gorgeous costumes
2983 I, XII | broad-shouldered, with a strongly-set head, and thick mus-taches
2984 II, IV | profusion of jewels— gold beads strung on silver threads, chaplets
2985 I, II | rather too far, though the stubbornness of his ideas was at least
2986 II, XIII| his movements, began to study Irkutsk, the state of its
2987 I, V | A goose filled with sour stuffing swimming in thick cream,
2988 I, XVI | every instant that he would stumble never to rise again.~It
2989 I, XV | Michael Strogoff’s horse, stung by these venomous insects,
2990 II, III | very sterile. Only a few stunted and burnt-up shrubs here
2991 I, XVII| looked on with a sort of stupefaction.~“Good,” said the clerk.
2992 II, I | Blount candidly.~“Nonsense, stupid! All English are generous.”~“
2993 II, X | Nadia remained in a sort of stupor, and Michael watched beside
2994 II, V | contrast, their dances of styles so different. The instruments
2995 I, XIII| hordes reduced to absolute submission, they had been abandoned,
2996 II, XIII| points, so as to profit subsequently by his observations, in
2997 I, V | was suddenly raised, which subsided by degrees, and finally
2998 II, XIV | right bank, between the suburb of Poshkavsk and the town.
2999 II, VIII| Copenhagen. However, winter succeeds summer almost unexpectedly.
3000 I, III | ravaged by some restless successors of Schamyl; then later,
3001 II, XIII| According to him, the expected succors would be insufficient, if
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