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What of Semyonov...? "Rat," I said, "this afternoon I am going out!" "Very well, Barin," he said, "I, too, have an engagement." In the afternoon I crept out like an old sick man. I felt strangely shy and nervous. When I reached the corner of Ekateringofsky Canal and the English Prospect I decided not to go in and see the Markovitches. For one thing I shrank from the thought of their compassion.
I was searching for him among the wreckage, fool that I was, till I heard your excellency shout; and then I ran we all ran and those miscreants fled, all who could. We got five and " he grinned ferociously "well, they will do no more harm in this world! But it is not well for the barin to talk much yet; also it is not wise."
We earn our living on the road, my comrade and I eh, Bradjaga?" With that, he clapped Kaya on the shoulder, showing his white teeth and laughing: "No baggage, Bárin, no no, only this and that!" He pointed to the knapsack swung from his shoulder and the violin in his hand. "What does this ragamuffin do?" demanded the official, looking narrowly at Kaya, "He is fair for a gypsey."
"Where are the children?" said André Olsheffsky, brokenly. "Perhaps they're dead, too?" "Oh, the children are all well, Barin! They are at Volodia Ivanovitch's." "Drive me there, then," said Mr. Olsheffsky; and the sledge dashed off with a peal of its bells, and drew up with a flourish in front of Volodia's doorway.
Look here, brother-in-law. Pay her, will you, for I have not a kopeck left." "How much?" inquired the brother-in-law. "What, sir? Eighty kopecks, if you please," replied the old woman. "A lie! Give her half a rouble. That will be quite enough." "No, it will NOT, barin," protested the old woman. However, she took the money gratefully, and even ran to the door to open it for the gentlemen.
Thither on mules from Tortosa came El Safy, leading the Abbot Milo and Jehane, and brought them easily through all the defiles to that castle on a spur which is called Mont-Ferrand, but in the language of the Saracens, Bārin. From that height they looked down upon the domes and gardens of Musse, and knew that half their work was done.
Late on the afternoon of Nina's birthday, when I was on the point of setting out for the English Prospect, the Rat appeared. I had not seen him for several weeks; but there he was, stepping suddenly out of the shadows of my room, dirty and disreputable and cheerful. He had been, I perceived, drinking furniture polish. "Good-evening, Barin." "Good-evening," I said sternly.
I been sittin' out thar in the woods all night thinkin' " "About being made foreman?" questioned Tom. "Yes. An' 'bout that other thing. When the fellers laughed an' ye said I was 'barin' my soul, I didn't have no such thing. But Cap'n! Out thar in the woods, an' God Almighty lookin' down and seein' me thar in the moonlight, I found one. Mebby ye told him to give it to me, but I got it.
Petersburg, but the house was sold out. Bosh I tell you! I wouldn't cross the street to hear a virtuoso like that!" The gypsey gave a queer sound like a chuckle: "He does not play as you do, of course, Bárin!" "I!" cried Petrokoff. He twirled his mustache fiercely. "The Russians are like children, they run after every new plaything. The Pole is a new plaything, a toy bah!
I know that I woke struggling to keep him with me, crying out that he was not to leave me, that that way was danger.... I woke to find my room flooded with sunshine, and my old woman looking at me with disapproval. "Wake up, Barin," she was saying, "it's three o'clock." "Three o'clock?" I muttered, trying to pull myself together. "Three in the afternoon... I have some tea for you."
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