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He went up to the mare's head, took her by the bit, and pulled her up. We set off. I held on to the cushion of the droshky, which rocked 'like a boat on the sea, and called my dog. My poor mare splashed with difficulty through the mud, slipped and stumbled; the forester hovered before the shafts to right and to left like a ghost. We drove rather a long while; at last my guide stopped.
It was in the spirit of devotion and service that he called a droshky, and fared out to the crooked streets of the Jewish quarter to do his errand. It was a fine soft night, with a clear sky of stars, and Monsieur Vaucher enjoyed the drive.
But suppose they were to make a complaint... if... No, better try to get a passport somehow. This worthy person did not live near; Insarov was a whole hour in getting to him in a very sorry droshky, and, to make matters worse, he did not find him at home; and on his way back got soaked to the skin by a sudden downpour of rain.
There was a clatter and jingle on the road behind us, and an instant later a droshky passed, at a comparatively slow pace, the one horse seemed almost spent, preceded and followed by a small escort of cavalry.
They carry a tin plate between their shoulders with a number on it; never drive with blinkers, and rarely use a whip, but having a rein in each hand, urge on their little horses at great speed over the uneven pavement without once coming down, so far as we observed. There are other carriages like our English cabs drawn by one or two horses, but the droshky is in most general use.
David fell silent. The Jew, too, had grown to kiss the rod. But it was not even a nobleman's rod; any moujik, any hooligan, could wield it. But, thank Heaven, this breed of Jew was passing away killed by the pogroms. It was their one virtue. At the station he hired a ramshackle droshky, and told his Jewish driver to take him to the best inn.
Well, so one fine day, as the saying is, I ordered my team of three horses to be harnessed abreast to the droshky in the centre I'd a first-rate goer, an extraordinary Asiatic horse, for that reason called Lampurdos I dressed myself in my best, and went off to Matrona's mistress.
Mardary Apollonitch's interest in his estate is of a rather superficial description; not to be behind the age, he ordered a threshing-machine from Butenop's in Moscow, locked it up in a barn, and then felt his mind at rest on the subject. Sometimes on a fine summer day he would have out his racing droshky, and drive off to his fields, to look at the crops and gather corn-flowers.
A "droshky" is a low, four-wheeled, open carriage, plying for hire. The word is Russian. Attended by the cavass of the Swedish Embassy, old Ali, I drove down to the quay on a fresh, sunny October morning, loaded all my boxes on board a caique, and was rowed by four men out to the Bosporus between anchored sailing vessels, steamers, and yachts.
But first I must bring this corpse to his senses. Bazarov shook Piotr by the collar, and sent him for a droshky. 'Mind you don't frighten my brother, Pavel Petrovitch said to him; 'don't dream of informing him. Piotr flew off; and while he was running for a droshky, the two antagonists sat on the ground and said nothing.
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