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The droshky jumped up and down over the hard roots of the ancient oaks and limes, which were continually intersected by deep ruts the tracks of cart wheels; my horse began to stumble. A violent wind suddenly began to roar overhead; the trees blustered; big drops of rain fell with slow tap and splash on the leaves; there came a flash of lightning and a clap of thunder. The rain fell in torrents.
She is sitting in a droshky outside." "If you wish," growled Rasputin. "But why all this mystery? I have much to do. I am due at Countess Ignatieff's and am already late." "Remain patient, I beg of you, Father," urged the German suavely. "I am acting upon instructions from Number Seventy."
It was unusual for them to be in such low spirits during such a feast, with so much vodki. Somehow the drink tonight did not seem to have its usual exhilarating effect. "Stop howling, you dogs!" ... said the Captain to the singers, raising his head from the ground to listen. "Some one is passing ... in a droshky...."
Either you come with me in the droshky in that case wait here, and don't take another step, for if we go another twenty steps we must be seen by Mavriky Nikolaevitch." "Mavriky Nikolaevitch! Where? Where?" "Well, if you want to go with him, I'll take you a little farther, if you like, and show you where he sits, but I don't care to go up to him just now. No, thank you." "He is waiting for me.
The slight rattle of a racing droshky made Rudin raise his head. Lezhnyov was driving to meet him with his invariable trotting pony. Rudin bowed to him without speaking, and as though struck with a sudden thought, turned out of the road and walked quickly in the direction of Darya Mihailovna's house.
I greeted him, and surreptitiously handed him the little packet, for which he thanked me and disappeared on to the platform. My curiosity being aroused I waited until after the departure of the train, when I watched the mysterious young man return from the platform, hurry out of the station, and jump into a droshky and drive off.
Tell them I'm coming soon. 'Yes, sir, answered Timofeitch, with a sigh. As he went out of the house, he pulled his cap down on his head with both hands, clambered into a wretched-looking racing droshky, and went off at a trot, but not in the direction of the town.
This announcement was followed twenty-four hours later by a story in Pravda proving conclusively that Sally's Cloverdale Marathon III was a direct descendant of Nikita's Mujik Droshky V, a prize Guernsey bull produced in the barns of the Sopolov People's Collective twenty-six years ago.
Petersburg my first duty was to take breakfast, a bath, and a change of clothes at a hotel, and then, to drive to the banker's for letters from home. I had not seen an American for five months; as I alighted from my droshky, a well-dressed individual looked at me, and not to be outdone I returned his glance. Our eyes peered over two fur collars that exposed very little of our faces.
For a long time the lieutenant gazed out of window at the clouds of dust that rolled after his cousin's droshky, stretched, yawned, and went to his own room. A quarter of an hour later he was sound asleep. At six o'clock he was waked up and summoned to dinner. "How nice this is of Alexey!" his cousin's wife greeted him in the dining-room. "He keeps us waiting for dinner."
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