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It was like the rolling away of an immense weight, and immediately she seemed to float upwards, upwards, like a soaring bird. Kieff remained by her side, but his presence did not trouble her. She was possessed by an ecstasy so marvellous that she had no room for any other emotion; She was as one borne on wings, ascending, ever ascending, through an atmosphere of transcendent gold.
The beautiful services in the cathedral, the stately monks, the picturesque pilgrims, with their gentle manners, ingenuous questions, and simple tales of their journeys and beliefs, furnished us with abundant interest in the cheerful sunlight aboveground. Next to the Catacombs Monastery, the other most famous and interesting sight of Kieff is the Cathedral of St. Sophia.
This fight for Guy's soul she had seen it coming. She realized it as a hand to hand fight with Kieff. But she would win. She was bound to win. So she told herself. No power of evil could possibly triumph ultimately, and she knew that deep in his inmost heart Guy acknowledged this. However wild and reckless his words, he did not really expect to see her waver.
The first detachments with the generalissimo of the army, General Diderichs, at the head arrived in Vladivostok at the end of April, 1918. But the other detachments were constantly held up by the Bolsheviks and had great trouble in passing through. They moved from Kieff via Kursk, Tambov, Penza and Samara.
Someone was knocking violently, almost battering, at the door that led into the passage. Her heart gave a wild leap within her. Somehow she knew not wherefore her thoughts went to Kieff. She had a curiously strong feeling that he was, if not actually at the door, not far away.
"As was to be expected, Trotski replied to my question, whether he admitted that the Ukrainians should treat with us alone on questions dealing with their frontiers, with an emphatic denial. I then, after some exchange of words, proposed that the sitting be adjourned, and a plenary sitting convened, in order that the matter might be dealt with by the Kieff and Petersburg parties together.
Furthermore, the fortresses also acted as a barrier, protecting the approaches to Kieff, enabling the undisturbed concentration of an army in that protected zone while the enemy would be busily occupied in battering his way through the fortress triangle. The latter were still more strengthened by the Rivers Ikwa and Styr, which flow to the southwest and north of them.
"It doesn't matter," she managed to say, though her voice was barely audible. He opened his eyes a little wider. "Are you crying, I say? What's the matter? What, darling? You're not crying for me? Eh? I shall get over it. I always come up again. Ask Kelly! Ask Kieff!" "Yes, you always come up again," Kieff said, in his brief, mechanical voice.
In the Tsardom the task was especially easy owing largely to the advantages offered to Teutonic immigrants from the days of yore, to the German-speaking inhabitants of the Baltic provinces, to the proselytizing German schools which flourish in Petrograd, Moscow, Odessa, Kieff, Saratoff, Simbirsk, Tiflis, Warsaw and other centres, to German colonies scattered over Russia and to religious sects.
She started up, facing him, a sudden sharp misgiving at her heart. "Burke! You! Where is Dr. Kieff?" He uttered a grim, exultant sound that made her quiver. "He is on his way back to Ritzen or Brennerstadt. He didn't mention which." "Ah!" Her hands were tightly clasped upon her breast. "What what have you done to him?" she panted. Burke had risen to his feet.
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