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"You may presuppose a knowledge of what came before," interrupted Mrs. Borisoff, with a friendly nod. "I lived for several months with Korolevitch, on his estate near Poltava. We used to talk heavens! how we talked! Sometimes eight hours at a stretch. I learnt a great deal. Then I wandered up and down Russia, still learning." "Writing, too?" "The time hadn't come for writing.
It was announced everywhere that the one who could jump through the circles, reach the window and exchange golden rings with the Tsarevna Baktriana, that man would be the lucky one, notwithstanding his rank tsar or free kosack, king or warrior, tsarevitch, korolevitch, or fellow without any kinfolk or country. The great day arrived.
They conversed for a couple of hours, at first amusing themselves with the rhetoric and arguments of the red-necked man. Korolevitch was a devoted student of poetry, and discovered not without surprise the Englishman's familiarity with that branch of Russian literature. He heard with great interest the few words Otway let fall about his father, who had known so many Russian exiles.
Tell me, please; is the article in the Vyestnik your own Russian?" "Not entirely. I have a friend named Korolevitch, who went through it for me." "Korolevitch? I seem to know that name. Is he, by chance, connected with some religious movement, some heresy?" "I was going to say I am sorry he is; yet I can't be sorry for what honours the man.
How abhorred by him must be the name of Otway! And could it be less hateful to his daughter, to Irene? The days passed. A pleasant surprise broke the monotony of work and worry when, one afternoon, the office-boy handed in a card bearing the name Korolevitch.
Moujik, a peasant: his duties are those of a farm laborer, yet this phrase would not be a fair translation. This word, which is rendered "tiller of the soil," has no exact equivalent in English. Korolevitch, from korol: king. The endings evitch and evna show descent, korolevitch meaning son of a king; korolevna meaning daughter of a king. Dutch trumpet, i.e., an imported trumpet.
The Russian said that his name was Korolevitch; that he had an estate in the Government of Poltava, where he busied himself with farming, but that for two or three months of each year he travelled. Last winter he had spent in the United States; he was now visiting the great English seaports, merely for the interest of the thing.
"I am going to drink a silent health that of my friend Korolevitch. To him I owe everything." "I don't believe that, but I will drink it too I was speaking of him to Miss Derwent. She wants to know all about the Dukhobortsi. Instruct her, afterwards, if you get a chance. Do you think her altered?" "No yes!" "By the bye, how long is it really since you first knew her?"
The old man was frightened and knelt before his son, but his Ivan remained the same good son as before, took his father lovingly into his arms, and together they wept over their sorrow. Several days passed by and the old father felt courage to ask his son, the korolevitch: "Tell me, my son, how was it that thou didst not perish in the boat?" Ivan Korolevitch laughed gayly.
He sits within his palace and his speech is always the same: 'I am a great king and I have a most beautiful daughter, the princess Helena. There is no one in the universe more beautiful and more wise than she; there is no bridegroom worthy of her in any place under the bright sun, no tsar, no king, no tsarevitch, no korolevitch.
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