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Even Korzh could not contain himself, as he gazed at the young people, from getting gay in his old age. Bandura in hand, alternately puffing at his pipe and singing, a brandy-glass upon his head, the greybeard began the national dance amid loud shouts from the merry-makers. What will not people devise in merry mood! They even began to disguise their faces. They did not look like human beings.
Korzh was petrified, dropped his jaw, and clutched at the door for support. Those unlucky kisses completely stunned him.
But Korzh would never have suspected anything out of the way, only one day it is evident that none but the Evil One could have inspired him Petrus took it into his head to kiss the Cossack maiden’s rosy lips with all his heart in the passage, without first looking well about him; and that same Evil One may the son of a dog dream of the holy cross! caused the old greybeard, like a fool, to open the cottage-door at that same moment.
Hanging the whip again upon the wall, he led him quietly from the house. “If you ever show yourself in my cottage again, or even under the windows, look out, Petró! by Heaven, your black moustache will disappear; and your black locks, though wound twice about your ears, will take leave of your pate, or my name is not Terentii Korzh.” So saying, he gave him a little taste of his fist in the nape of his neck, so that all grew dark before Petrus, and he flew headlong.
Even Korzh as he gazed at the young people could not help getting gay in his old age. Guitar in hand, alternately puffing at his pipe and singing, a brandy-glass upon his head, the greybeard began the national dance amid loud shouts from the merry-makers. What will not people devise in merry mood? They even began to disguise their faces till they did not look like human beings.
Then only, as if in a dream, he recollected that he had been seeking some treasure, that something had frightened him in the woods.... But at what price he had obtained it, and how, he could by no means understand. Korzh saw the sacks, and was mollified. “Such a Petrus, quite unheard of! yes, and did I not love him?
But Korzh would never have suspected anything out of the way, only one day it is evident that none but the Evil One could have inspired him Petrus took it into his head to kiss the Cossack maiden's rosy lips with all his heart in the passage, without first looking well about him; and that same Evil One may the son of a dog dream of the holy cross! caused the old graybeard, like a fool, to open the cottage-door at that same moment.
Korzh was petrified, dropped his jaw, and clutched at the door for support. Those unlucky kisses had completely stunned him. It surprised him more than the blow of a pestle on the wall, with which, in our days, the muzhik generally drives out his intoxication for lack of fuses and powder.
But that was not the worst of it. Korzh had a daughter, such a beauty as I think you can hardly have chanced to see.
Korzh was petrified, dropped his jaw, and clutched at the door for support. Those unlucky kisses had completely stunned him. It surprised him more than the blow of a pestle on the wall, with which, in our days, the muzhik generally drives out his intoxication for lack of fusees and powder. Elder. Upper garment in Little Russia.
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