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"Now," the president went on, "you are captured in the room of Akim Soushiloff and Petroff Stepanoff, who were both beyond doubt engaged in the plot at the Winter Palace, with two other equally guilty conspirators, and were doubtless deliberating on some fresh atrocity when interrupted by the agents of the police.
If I don't return at all, it won't matter what is said or done, but I should count on you, Andre, explaining that I did not desert." "But," returned Andre, "if you merely go to warn and save your friends, I think the General won't think much of your spying." "You do me injustice, lad," said Petroff quietly. "I shall enter the enemy's lines as a real spy.
As for Ali Bobo, strong though he was, he felt himself to be a perfect baby in the grasp of the scout. The two men submitted at once, and while Petroff ordered them in a low tone to keep silence, enforcing the order with the touch of a revolver's muzzle, the sergeant quickly bound their arms behind them.
Colia and Kostia were about to make this purchase for their friend when chance brought the hedgehog to their notice, and they had succumbed to the temptation of buying it. They were now taking Petroff the hedgehog and hatchet which they had bought with his money, instead of Schiosser's History. But Aglaya so entreated them that at last they consented to sell her the hedgehog.
"Why, because, Nick, this is the cottage of the very blacksmith about whom I have been speaking, and I wanted to give you a surprise by introducing him to you." "His name?" asked Nicholas quickly. "Dobri Petroff." "The very man. How strange! You have already given me a surprise, Jeff, and will now add a pleasure and a service by introducing me to him, and, perhaps, by using your powers of suasion.
The scout turned to the prisoner, who was sitting on the ground with eyes dilated to the uttermost, and mouth wide open. He sat perfectly speechless. There was just light enough to make darkness visible. Petroff looked close in to the face of the man whom he had been about to stalk. "Lancey!" he exclaimed. "Dobri Peterhuff," gasped the other.
But Michaelovich is a terrible loss, he was always daring and full of expedients." "They will get nothing from him," Petroff said. "Not they," she agreed. "When do they ever get anything out of us?
"Come, scout," said the corporal, slapping Petroff heartily on the shoulder, "don't be down-hearted, man. That pretty little sweetheart you left behind you will never forsake such a strapping fellow as you; she will wait till you return crowned with laurels."
His name is Godfrey Bullen." There was general silence as Akim spoke, and an evident curiosity as to the stranger their comrade had introduced. The host, who had risen to his feet, grasped Godfrey's hand warmly. "I am indeed glad to meet you, Godfrey Bullen," he said. "My friends, greet with me the English friend of Akim and Petroff."
He pushed Petroff rudely out of his way, and claimed the entire attention of the shopman, which was at once and humbly accorded. A fine expression of fierce contempt flashed across Petroff's countenance; but to my surprise, he at once drew aside. When the Turk was served and had gone out, the shopman turned to me. "After Petroff," I said, bowing towards the man.
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