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I suppose our host was a good deal better off than most of them. Petroff said that he was the son of a manufacturer down in the south. I wonder what he meant when he laughed in that quiet way of his when I said I wondered that as his father was well off he should take an appointment at such an out-of-the-way place as Tobolsk.
Petroff admitted with ready grace that I was right, and thrusting his fingers through the wild clustering curls of his black hair, as if to let the air circle more freely about his head, he turned sharp round, and pointed to a cottage which stood at a short distance from the high-road, at the entrance to the village. "That is our home, sir; we shall feel happy if you will enter it."
Like Petroff, Gapon seeks to defend the Tsar, and he falls into Petroff's strategical mistake of pretending that the Tsar knows nothing of the sufferings of his people. From that admission to the resolution that the Tsar must somehow be informed personally and directly, by some means outside of the regular official channel, there is but one step, and that step is quickly taken.
Here we were placed under escort, and, with some others, were exchanged and set free. Immediately I hired a conveyance and proceeded to the Russian rear, where I obtained a horse, and, leaving Ivanka in charge of Lancey at an inn, hastened to headquarters to make inquiries about Nicholas and Petroff.
I had a fine voice yes, if it had not been for mother it would have been all right, even pleasant and interesting. Here I made the acquaintance of the famous Petroff he afterwards killed himself with a piece of glass at the fortress and also of others. But I was not yet a revolutionary. I also became acquainted with my neighbours in the cells next to mine.
When Petroff told me that you had fallen dead, as he said, on deck, I ran up in defiance of your orders and saw the battleship just going down. The shells had blown the middle of her right out, and a cloud of steam and smoke and fire was rising out of a great ragged space where the funnels had been. Before I got you down here she broke right in two and went down."
In the country near Orel, during the summer, the general and his daughter lived on neighborly terms near the family of old Petroff, one of the richest fur merchants in Russia. Old Petroff had a daughter, Matrena, who was magnificent to see, like a beautiful field-flower.
Such a mistake as that makes an old man of one before one's time." Silan Petroff spoke with decision, but quietly, while, an expression of inflexible determination flashed from his face, giving him the appearance of a man who was ready then and there to fight and struggle for the right to love. "Well, it's all right now; don't trouble yourself any more.
At that moment the scout's eyes were opened still wider with amazement, for the unfortunate Sergeant Gotsuchakoff who, as I have said, had been laid down a few yards from him, and whom he had almost forgotten began to recover consciousness and growled something in an undertone about its being "far too soon to turn out." Petroff recognised the well-known growl of the sergeant.
Then, taking the little one's hand, he pushed through the crowd and left the ring. I observed that the young woman also rose and went with them. Feeling interested in these people. Lancey and I followed, and overtook them before they had quitted the field. I said in Russian: "Good-day, Petroff; you overthrew that fellow with greater ease than I had expected."
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