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If we accept the naive suggestion of the Russian author, "Vladimir," the occupation of Kiao-chau by Germany "forced" Russia "to claim some equivalent compensation." Or possibly the cession of Port Arthur was another of the items in Li Hung Chang's bargain with Russia.
The approach of Yermolai with Vladimir and the man with the strange nickname, Sutchok, broke in on my meditations. Barelegged, ragged and dishevelled, Sutchok looked like a discharged stray house-serf of sixty years old. 'Have you a boat? I asked him. 'I have a boat, he answered in a hoarse, cracked voice; 'but it's a very poor one. 'How so?
"My dear Ivan," said he, "you appear to be waiting for someone." "I heard you coming," answered he, "and I took you for Vladimir Paulitch. It was the sound of your step which deceived me; you haven't such a measured step generally." "You are a keen observer," replied Gilbert smiling; "but who, I pray, is this Vladimir Paulitch?" "He is a physician from my country.
A boy whose fiddle has made already enough to set you up in such a fine business, his brother Boris in such a fine college, automobiles style and now because Vladimir Rimsky, three times his age, gets signed up with Elsass for a few thousand more a year, right away the family gets a long face " "Ma, please; Isadore didn't mean it that way!" "Pa's knocking, ma; shall I let him in?"
He assumed such airs of superiority and of power as secured for him the title of The Superb. He caused himself to be crowned king, with much religious pomp, in the cathedral of Vladimir. Novgorod manifested some resistance to his assumptions. He instantly invaded the principality, hewed down all opposition, and punished his opponents with such severity that there was a simultaneous cry for mercy.
The constant endeavors of the Greek emperors for the conversion of the Russians by means of their ambassadors and preachers, the tolerance of the princes, the example and protection of Olga, and the very delay and hesitation of Vladimir in selecting his religion must have favorably disposed the minds of the people toward it; especially if it be true, as has been asserted, that Russia had already had a bishop in the time of Oskold.
But Ivan was, at this time, little given to melancholies; and a laughing question from Vladimir in the next room, brought him back to realities and his man's work. Thus, finally, on the second Monday in June, the regiment began its two-day march to camp; and bore the hours of unaccustomed walking badly enough to draw upon it the immediate attention of every colonel in the Corps.
I heard footsteps and Doctor Blagovo appeared among the trees. He was wearing a silk shirt and high boots. Clearly they had arranged a rendezvous by the apple-tree. When she saw him she flung herself impulsively into his arms with a cry of anguish, as though he was being taken away from her: "Vladimir! Vladimir!"
No novelists any good except me." And, having uttered this dictum, he removed a slab of cake from a near-by plate, steered it through the jungle, and began to champ. It is too much to say that there was a dead silence. There could never be that in any room in which Vladimir Brusiloff was eating cake. But certainly what you might call the general chit-chat was pretty well down and out.
You—a desperate socialist or anarchist—which is it?” “Anarchist,” stated Mr Verloc in a deadened tone. “Bosh!” went on Mr Vladimir, without raising his voice. “You startled old Wurmt himself. You wouldn’t deceive an idiot. They all are that by-the-by, but you seem to me simply impossible. So you began your connection with us by stealing the French gun designs. And you got yourself caught.
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