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Updated: June 3, 2025
'You were asleep and missed the abrek, didn't you? Suppose he had done for you it would have been all the better. 'You'd have howled, I expect, said Nazarka, laughing. 'Howled! A likely thing. 'Just look, she doesn't care. She'd howl, Nazarka, eh? Would she? said Ergushov. Lukishka all this time had stood silently looking at Maryanka. His gaze evidently confused the girl. 'Well, Maryanka!
Eh? 'She is lovely, said Olenin. 'Call her here! 'No, no, said the old man. 'For that one a match is being arranged with Lukashka, Luke, a fine Cossack, a brave, who killed an abrek the other day. I'll find you a better one. I'll find you one that will be all dressed up in silk and silver. Once I've said it I'll do it. I'll get you a regular beauty!
She puts her hand to her face like this, and clicks her tongue and presses her hands to her heart as much as to say "sorry." Shall I call her in? She understood all about the abrek. 'Call her, said Lukashka. 'And I had some tallow there; bring it: I must grease my sword. The old woman went out, and a few minutes later Lukashka's dumb sister came up the creaking steps and entered the hut.
They were frequently all three. He would rouse himself and ask what he had been thinking about; and would see himself as a Cossack working in a vineyard with his Cossack wife, or an abrek in the mountains, or a boar running away from himself. And all the time he kept peering and watching for a pheasant, a boar, or a deer. In the evening Daddy Eroshka would be sure to be sitting with him.
'Right enough it is an abrek! he thought joyfully, and suddenly rising to his knees he again took aim. Having found the sight, barely visible at the end of the long gun, he said: 'In the name of the Father and of the Son, in the Cossack way learnt in his childhood, and pulled the trigger.
The Cossacks paid little attention to him, first because he was smoking a cigarette, and secondly because they had something else to divert them that evening. Some hostile Chechens, relatives of the abrek who had been killed, had come from the hills with a scout to ransom the body; and the Cossacks were waiting for their Commanding Officer's arrival from the village.
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