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"I must go out into the world, father," he said one day to Alexei. "The convent is too small, too limited for me. I must work and toil with and for humanity. Let me go into the parish for a short time. The Bishop, who thinks well of me, may be able to procure me the position of blagotchinny. I will have an opportunity of learning the world, of succoring the needy, of aiding the sick.
She stood back as though she were going to strike him, then suddenly with a laugh she sprang upon the chair beside her, flung her arms round his neck and kissed him; then, still standing on the chair, turned and faced us all. "Now, that's enough all of you. Michael, Uncle Ivan, Uncle Alexei, Durdles how dare you, all of you? You're all as bad every one of you.
It can matter but little to the Head of a Household how the elections go, provided he himself is not chosen. He can accept with perfect equanimity Alexei, or Ivan, or Nikolai, because the office-bearers have very little influence in Communal affairs.
Mikail read Latin and German fluently, developed a talent for theology, and his shrewd arguments won the admiration of his fellow-priests. "He has a brilliant mind," said Alexei to himself one day. "Who knows, he may yet become a bishop." The Russian Catholic Church occupies a unique position as compared with the churches of Southern and Western Europe.
I still deny that Vera cares for Lawrence.... Nina has had some girl's romantic idea perhaps... but that is the extent of the trouble. You are trying to make things worse, Alexei Petrovitch, for your own purposes and God only knows what they are." He now spoke so quietly that I could scarcely hear his words.
I was silent, then I said: "And the third thing, Vera Michailovna?" "Uncle Alexei is coming back." That startled me. I felt my heart give one frantic leap. "Alexei Petrovitch!" I cried. "When? How soon?" "I don't know. I've had a letter." She felt in her dress, found the letter and read it through. "Soon, perhaps. He's leaving the Front for good. He's disgusted with it all, he says.
"Why doesn't he go back to his own country?" "I suppose," I would answer hotly, "he has other things to do than to consider your individual wishes, Alexei Petrovitch." Then he would laugh: "Well, well, Ivan Andreievitch, you sentimentalists all hang together." "Why can't you leave him alone?" I remember that I continued. "Because he doesn't leave me alone," he answered shortly.
The answering hail came from one of the aerostats in the centre of the squadron. Mazanoff at once replied "Unconditional surrender for the present, under guarantee of safety to every one who surrenders. Who are you?" "Colonel Alexei Alexandrovitch, in command of the squadron. I surrender on those terms. Who are you?" "The captain of the Terrorist air-ship Ariel.
Concealing three brace of pistols in his bosom, and leaving a well-armed boat close to the shore, with orders that the men should watch his movements, and act on his slightest signal, he ventured on a landing, accompanied by the Kurile Alexei and a common sailor. The lieutenant-governor soon appeared.
"I believe terribly." "And it hurt him deeply when she was killed?" "Desperately deeply." "But what kind of woman was she? What type? It's so strange to me. Uncle Alexei... with his love affairs!" I looked up, smiling. "She was your very opposite, Vera Michailovna, in everything. Like a child with no knowledge, no experience, no self-reliance nothing.
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