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Updated: June 5, 2025
There must be cottages somewhere shepherds' or goat-herds' where as soon as the people understand that we are not French they might give me some black-bread and an onion or two." The young soldier laughed a soft, low, mocking kind of laugh. "Black-bread and an onion! How queer it seems! Why, there was a time when I wouldn't have touched such stuff, while now it sounds like a feast.
Temple and I cantered over the great Belgian battlefield, talking of Bella Vista tower, the statue, the margravine, our sour milk and black-bread breakfast, the little Princess Ottilia, with her 'It is my question, and 'You were kind to my lambs, sir, thoughtless of glory and dead bones. My father was very differently impressed.
The line of droschke drivers, in front of the post-office colonnade, hide the red facings of their coats under long overcoats, and stand in cold expectancy beside their blanketed horses, which must need twice the quantity of black-bread in this chilly air; for the horses here eat bread, like people.
"Shucks! you gimme a chance and I'll " "There, now close your head! and don't you open it again till you're asked." "That hateful black-bread; but I seldom ate anything during that time; that was poor Luigi's affair " "I'll never Mister him again!" cried the widow, with strong emotion, "he's Luigi to me, from this out!"
They have all been more or less civilised by Russian intercourse, and have adopted Russian manners and the religion of the Greek Church. Those settled along the Lena cultivate rye and hay, keep herds of Siberian horses and cattle, and live principally upon coarse black-bread, milk, butter, and horse-flesh. They are notorious gluttons.
"All right;" and the boy rose immediately, staring hard at his companion, as Pen, with a quiver of emotion in his utterance, laid his hand over the remains of the black-bread, and said, gazing hard at the old priest the while, "Benedictus, benedicat. Amen." "Ah!" said the priest, with a long-drawn breath of satisfaction; "Benedictus, benedicat Amen."
At these dancing parties the Americans always received a hearty welcome, and were fed with berries, black-bread, and tea, until they could eat and dance no more. Occasionally, however, Siberian hospitality took a form which, to say the least, was not altogether pleasant.
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