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They would not halt; they would cross the bridge though not without taking all due precautions. Alighting from the carriage, they allowed it to go forward, the coachman driving slowly, while the Cossack, with his lantern, pointed out all the dangerous places. "I do not think," says Madame de Hell, "that in the whole course of my travels we were ever in so alarming a situation.
'What do you want of me, what are you after? uttered Olenin. 'Nothing; only I'll tell them at the office. Nazarka spoke very loud, and evidently did so intentionally, adding: 'Just see what a clever cadet! Olenin trembled and grew pale. 'Come here, here! He seized the Cossack firmly by the arm and drew him towards his hut. 'Nothing happened, she did not let me in, and I too mean no harm.
When General Gourko first broke into the great plain south of the Balkans with his Cossack advance guard, the Christian population rose rejoicingly to receive them and persuaded themselves without difficulty that the rule of their Mahommedan masters was dead and done with then and there. They were supplied with arms and were urged to revolt.
The early days of July marked the inauguration of the second series of riots, the so-called summer pogroms. The new conflagration started in the city of Pereyaslav, in the government of Poltava, which had not yet discarded its anti-Jewish Cossack traditions. Pereyaslav at that time harbored many fugitives from Kiev, who had escaped from the spring pogroms in that city.
At the conclusion of one of these free and easy entertainments, a young Cossack hetman remained behind the crowd of departing guests, and when quite alone with the host he said to him: "Jelagin, did you see the pretty woman with whom I danced the mazurka to-night?" "Yes, I saw her. Are you smitten with her, as others have been?" "That woman I must make my wife."
It is not a fit thing for their mouse-like natures." Thus spoke the hetman; and after he had finished his speech he still continued to shake his head, which had grown grey in Cossack service. All who stood there were deeply affected by his speech, which went to their very hearts. The oldest in the ranks stood motionless, their grey heads drooping.
The Cossack who accompanied me there was but one now, for the other Cossack had gone away to the right some time before, and was quite lost to view had brought my friend's alpenstock, and was developing a considerable capacity for wielding it.
Here were free-and-easy young landowners in embroidered jackets and grey trousers, with long curling hair and little waxed moustaches, staring about them with gentlemanly insolence; other noblemen in Cossack dress, with extraordinarily short necks, and eyes lost in layers of fat, were snorting with distressing distinctness; merchants sat a little apart on the qui-vive, as it is called; officers were chatting freely among themselves.
But when the work of devastation and pillage was done, he suddenly turned his horses' heads south from Jekaderinograd; overran the Cossack colonies in that direction; and with a considerable number of Kabardians forced into his ranks, with his cruppers loaded with the booty of the plains, and his saddle-bows well furnished with both millet and mutton, regained the mountains.
In the meantime the steppe had long since received them all into its green embrace; and the high grass, closing round, concealed them, till only their black Cossack caps appeared above it. "Eh, eh, why are you so quiet, lads?" said Bulba at length, waking from his own reverie. "You're like monks. Now, all thinking to the Evil One, once for all!
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