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Updated: May 11, 2025
Darco travelled with his own company, majestically Astrachan-furred and splendid, but rarely clean-shaven. Nine days in ten an aggressive stubble on cheek and chin seemed to sprout from an inward sense of his own glorious import. 'I am Cheorge Dargo, he said unfailingly to every provincial stage-manager he met 'I nefer sbeaks to beobles twice.
While making Dargo his headquarters where he had collected considerable stores of ammunition and provisions, he with unabating zeal went the rounds of all the neighboring tribes, keeping alive the ardor of those who were friendly to him, and visiting with condign punishment those who took sides with the enemy.
I gave the paker ten dollars the week after and dold him vat I had done. He puffed idly and sipped his Gloria. 'I am Cheorge Dargo, he murmured nosily. 'There is nothings I haf not been. There is nothings I have not seen. There is nothings worth doing that I have not done. He smoked and sipped again. 'But I haf not got a liderary sdyle. You haf a liderary sdyle.
Such remained the state of affairs until the year 1842, when General Grabbe, less benefited by experience than his antagonist, resolved to make an expedition against Dargo, similar to that of Akhulgo.
If you burchase it, it is yours, and nopoty can take it away. Honesty is the best policy. And, pesides that, I am Cheorge Dargo. I know my way apout. Paul could have hugged him for sheer joy at hearing the familiar brag again: 'I am Cheorge Dargo. The old countersign was like music. 'Where are we going? asked Paul.
Still Woronzoff fought his way through; and as the shades of night began to gather under the woods he was in sight of Dargo.
The brave General Klucke did his best; but when he arrived at Dargo he had left thirteen hundred of his men, together with the two generals, behind in the woods. Three hundred mules also with their packs, and a considerable number of wagons loaded with grain, besides one cannon, fell into the hands of the enemy.
I am Cheorge Dargo, ant I nefer forgive an incratitude. This contemptuous parting wounded Paul to the quick, and the strange statements about Claudia maddened him. In one respect, at least, Darco, in his treatment of women, was chivalry incarnate; he would speak no scandal no, nor listen to it. Paul tossed and tumbled throughout the night a prey to shame and passion and cold doubt.
Three years passed before the Russians again sought to penetrate the mountains in force. Then General Grabbe, the victor at Akhulgo, attempted to repeat his success at Dargo. But the experience he gained proved to be of a less agreeable type.
It makes a coward of every man who doesn't lead a square life, let him be as game as he may. Jim wouldn't touch it. 'No, he said, when I laughed at him, 'I promised mother last time I had more than was good for me at Dargo Races that I wouldn't touch it again for two years; and I won't either. I can stand what any other man can, and without the hard stuff, either.
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