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"Thanks, your Highness, but can I command those who are so still?" "They are so no longer!" The brother of the Czar had granted a pardon to all Fedor's companions in exile, now his companions in arms! Wassili Fedor wrung, with emotion, the hand which the Grand Duke held out to him, and retired.
Fedor Ivanitch Lavretsky we must ask the reader's permission to break off the thread of our story for a time came of an old noble family. The founder of the house of Lavretskky came over from Prussia in the reign of Vassili the Blind, and received a grant of two hundred chetverts of land in Byezhetsk.
Although it would have eventually proved a mortal wound, the shock at the time was not sufficient to knock the bear off his feet. The next morning the storm broke, and we started back to our camp behind the rocks, for the skins we had recently shot needed to be cleaned and dried. We reached camp that afternoon, where I found my old hunter, Fedor, who was now better, and had come to join us.
And do you know I am surprised how well you speak Russian. C'est etonnant." Varvara Pavlovna sighed. "I have been too long abroad, Marya Dmitrievna, I know that; but my heart has always been Russian, and I have not forgotten my country." "Ah, ah; that is good. Fedor Ivanitch did not, however, expect you at all. Yes; you may trust my experience, la patri avant tout.
But is he a good man?" Liza laughed aloud, and looked up quickly at Fedor Ivanovich. "What a strange question!" she exclaimed, withdrawing her line from the water, and then throwing it a long way in again. "Why strange? I ask you about him as one who has been away from here a long time as a relation." "As a relation?" "Yes. I believe I am a sort of uncle of yours."
"I have not forgotten my sin; I should not have been surprised if I had learnt that you even rejoiced at the news of my death," she added softly, slightly pointing with her hand to the copy of the journal which was lying forgotten by Lavretsky on the table. Fedor Ivanitch started; the paper had been marked in pencil. Varvara Pavlovna gazed at him with still greater humility.
Marya Dmitrievna spoke of him the same day to Fedor Ivanitch in the following phrase, in boarding-school French: "Il n'y a plus maintenant de ces gens comme ca, comme autrefois." Lemm with the two little girls went off further to the dam of the pond; Lavretsky took up his position near Lisa.
All at once light footsteps were heard on the stairs and Lisa came in. Lavretsky stood up and bowed; Lisa remained at the door. "Lisa, Lisa, darling," began Marfa Timofyevna eagerly, "where is my book? where did you put my book?" "What book, auntie?" "Why, goodness me, that book! But I didn't call you though... There, it doesn't matter. What are you doing down-stairs? Here Fedor Ivanitch has come.
Fedor now fired, missing, while I ran up with Nikolai, firing another shot as I ran, which knocked the bear over. Stereke savagely attacked the bear, biting and shaking him, and seeing that he was breathing his last, I refrained from firing again, as the skin was excellent. This bear had had an encounter with a porcupine.
We spent our first day skirting the shores of the entire bay, paddling up to its very head. Ignati pointed out to Fedor all the most likely places, and explained the local eccentricities of the various winds a knowledge of these being of the first importance in bear hunting.
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