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Walter and Larry at once put on their capotes, fur-caps, and snow-shoes, and sallied forth, leaving Mrs Gore seated alone, and in a state of deep anxiety, by the side of her untasted New Year's Day dinner.
Breakfast over, the three hunters clothed themselves in habiliments suitable to the climate leathern coats and trousers which were impervious to the wind; cloth leggings to keep the snow from the trousers; leather mocassins, or shoes with three pairs of blanket socks inside of them; fur-caps with ear-pieces; leather mittens with an apartment for the fingers and a separate chamber for the thumb, powder-horns, shot-pouches, guns, and snow-shoes.
"Corny," said my friend, throwing down his hat with a most rueful aspect; for, winter having departed, and spring come, we had all laid aside our fur-caps "Corny, I have just been refused again! That word, 'no, has got to be so common with Mary Wallace, that I am afraid her tongue will never know how to utter a 'yes! Do you know, Corny, I have a great mind to consult Mother Doortje!"
Then the Duke drove up in a sleigh with four horses, his aide-de-camp, two postilions, and a friend, both of them so wrapped up in pelisses and immense fur-caps that you could only see the tips of their red noses, like danger signals on railroads. No wonder! They had had three hours of this cold sleigh-ride! The quiet old schloss was transformed. Each guest had his own servant and chasseur.
He now ran at the head like a sheep worried by watch-dogs. They stopped in front of the cottage, silent, breathless, expectant. Yakob looked at his companions with boundless astonishment. Their faces under their fur-caps had a tense, cruel look, their brows were wrinkled, their eyes glittered. From all sides other Cossacks were advancing.
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