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Updated: May 31, 2025
Here is the drinking booth, and here sundry itinerant vendors of old clothes, and of all improbable commodities to be found at a horse-fair wall-paper. Neither has much success. The old-clothes woman casts down a heap of singularly repellant rags before a disparaging customer; she beats them with her fists, presumably to show their soundness in wind and limb: a cloud of germ-laden dust arises.
"Sebek the steward told him all about it from me before the hour of audience and tried to have Hiram released." "And he said.... ?" "The lady Neforis said it was all a mere will-o'-the-wisp, and my lord agreed with her. Then your uncle forbade Sebek to betray the matter to you, and sent word to me that he would possibly send Hiram to Sinai when the horse-fair was over.
"I am in the governor's service now, and the day after to-morrow is the great horse-fair at Niku. The young master wants some stallions bought and there are our foals to. . . ." "I will implore my uncle to-morrow, to spare you," cried Paula. "I will go on my knees to him." "He will not let him go," said the nurse.
He is kept in this position, with a few cabbages to feed on, for three days, so that he may preside over the pig-fair and the horse-fair and the day of winding up.
He also said he lived in lodgings and intended going to the horse-fair the next day to look for a good horse, and, may be, to buy one. He went on to state that he had now nearly twenty-five roubles only one rouble short and that half of it was a coupon. He took the coupon out of his purse to show to his new friend.
It is true the once regular and even now rather pleasing features of his face have undergone some change; his cheeks are flabby; there are close wrinkles like rays about his eyes; a few teeth are not, as Saadi, according to Pushkin, used to say; his light brown hair at least, all that is left of it has assumed a purplish hue, thanks to a composition bought at the Romyon horse-fair of a Jew who gave himself out as an Armenian; but Vyatcheslav Ilarionovitch has a smart walk and a ringing laugh, jingles his spurs and curls his moustaches, and finally speaks of himself as an old cavalry man, whereas we all know that really old men never talk of being old.
He wanted to take Dora at once to the menagerie, but I represented the inexpedience of their taking her about with them to the horse-fair afterwards, and made Eustace perceive that it would not do for Miss Alison; and as Harold backed my authority, she did not look like thunder for more than ten minutes when she found we were to drive to Neme Heath, and that she was to go home with me after seeing the animals.
If we are discovered, I will confess the truth; if you alone are seen, you can say well, say you were waiting for Orion, to speak to him very early about the horse-fair at Niku." "A horse was off off offered me for sale this very day." "Good, very good; then you lingered in the vestibule to speak of that to ask the master about it before he should go out. It must be daylight in a few hours.
"Sebek the steward told him all about it from me before the hour of audience and tried to have Hiram released." "And he said...?" "The lady Neforis said it was all a mere will-o'-the-wisp, and my lord agreed with her. Then your uncle forbade Sebek to betray the matter to you, and sent word to me that he would possibly send Hiram to Sinai when the horse-fair was over. So take patience, sweetheart.
Let us come, though, to our story. After all I have said above, there is no need to explain to the reader how I happened five years ago to be at Lebedyan just in the very thick of the horse-fair.
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