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Gaythorne's compliments," was pencilled in a shaky hand, and on the second slip, almost illegibly, "For Mrs. Luttrell's aunt." "Oh, Marcus, how sweet of him!" and Olivia looked almost lovely in her excitement, and Marcus agreed that he was a good old sort.
Pougatcheff descended the steps and vaulted quickly into his saddle without the aid of his attendant Cossacks. At that moment Saveliitch came out of the crowd, approached the usurper, and presented him a sheet of paper. "What is this?" asked Pougatcheff, with dignity. "Read, you will deign to see," replied the serf. Pougatcheff examined the paper. "You write very illegibly; where is my Secretary?"
A clerk or two, noiselessly opening and shutting the door, from time to time, fetching fresh bundles of letters and taking away others all written and composed by secretaries or high functionaries and all to be scrawled over in the margin by the diligent old man in a big schoolboy's hand and style if ever schoolboy, even in the sixteenth century, could write so illegibly or express himself so awkwardly; couriers in the court-yard arriving from or departing for the uttermost parts of earth-Asia, Africa America, Europe-to fetch and carry these interminable epistles which contained the irresponsible commands of this one individual, and were freighted with the doom and destiny of countless millions of the world's inhabitants such was the system of government against which the Netherlands had protested and revolted.
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