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Having dressed, they ate the remainder of their provisions, while Ivanoff sighed ruefully for a draught of ice-cold beer. "Let's go, shall we?" he said. "Right!" They raced at full speed to the river-bank, jumped into their boat, and pushed off. "Doesn't the sun sting!" said Sanine, who was lying at full length in the bottom of the boat. "That means rain," replied Ivanoff.
Ivanoff was a schoolmaster, a long-haired, broad-shouldered, ungainly man. They had been walking on the boulevard, and hearing of Yourii's arrival had come to salute him. With their coming things grew more cheerful. There was laughter and joking, and at supper much was drunk. Ivanoff distinguished himself in this respect.
Sanine burst out laughing, and leaped about in the same way. Their nude bodies gleamed in the sun, every muscle showing beneath the tense skin. "Ouf!" gasped Ivanoff. Sanine went on dancing by himself, and finished up by turning a somersault, head foremost. "Come along, or I shall drink up all the vodka," cried his companion.
They had no eyes for the radiant morning sky, pale green at the horizon, and changing over head to blue; they did not see the fair meadows and fields, nor the shining river that lay below. They still went on arguing. Ivanoff triumphantly proved to Yourii that people of his sort were worthless, since they feared to take from life that which life offered them.
"Do you know a Russian who calls himself Charles Ivanoff?" "I saw him once at Grenoble." "It is said that he has escaped from Siberia, and that he is the younger son of the Duke of Courland." "So I have heard, but I know no proof of his claim to the title." "He is at Genoa, where it is said a banker is to give him twenty thousand crowns.
"I suppose I ought to strike him ... rush at him, and give him one in the eye! Otherwise, I shall look such a fool, for they must all have guessed that I wanted to pick a quarrel...." But, instead of doing this, he pretended to be interested in what Ivanoff and Von Deitz were saying. "As regards women, I don't altogether agree with Tolstoi," said the officer complacently.
A further consideration may have been the absolute certainty that Germany would dispatch more reenforcements to the aid of her ally. Selivanoff's siege army was distributed between Dmitrieff, Brussilov, and Ivanoff, but they could not be employed to full advantage owing to the restricted area presented by the Germanic front.
At the church-porch lamps glimmered, and in the air there was a faint odour either of incense or of faded poplar-leaves. "Hullo, Svarogitsch!" shouted some one behind him. Yourii turned round, and saw Schafroff, Sanine, Ivanoff and Peter Ilitch, who came across the court-yard, talking loudly and merrily.
Ivanoff decided to venture a counterattack which would at the same time relieve the pressure on his center and also check the move on Josefov, dangerously near to the Warsaw-Ivangorod-Lublin line. The result of this plan was the brilliant surprise attack on the Austrians and Germans previously described.
She posed for him in a light-coloured blouse, open at the neck, and her pretty shell-pink arms showed through the semi- transparent stuff. The room was filled with sunlight which lit up her golden hair, and heightened the charm of her girlish grace. "Good day," said Ivanoff, as, entering, he flung his hat on to a chair. "Ah! it's you. Well, what's the news?" asked Yourii, smiling.
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