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Updated: June 20, 2025
Lukashka stood quietly in front of the girls, his eyes laughed, and he spoke but little as he glanced now at his drunken companions and now at the girls. When Maryanka joined the group he raised his cap with a firm deliberate movement, moved out of her way and then stepped in front of her with one foot a little forward and with his thumbs in his belt, fingering his dagger.
Then with long strokes of his white arms, lifting his back high out of the water and breathing deeply, he swam across the current of the Terek towards the shallows. A crowd of Cossacks stood on the bank talking loudly. Three horsemen rode off to patrol. The skiff appeared round a bend. Lukashka stood up on the sandbank, leaned over the body, and gave it a couple of shakes.
I shall reach the company by the morning anyway. 'Hasn't the cadet given you anything more? 'I am thankful to have paid him back with a dagger he was going to ask for the horse, said Lukashka, dismounting and handing over the horse to Nazarka. He darted into the yard past Olenin's very window, and came up to the window of the cornet's hut. It was already quite dark.
The other Cossacks began laughing. The wag had not seen any vulture at all, but it had long been the custom of the young Cossacks in the cordon to tease and mislead Uncle Eroshka every time he came to them. 'Eh, you fool, always lying! exclaimed Lukashka from the tower to Nazarka. Nazarka was immediately silenced. 'It must be watched.
The sun had not yet risen, but it seemed that there was an unusual bustle in the street and side-street: people were moving about on foot and on horseback, and talking. He threw on his Circassian coat and hastened out into the porch. His hosts were not yet up. Five Cossacks were riding past and talking loudly together. In front rode Lukashka on his broad-backed Kabarda horse.
His sonorous voice resounded through the wood and downward along the river, suddenly dispelling the mysterious quiet of night around the Cossack. It was as if everything had suddenly become lighter and more distinct. 'There now. Uncle, you have not seen anything, but I've killed a beast, said Lukashka, uncocking his gun and getting up with unnatural calmness.
'What are you crying for? What is it? 'What? she repeated in a rough voice. 'Cossacks have been killed, that's what for. 'Lukashka? said Olenin. 'Go away! What do you want? 'Maryanka! said Olenin, approaching her. 'You will never get anything from me! 'Maryanka, don't speak like that, Olenin entreated. 'Get away.
In spite of the Cossack's entreaties to wait another minute to hear what he had to say, Maryanka did not stop. 'Go, she cried, 'you'll be seen! I do believe that devil, our lodger, is walking about the yard. 'Cornet's daughter, thought Lukashka. 'She will marry me. Marriage is all very well, but you just love me!
The captain one of the new type of Cossack officers wished the Cossacks 'Good health, but no one shouted in reply, 'Hail! Good health to your honour, as is customary in the Russian Army, and only a few replied with a bow. Some, and among them Lukashka, rose and stood erect. The corporal replied that all was well at the outposts.
He looked in the direction in which Lukashka pointed, and discerning a body immediately changed his tone. 'O Lord! But I say, more will come! I tell you the truth, said he softly, and began examining his musket.
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