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Updated: May 7, 2025
I'm a hot-headed fellow, but you've a brain a brain worth its weight in gold! Your race are like that; you succeed in everything without being taught! You're wondering, perhaps, where I could have got the money? Come into my room I'll show you all the money. You may take it, you may take the cross off my neck, only give me back Malek-Adel; give him me back again!
This is the same one; this is Malek-Adel.... I found him. The fellow's raving!.... 'Ay! ay! ay! responded the deacon emphatically with a sort of drawl, drumming with his fingers in his beard, and eyeing Tchertop-hanov with his bright eager eyes: 'How's that, sir? Your horse, God help my memory, was stolen a fortnight before Intercession last year, and now we're near the end of November.
Tchertop-hanov turned to go up the steps, but turning sharply back, and running up to the Jew, he pressed his hand warmly. The latter was bending down to kiss his hand, but Tchertop-hanov bounded back again, and murmuring, 'Tell no one! he vanished through the door. From that very day the chief interest, the chief occupation, the chief pleasure in the life of Tchertop-hanov, was Malek-Adel.
Once some hunting landowner even gave chase to him with all his suite; he saw Tchertop-hanov was getting away, and he began shouting after him with all his might, as he galloped at full speed: 'Hey, you! Here! Take what you like for your horse! I wouldn't grudge a thousand! I'd give my wife, my children! Take my last farthing! Tchertop-hanov suddenly reined in Malek-Adel.
The day after his return, Panteley Eremyitch called Perfishka in to him, and for want of anyone else to talk to, began telling him keeping up, of course, his sense of his own dignity and his bass voice how he had succeeded in finding Malek-Adel.
Tchertop-hanov was not so much confused by the physical differences between this Malek-Adel and that one... though there were a few such differences: that one's tail and mane were a little thinner, and his ears more pointed, and his pasterns shorter, and his eyes brighter but all that might be only fancy; what confounded Tchertop-hanov most were, so to say, the moral differences.
Tchertop-hanov picked him up, sat him on a bench, poured a glass of vodka down his throat, and restored him to consciousness. And having restored him to consciousness, he began to talk to him. It turned out that the Jew had not the slightest idea that Malek-Adel had been stolen.
On a table near the bed stood an empty spirit bottle, and at the head of the bed were two water-colour sketches pinned to the wall; one represented, as far as could be made out, a fat man with a guitar in his hand probably Nedopyuskin; the other portrayed a horseman galloping at full speed.... The horse was like those fabulous animals which are sketched by children on walls and fences; but the carefully washed-in dappling of the horse's grey coat, and the cartridge pocket on the rider's breast, the pointed toes of his boots, and the immense moustaches, left no room for doubt this sketch was meant to represent Panteley Eremyitch riding on Malek-Adel.
Why, anyone except his master, Malek-Adel would have trampled under foot! He'd have raised such a din, he'd have roused the whole village? Do you agree with me? 'I agree, I agree, your ex-shelency.... 'Well, then, it follows that first of all we must find this Cossack! 'But how are we to find him, your ex-shelency?
'And what am I to do now without Malek-Adel? Tchertop-hanov brooded. 'I've lost my last pleasure now; it's time to die. Buy another horse, seeing the money has come? But where find another horse like that? 'Panteley Eremyitch! Panteley Eremyitch! he heard a timid call at the door. Tchertop-hanov jumped on to his feet. 'Who is it? he shouted in a voice not his own.
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