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One of the men made a very fine shot from his saddle at a tree-stump in the river, about two hundred and fifty yards away, and hit within a few feet. It proved the accuracy and carrying distance of the Montenegrin revolver. This man, a Turkish renegade, was one of the most interesting men whom we met. He was a marvellous talker in fact, he never stopped during our visit.
The countess also believed that a religious education, the cloister, and monastic supervision, would subdue the ardent passions of the precocious little girl, whose Montenegrin blood seemed to her like a threatening flame which might one day set fire to the domestic happiness of her faithful Olympe. So all was at peace at the chateau des Aigues.
Russia was said to be implicated in the plot, for the girls of the Russian Institute had trampled on the Prince's portrait at the bidding of Sofia Petrovna, its head! After this the whole work of the Montenegrin section was wasted. Not one of the trade openings we found some very good were taken up, and no letters were replied to.
At Danilograd we marvelled at the enormous expensive bridge which seemed to lead to nothing but a couple of tiny villages. We missed the picturesque Turkish houses, built indeed only for to-day like their roads, but full of unexpected corners and mysterious balconies. The Montenegrin houses were small and simple, four walls and a roof, like the drawing of a three-year-old child.
A quarter of a mile from the first Montenegrin trench the Austrians charged fiercely. All eyes were turned to that section of the field. The shock was but a few moments away. At that moment almost the moment of impact a second line of men issued from the Austrian, trenches, this time on the Montenegrin left wing.
Nicolas expressed his pleasure at seeing them and after a few words of pleasantry, said: "Now, gentlemen, if you will accompany me to my quarters, I shall try and make you feel at home." As they walked along Hal and Chester took stock of the Montenegrin. Big he was, fully as tall and as broad as Ivan himself, and his great arms hung below his knees.
The enterprising and industrious Albanian was worth a dozen of the conceited idle Montenegrins. Except Prince Nikola and the hotelier Vuke Vuletitch, it was hard to find a Montenegrin in Cetinje who used his brains if he had any.
He has, most likely, another name, but I do not know it." "But why should a Montenegrin seek to raise the enmity of the Albanians against his own people?" Chester demanded. "There is but one reason gold," said Ivan simply. "And his methods?" inquired Colonel Anderson. "More gold," was the reply. "I see," said Colonel Anderson. "Furnished by the Austrians, eh?" "How else?
On Sunday, June 29, I saw encamped across the street from my hotel in Uskub 15,000 of these Montenegrin soldiers who had arrived only a day or two before by train from Mitrowitza, into which they had marched across Novi Bazar.
But no compensation will induce a Montenegrin to accept a work which is considered not the work of a man. In military courage and docility the Montenegrin probably stands at the head of European races. He is born brave, and comes under the law of military obedience as soon as he can carry arms.
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