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"Yes, but not all of you just one or two. Help him I say!" The spluttering Mokei, however, said to the Morduine and myself: "No; do you move away, mates, for I shall best help myself. Never you mind." And, sure enough, he did succeed in drawing himself out on to the ice without assistance. Whereafter he remarked as he shook himself: "A nice pickle, this, to be in!
Come, let us salute that land for having deemed us worthy of residence therein!" Whereupon all present, including a deacon-student from the Ecclesiastical School, a Morduine from the Foreign College, a student of veterinary science, and two of our tutors, had done obeisance. At the same time I recalled the fact that subsequently one of the party had gone mad, and committed suicide.
The police have been sent for." And this led Boev to exclaim to Ossip: "Why pretend like that?" "Pretend? "Yes you." "What do you mean?" "I mean that it was you who egged us on to cross the river." "You say that it was I?" "I do." "Indeed?" "Aye," put in Budirin quietly, but incisively. And him the Morduine supported by saying in a sullen undertone: "It was you, mate. By God it was.
And, similarly, the younger members of the artel liked well enough to listen to his tales, but declined to take him seriously, and, in some cases, regarded him with ill-concealed, or openly expressed, distrust. Once the Morduine, a man of education with whom, on occasions, I held discussions on intimate subjects, replied to a question of mine on the subject of Ossip: "I scarcely know.
By this time the town had nearly passed us, and we were bidding fair to be carried out into the Volga, where the ice would still be sound, and, as likely as not, draw us under itself. "By your leave, we are going to be drowned," the Morduine murmured as he glanced at the blue shadow of eventide on our left.
I will walk first, and next there must come well, which is the heaviest? you, soldier, and then Mokei, and then the Morduine, and then Boev, and then Mishuk, and then Sashok, and then Makarei, the lightest of all. And do you all take off your caps before starting, and say a prayer to the Mother of God. Ha! Here is Old Father Sun coming out to greet us."
Unfortunately, Boev and Saniavin, the men who had been engaged upon the task of cutting out the sockets for the braces, had worked so amiss, and run their lines so straight, that, when it came to the point, the arms of the braces refused to sink properly into the wood. "Oh, you cock-eyed fool of a Morduine!" shouted Ossip, smiting his fist against the side of his cap.
For myself, as I sprang upon the floe I lost my footing, and, falling headlong and remaining seated on the hither end of the floe amid a shower of spray, saw five of my seven comrades rush past, pushing and jostling, as they made for the shore. But presently the Morduine turned and halted beside me, with the intention of rendering Ossip assistance. "Run, you young fools!" the latter exclaimed.
Why, regarded as a workman, you're as lifeless as a doornail, while, seeing that you weren't born to be a master, you'll all your life continue chattering in corners, like a plummet swinging at the end of a string! Yes, and that was true enough." Lastly, after another pause the Morduine concluded: "No matter. He is not such a bad sort."
Meanwhile the Morduine ran by my side, cursing vigorously as he did so, and Ossip followed us, walking backwards. "No, no, Narodetz," he said. "But, my good Ossip " "Never mind. What has to be, has to be." "But, as likely as not, we may remain stuck here for two days!" "Never mind even if we DO remain stuck here." "But what of the festival?"
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