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Updated: May 29, 2025
The house consisted of a single room, which was lighted by a wretched window covered with linen cloth. The floor was of beaten earth; the chair, a table, and a truckle-bed comprised the whole of the furniture. The commandant had never seen anything so poor and bare, not even in Russia, where the moujik's huts are like the dens of wild beasts.
He attained a splendid fulfilment of his own theories, employing the moujik's expressive vernacular in portraying his homely wisdom, religious faith, and goodness of nature. Sometimes the prevailing simplicity of style and motive is tinged with a vague colouring of oriental legend, but the personal accent is marked throughout. No similar achievement in the beginning Mr.
In black corduroy trousers, full and bagging as a moujik's, she stood at ease, her feet small and dainty even in the heavy caribou-hide boots. "Bon soir, monsieur," she said. "In two days we go with you to camp me and Antoine." "Wait!" he cried, but she had opened the door.
You would have thought the old woman would have been satisfied with that. Not a bit of it. "You don't know how to lift your eyes from the ground," says she. "You don't know what to ask. I am tired of being a peasant woman and a moujik's wife. I was made for something better. I want to be a lady, and have good people to do the work, and see folk bow and curtsy to me when I meet them walking abroad.
A nurse, a hag, a witch, a dark old gypsy creature, came over to me and asked me, in Russian: "'Do you wish to see his Royal Highness the King of Earth and Heaven? Thinking she was some stupid moujik's wife, I nodded my head seriously, though amused by the exalted titles.
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