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Presently he ordered the elder and cook to depart, after which Michael went behind a screen and threw himself upon the bed. He was sighing and moaning, as if in great distress, when his wife came in and spoke kindly to him. He refused to listen to her, exclaiming: "He has conquered me, and my end is near!" "Mishinka," said the woman, "arise and go to the moujiks in the field.
The element of rhythm in sound and movement has always been one of the chief means of exciting and expressing religious exaltation as well as sexual passion, and the two emotions merge easily in all primitive people whether they be the half-civilised moujiks of Russia, or the frequenters of modern "Revival Meetings," or the naked Batonka on the banks of the Zambesi.
Everything enchanted him the costume even of the moujiks, vivid blouses, the red shirts over the trousers, the full legs and the boots up to the knees, even the unfortunates who, in spite of the soft atmosphere, were muffled up in sheepskin coats, all impressed him favorably, everything appeared to him original and congenial. Order reigned in the city.
The soldiers sang for some time, to the great delight of the villagers; and when Ivan commanded them to stop they instantly ceased. Ivan then ordered them off to the barn, telling the astonished and mystified moujiks that they must not follow him. Reaching the barn, he turned the soldiers again into straw and went home to sleep off the effects of his debauch.
We must point out to them that the Jew saves money and amasses wealth, while they toil in penury; that Jews fill our schools and colleges, while our people remain ignorant; that the Jew, base, deceitful, and avaricious, fattens on their misery." "The moujiks once aroused," resumed the priest, "and the race struggle begun, the Czar may sleep in peace."
The women sat upon hand-fashioned crates wherein were all their most prized household goods, and abandoned themselves to a paroxysm of weeping despair, while the children shrieked stridently, victim of all the realistic horrors that only childhood can conjure. Most of the men looked on in silence, uncomprehending resignation on their faces, mute, pathetic figures. Poor moujiks!
Herds of moujiks, the old men, the women, the children, the poor little babies, struggled blindly eastwards through the village. Pushing their miserable household gods on handcarts, or staggering along with loads on their backs, and weary children dragging at their arms, the human tide flowed eastwards, round our house, begged perhaps a drink of water, and then wandered feverishly onwards.
Steinmetz grunted acquiescence and walked wearily to the window. This was only an old and futile argument of his own. "And make it impossible for me to live another day among them," said Paul. "Do you think St. Petersburg would countenance a prince who works among his moujiks?" Stépan Lanovitch's pale blue eyes looked troubled. Steinmetz shrugged his shoulders.
"He is mad!" repeated the other two slaves mechanically. "Oh, I am mad?" said Ivan. "Well, will you take a wager?" "What will you wager?" "Two hundred roubles against a year of free drinking in your inn." "Done!" said Gregory. "Are your comrades included?" said the two moujiks. "They are included," said Ivan, "and in consideration of them we will reduce the time to six months. Is that agreed?"
Now it happened that there was not a single Jew in the tavern on that memorable Sunday. The twelve Israelitish families of Togarog found sufficient relaxation and entertainment in their own circle, and did not in the least yearn after the boisterous and uncivil companionship of Russian moujiks.
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