Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 6, 2025
And Pan Ponyatsky? Why should he not earn an odd fifty roubles? Who was he to know of love across the seas and hills? Yesterday, the day before, and again to-day, continuous fighting and retreating. The staff-train moved off, but the officers went on foot. A wide array of men, wagons, horses, cannon, ordinance. All in a vast confusion.
Kremnev had never felt such a throbbing joy as he felt now, sitting on the carriage step. Pan Ponyatsky repeated that she was a beauty, and waiting that the captain must not delay; and led him through the dark corridor of the train. The carriage smelt of men and leather; behind the doors of the compartments echoed a sound of laughter from those who were playing cards.
It was an officer's compartment; there was a smell of perfume, and on one of the lower bunks was a woman sleeping. Kremnev threw off his cloak and sat down by the sleeping figure. The door opened; Pan Ponyatsky thrust in his head and whispered: "Don't worry about her, sir; she is all right, only a little quieter now." Then the head disappeared. Love! Love over the seas and hills and years!
The two men walked half the length of the train. As they passed from one waggon to another they saw the flare of a rocket in the distance, and in its baleful green light the number of carriage 30-35 loomed in faint outline. Pan Ponyatsky unlocked the door and whispered: "Here. Only mind, be quiet." The Pan closed the door after Kremnev.
He told him of a woman, young and very beautiful. The captain's knees began to tremble; he sat helplessly on the step of the carriage, and fumbled in his pocket for a cigarette. Pan Ponyatsky warned him that he must not strike a light. In the distance could be heard the roar of cannon, like an approaching midnight storm.
Someone cynically remarked that there was a close resemblance between life at the front and life in a monastery, in as much as in both the chief topic of conversation was women: there was no reason, therefore, why monks should not be sent to the front for fasting and prayer. While they were playing cards, the guard, Pan Ponyatsky, came in and spoke to the cavalry-captain Kremnev.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking