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Officers of different regiments were crowding everywhere; an extraordinarily lanky cuirassier of German extraction was languidly inquiring of a lame horse-dealer 'what he expected to get for that chestnut. A fair-haired young hussar, a boy of nineteen, was choosing a trace-horse to match a lean carriage-horse; a post-boy in a low- crowned hat, with a peacock's feather twisted round it, in a brown coat and long leather gloves tied round the arm with narrow, greenish bands, was looking for a shaft-horse.
'And beyond them come the Grand Duke's; there are no other meadows like them in all Russia.... Ah, it's lovely! The shaft-horse snorted and shook itself.... 'God bless you, commented Filofey gravely in an undertone. 'How lovely! he repeated with a sigh; then he gave a long sort of grunt. 'There, mowing time's just upon us, and think what hay they'll rake up there! regular mountains!
It turned out that Yermolai had spoken the truth: the shaft-horse really could not put its hoof to the ground. I promptly gave orders for it to have the shoe taken off, and to be stood on damp clay. 'Then do you wish me to hire horses to go to Tula? Yermolai persisted. 'Do you suppose we can get horses in this wilderness? I exclaimed with involuntary irritation.
"Well," thought I, "come what may!..." To drive past her mistress's house was nice, wasn't it? Tell me yourself wasn't it nice? So we drove on. The shaft-horse seemed to float through the air, and the trace-horses went, I can tell you, like a regular whirlwind.
"Oh, yes, indeed!" replied Pierre, roughly; "one must have money in one's pocket for that, and this fellow has only debts instead of savings." "But you," said I, rather astonished; "are you not his friend?" "Friend!" interrupted the bookbinder. "Yes, as much as the shaft-horse is friend to the leader on condition that each will take his share of the draught, and eat his feed by himself."
The rain did not last long, and by the time Vronsky arrived, his shaft-horse trotting at full speed and dragging the trace-horses galloping through the mud, with their reins hanging loose, the sun had peeped out again, the roofs of the summer villas and the old limetrees in the gardens on both sides of the principal streets sparkled with wet brilliance, and from the twigs came a pleasant drip and from the roofs rushing streams of water.
They crossed Paris peaceably, and without any other adventure than an imprudence committed by Préveraud, who, seeing that the shaft-horse of a wagon had fallen down, threw aside his muff, lifted his veil and his petticoat, and if Terrier, in dire alarm, had not stopped him, he would have helped the carter to raise his horse. Had a sergent de ville been there, Préveraud would have been captured.
He loosened the shaft-horse carefully, though somewhat nervously, she shook her head, backed a little, and went down a slope which had no business there at all. "I'm afraid I don't quite understand you," Nejdanov observed. Markelov gave a forced, malicious laugh. "So you don't understand me! ha, ha, ha! I know everything, my dear sir!
'You wretched Muscovite, he added in a voice full of contempt, shook his head and limped away. 'What are you up to? sang out the peasant at intervals, pulling at the shaft-horse. 'Ah, you devil! Get on! The jaded horses dragged themselves at last up to the posting-station.
She was a quiet woman, and had an air as if she had to act as shaft-horse for the team, and was pretty well used to holding back. And I reckon she had a good deal of it to do. One party attracted our attention as soon as we went aboard. It was made up of a lady and two gentlemen-hunters.
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