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Tomsk is a dull and intemperate town. There are absolutely no good-looking women, and the disregard for justice is Asiatic. The town is remarkable for the fact that governors die in it. If my letters are short, careless, or dry, don't be cross, for one cannot always be oneself on a journey and write as one wants to. The ink is bad, and there is always a hair or a splodge on one's pen.
He was with the volunteers, farther south." He looked at her and her eyes dropped. "Which is north and which is south?" The walking-stick indicated the points of the compass. "I see. And you were there in that great splodge in the middle. Go on. What did you do then?" The walking-stick staggered in a wavering line eastwards. But before it could join the Nile, Mrs.
Splodge! went the officer in front of me, with a yell of dismay. The water was well above his top-boots. Splosh! went another man ahead, recovering from a side-slip in the oozy mud and clinging desperately to some bunches of yarrow growing up the side of the trench. Squelch! went a young gentleman whose puttees and breeches had lost their glory and were but swabs about his elegant legs.
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