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Updated: June 12, 2025
The colonel with a great display of pomp and gesticulating firmly impressed the starosta that on the following day all the peasants were to bring to this village their horses, prepared to sell them for the good of the cause. ... The following morning the streets were lined up with horses and owners, and they could be seen corning from all directions. At about ten o'clock the parade began.
At about one o'clock that morning the sentry on post near headquarters awakened us and said the starosta was outside and wished to see the commander, whereupon the C. O. sent word for him to come up to our quarters.
Besides, Mikail is a good fellow, and we all like him, and everyone would have been sorry if he had been killed." "What is he in for? I never asked before. Of course, I see that he has the murderer's badge on his back. Do you know how it happened? I never heard him speak of it." "Yes, he told us about it one evening, that was before he became starosta.
To which John the son of John replied that the winter had been hard and fuel scarce, that his wife was dead and his children stricken with influenza. "But you have had relief; our good friend the starosta " "Does what he can," grumbled John, "but he dare not do much. The bárins will not let him. The nobles want all the money for themselves.
The cry was taken up by many of the poor wretches present. What material there was in "Paradise" for the infernal regions of Siberia! In vain did Selaski Starosta endeavor to make himself heard. In vain did the older and more conservative among the company advise caution.
He was like you; he was a great bárin, a great noble, and yet he helped the peasants." Paul turned round sharply and shook the man off. "Go," he said, "with the starosta and get what I tell you. A great, strong fellow like you has no business on his knees to any man! I will not help you unless you help yourself. You are a lazy good-for-nothing. Get out!"
True it is that the starosta is the leader of his community during his regime, but therein is the difficulty, for coupled with this power is the further detail of keeping a strict and accurate account of all the business transactions of the year, all the moneys, wages, etc., due the various members for labors performed and services rendered.
The starosta was a timorous man, needing such strong support as his master gave him from time to time. At the great gates of the park they paused, and Paul gave the mayor of Osterno a few last words of advice. While they were standing there the other man who had been following joined them. "Is that you, Steinmetz?" asked Paul, his hand thrust with suspicious speed into his jacket pocket. "Yes."
"Your Excellency," he answered, "I am afraid." "Of what?" The starosta shrugged his narrow shoulders in cringing deprecation. "Excellency, I do not know. There is something in the village something in the whole country. I know not what it is. It is a feeling one cannot see it, one cannot define it; but it is there, like the gleam of water at the bottom of a deep well.
But to quiet the feeling of the starosta he advanced him the 92 roubles, giving the headman his address so that he could return the 92 roubles to the American officer when the British due bill came cash. Brother officers ridiculed the Yank officer for trusting the Russian peasant, who was himself waiting doubtfully on the British.
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