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Updated: June 10, 2025
They soon overtook the first troïka, and after going down a slope they came upon a wide cross-road running by the side of a meadow. "Where are we, I wonder," thought Nicolas; "this must be the field and slope by the river. No I do not know where we are! This is all new and unfamiliar to me! God only knows where we are! But no matter!" And smacking his whip with a will, he went straight ahead.
And she adored my father, was afraid of him, and believed in his extraordinary intellectual powers. It got quite dark and the street grew gradually empty. In the house opposite the music stopped. The gate was wide open and out into the street, careering with all its bells jingling, came a troika. It was the engineer and his daughter going for a drive. Time to go to bed!
At the same moment a troïka, with three horses abreast, turned sharply into the Glinki and the two collided with a crash, the occupants flung out on the snow, the frightened animals plunging and rearing in a tangled, inextricable heap. The drivers rushed to the horses' heads.
It is difficult to see what else can be meant by the statement that the heroes of the Troika belong to an order of men no longer seen upon the earth. They belong to an inferior order of gods, according to the peculiar anthropomorphism of the Greeks, in which deity and humanity are so closely mingled that it is difficult to tell where the one begins and the other ends.
At the last moment, when they were all starting for home about seven o'clock, Countess Olga decided she could not face the cold of the open sleigh, and Lord Courtray and she got into her motor instead. It was done so quickly, Tamara was already packed into the troika, and the outside steeds were prancing in their desire to be off.
She began to speak, and he waited gravely for what she would say; but the words froze on her lips when she saw the pistol in his belt that brought back the reality. She shuddered convulsively and clenched her hands. He put on his furs quietly and then opened the door. He lifted her into the troika which was waiting outside.
He dressed elegantly; he drove a dashing troika; he played, and lost more frequently than he won; he took no special pains to shun any form of fashionable dissipation. His money went fast, it is true; but twenty-five thousand rubles was a large sum in those days, and Boris did not inherit his father's expensive constitution.
She went often through strange moments. In the middle of a casual conversation suddenly back would come a wave of remembrance of the dawn drive in the troika, and she would actually quiver with physical emotion as the vivid recollection of the bliss of it would sweep over her. Then she would clench her hands and determine more fiercely than ever to banish such memories.
We’ve heard it before, how often he has told the story at people’s houses!” “And he couldn’t resist doing it now. That’s vanity.” “He is a man with a grievance, he he!” “Yes, and quick to take offense. And there was too much rhetoric, such long sentences.” “Yes, he tries to alarm us, he kept trying to alarm us. Do you remember about the troika?
My new driver now appears and calls out "The troika is ready." Then I pack myself in again among the cushions and rugs and off we speed once more through the darkness and snow.
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