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If I had been asleep, or if the third troika had come immediately after the second, I should have been crushed to death or maimed. It appeared the foremost driver lashed on the horses, while the drivers in the second and the third carts were asleep and did not see us. The collision was followed by the blankest amazement on both sides, then a storm of ferocious abuse.
The boy had already leaped into the troïka and was wrapping the fur robes about his knees. "We shall put in an appearance about the same time, sir," he called back carelessly over his shoulder. "You won't miss anything, not a note, if that will comfort you. Hey, Bobo, go ahead! The concert can't begin without me." "Without you," interrupted the other, "eh, what you?
The muscles are quite sore already, but luckily it is the left arm, otherwise, Bózhe moi , I vow I'd sue you! If it were the fingers now, or the wrist " He took off his fur gloves and examined both hands carefully, one after the other. A scornful look came over the older man's face: "There was no excuse, my friend, for the way your troïka rounded that corner.
From the madhouse I returned late at night in my troika. Two-thirds of the way I had to drive through the forest in the moonlight, and I had a wonderful feeling such as I have not had for a long time, as though I had come back from a tryst. I think that nearness to nature and idleness are essential elements of happiness; without them it is impossible.... MELIHOVO, July, 1894.
Our troika of horses was caparisoned in blue and red leather, lavishly decorated with large metal plaques and with chains which musically replaced portions of the leather straps. Over the neck of the middle horse, who trotted, rose an ornamented arch of wood.
If these proved insufficient they were to apply to the local "Troika," or Labor Conscription Committee.
Now those who decided to continue the feasting all got into their waiting conveyances. With the thermometer at fifteen degrees Reaumur, a coachman's life is not one altogether to be envied in Russia, but apparently custom will make anything endurable. "I know you like the troika, Tamara," Princess Ardácheff said. "So you go with Olga and Gritzko and your friend only be sure you wrap up your head."
"Now this has been foreseen, as everything is with the Master; and his orders are that you shall take this passport which you will find in perfect order, save for the fact that the date has been slightly altered from me as soon as I have got the ladies safely in the troika out on the Tobolsk road, put off the livery of the Tsar, disguise yourself as effectually as may be, and take the first train back to Perm and Nizhni Novgorod as Stepan Bakuinin, fur merchant.
The driver stopped the tired troika at the gate of the only stone-built house that stood at the entrance to the town. The sentry, a Cossack from the Black Sea, hearing the jingle of the bell, cried out, sleepily, in his barbarous voice, "Who goes there?" An under-officer of Cossacks and a headborough came out.
"I will not be your servant," he said at last. "Here, then, I'll show thee," roared the gentleman, "whether thou wilt be my servant or not!" And after having cruelly flogged Iván, he nevertheless ordered that the tróika of Vyátka horses should be placed in his charge, and appointed him a coachman at the stables. Iván submitted, to all appearances; he began to drive as coachman.
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