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Updated: June 10, 2025
Now a smart troika would dash by us, its driver shouting as he passed, when our Jehu, stimulating his steeds by loud cries and frequent applications of the whip, would vainly strive to overtake his brother coachman. Old and young alike seemed like octogenarians, their short thick beards and mustaches being white as hoar-frost from the congealed breath.
And those who preferred or predicted its demise, envisioning a troika in the seat of Hammarskjold or Red China inside the Assembly have seen instead a new vigor, under a new Secretary General and a fully independent Secretariat.
At the end of five minutes the Prince, raging like a school-boy, left the house coatless, wearing only a common felt hat, and in that guise drove for more than two miles in the open troika. It was a performance not unique; but it was destined to be his last. Prince Michael was carried home from the council and put to bed, burning with fever.
He had been sent to his new master; his master had summoned him to his study and announced to him that he was to serve as his coachman, that he entrusted him with a tróika of Vyátka horses, and that he should exact a strict account from him if he treated them badly, and, in general, if he were not punctual. "I'm not fond of jesting," he said.
He would not only fix the date of Homer positively in the twelfth century B. C., but he regards the Trojan war as a purely historical event, of which Homer is the authentic historian and the probable eye-witness. Nay, he even takes the word of the poet as proof conclusive of the historical character of events happening several generations before the Troika, according to the legendary chronology.
A troika came jingling along the highroad, and the rough voices of the pilgrims as they talked could be distinctly heard. "We've come out a little too early," said Ivanoff. Sanine looked round about him, contented and happy. "Well, let us wait a while," he replied. They sat down on the sand, close to the hedge, and lit their cigarettes.
In the matter of samovars, especially, there is a wide range of choice in this cradle of "the portable domestic hearth," although there are only two or three among the myriad manufacturers whose goods are famed for that solidity of brass and tin which insures against dents, fractures, and poisoning. During the morning we ordered round a troika from the posting-house. It did not arrive.
That early on the morrow the stove was to be lit in the hut by the lake, where at the time when the woodcock came in quantities he sometimes spent the night waiting for the dawn. "And see that there is fodder for the horses," he added. "And that Stépan drives my troika with the blacks, and let the brown team be ready, too, but neither of these to come round until the grays have gone.
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