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What is it you want, little father tea?" He turned into the shop and served his customer, duly inscribing the debt among others in a rough, cheap book. The word soon spread that a carriage was coming along the road from Tver. All the villagers came to the doors of their dilapidated wooden huts. Even the kabaks were emptied for a time.
Nevertheless, the desire indefinite, shapeless was there to kill this woman, who was tall and beautiful, whom Paul Alexis loved. It must be remembered in extenuation that Catrina Lanovitch had lived nearly all her life in the province of Tver. She was not modern at all.
When Novgorod, the haughty, turbulent republic, refused to pay the yearly tribute, they quelled the insurrection and punished the leaders; and when the inhabitants of Tver rose against the Tartars and compelled their Prince to make common cause with them, the wily Muscovite hastened to the Tartar court and received from the Khan the revolted principality, with 50,000 Tartars to support his authority.
Go and tell the envoys from Tver, that I will not receive them: I spoke a word of mercy to them they mocked at it. What do they take me for?... A bundle of rags, which to-day they may trample in the mud, and to-morrow stick up for a scarecrow in their gardens! Or a puppet to bow down to it to-day, and to-morrow to cast it into the mire, with Vuiduibái, father vuiduibái!
"The Count Lanovitch," pursued De Chauxville, "where is he?" "Banished for his connection with the Charity League." "Catrina?" "Catrina is living in the province of Tver we are neighbors she and her mother, the countess." De Chauxville nodded. None of the details really interested him. His indifference was obvious. "Ah! the Countess Lanovitch," he said reflectively, "she was a foolish woman."
For these are the Volga Provinces Samara, Pensa, Voronish, Vintka, and a dozen others. No! Tver the civilized, the prosperous, the manufacturing centre. Osterno is built of wood. Should it once fairly catch alight in a high wind, all that will be left of this town will be a few charred timbers and some dazed human beings.
"A son of my old friend, dear," he cried; "surely you must remember Prince Nicolai Lvovitch? You saw him at at Tver." "I don't remember any Nicolai Lvovitch, Was that your father?" she inquired of the prince. "Yes, but he died at Elizabethgrad, not at Tver," said the prince, rather timidly. "So Pavlicheff told me." "No, Tver," insisted the general; "he removed just before his death.
He stole the papers from Stépan's study and took them to Tver, where his wife was waiting for them. She took them on to Paris and sold them to Vassili. Bamborough began his journey eastward, knowing presumably that he could not escape by the western frontier, but lost his way on the steppe.
"Our theatrical friends the police," he said, "are going to enjoy this. Suppose we prop him up sitting against that tree no one will run away with him and lead his horse into Tver. I will give notice to the police, but I will not do so until you are in the Petersburg train.
He was able to subdue the rich trading-city of Novgorod , which had been connected with the Hanseatic League, and where a party endeavored to bring to pass a union with Poland. He conquered unknown frozen districts in the North, and smaller princedoms, including Tver, in the interior. The empire of the Horde was so broken up that Ivan achieved an almost bloodless triumph, which made Russia free.
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