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Updated: June 21, 2025
They had the Dream. It made their hearts light and took the weary feeling from their feet. They were on their way. America was a long, long journey, but they had started, and every verst they covered lessened the number that lay between them and the Promised Land. "I am glad the boy spoke to us," said Anna. "And I am glad," said Ivan. "Some day he will come and eat with us in America."
We Come Under French Flag Thanksgiving Day At Verst 455 Exploration And Blockhouse Building First Occupation Of Bolsheozerki Airplane Bombs Our Own Front Line Troops Year's End Push On Plesetskaya Fiasco Nichols Makes Railroad Sector Impregnable Bolo Patrol Blows Up Our Big Six Heavy Drive By Reds At Winter's End "I" Company Relieves French-Russian Force Valorous Conduct Of Men Gives Lie To Charges Of Loss Of Morale.
Just as he passed Gardner at the twelfth verst pole, he found himself and the two detachments of Americans at last completely cut off by a whole battalion of Red Guards fresh from the south of Russia, sent up by Trotsky to brace his Northern Army. For half an hour there raged a fight as intense as was the bitter reality of the emergency to the forty Americans with Gardner in those dugouts.
"Oh, no," she replied with a shake of her head on its sinuous neck; "for I must be collecting my things before I move on towards " "Towards Otchenchiri" "Yes. By now my folk will have gone many a verst in that direction." "And can you walk so far?" "The Holy Mother will help me." Yes, she was to journey in the company of the Mother of God. So no more on the point required to be said.
The second day from Blagoveshchensk we were where the Amoor flows twenty-five versts around a peninsula only one verst wide. Just above this, at the village of Korsackoff, was the foot of another bend of twenty-eight versts with a width of three.
Michael Strogoff was not more than half a verst from the town. "At last!" he murmured. But suddenly Nadia uttered a cry. At the cry Michael stood up on the ice, which was wavering. His hand was extended up the Angara.
Dressing myself quickly, I would tuck a towel and a French novel under my arm, and go off to bathe in the river in the shade of a birch tree which stood half a verst from the house.
Do it as quickly as possible, even if you take my Polkan." In five minutes they brought me a horse, and I galloped off to the commander of the artillery. "Look you, return on foot," whispered the punctilious captain, "else they won't let you through the lines." It was half a verst to the artillery commander's, the whole road ran between the tents.
Well, you must continue for another verst, and then you will see it straight before you, on the right." "On the right?" re-echoed the coachman. "Yes, on the right," affirmed the peasant. "You are on the proper road for Manilovka, but ZAmanilovka well, there is no such place. The house you mean is called Manilovka because Manilovka is its name; but no house at all is called ZAmanilovka.
Except for this the silence of the world around them was eerie; only far away they seemed to hear the persistent rumble of carts on the road. "They're gone! They're all gone! We're left last of all!" and "The Austrians advancing a verst a minute!" He took a last look at the house which had seemed yesterday so absolutely to belong to them and now was already making preparations for its new guests.
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