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And there was the said case on the back of a porter already coming along the gangway. It seemed to me that the porter was rather tottery, owing perhaps to a lengthy absorption of vodka. "Wait a bit!" shouted Ephrinell. Then in good Russian, so as to be better understood, he shouted: "Look out! Look out!" It is good advice, but it is too late. The porter has just made a false step.
"And mind you don't get drunk," added the giver, who himself had not partaken of the vodka. I wonder which of us two could look after himself the better you or I? Anyway I am willing to make the experiment," and he slapped his forehead with mock boastfulness. "But what a pity it is that Semenoff has disappeared! He has gone and completely hidden himself somewhere."
Glass after glass of vodka moistened the capacious throats that had shrieked themselves hoarse, and in the cry of "Down with the Jews!" the other more dangerous cry of "Down with the Nobles!" was for the moment forgotten. It was with difficulty that the Elder of the commune could make himself heard above the din. "My friends," he finally said, "I am afraid we have made bad work of it to-day.
We did not keep the custom; the haymakers and the women used to come into the yard and stay until late in the evening, waiting for vodka, and then they went away cursing. And then Masha used to frown and relapse into silence or whisper irritably to the doctor: "Savages! Barbarians!" Newcomers to the villages were received ungraciously, almost with hostility; like new arrivals at a school.
Whether the system or the salary be at fault it is hard to say, but from whatever cause the fact remains that the parish clergy of the villages are not always all they might be; there are many among them who lead upright lives and gain the respect of their parishioners, but it would be idle to deny that there are many whose thoughts turn more to vodka than piety, the kabak than the Church.
Have you been asleep, Ivan Ivanovitch?" "I have." "And now you have risen?" "Now I have risen. Christ be with you, Ivan Nikiforovitch! How can you sleep until this time? I have just come from the farm. There's very fine barley on the road, charming! and the hay is tall and soft and golden!" "Gorpina!" shouted Ivan Nikiforovitch, "fetch Ivan Ivanovitch some vodka, and some pastry and sour cream!"
Its members solemnly devote all their lives to teaching the poor people to read, think, save, avoid vodka, and seek quietly for such liberty with order as here in America all enjoy. Was that work a crime in Verbitzsky and me? Was it a crime for us to steal to the freight-shed of the Moscow and St. Petersburg Railway that night in December two years ago?
We thank you very humbly." And some cried out gaily and disdainfully: "What's the use of that? If they had given each of us a glass of vodka instead that would be a just favour. For the grain is not for us but for the country Council." "Eh! They do not understand!" exclaimed the receiver, confused. "I'll go down and explain it to them." And he disappeared.
"There's very little vodka left, either," added the soldier. "All right! Damn you! You've still got a couple of roubles. Go and buy what is wanted." "Please, sir, I haven't got any money at all." "How's that? What do you mean by lying?" exclaimed Sarudine, stopping short.
Well, we've talked enough." But Yanson had become silent again. He was again placed in the cell in which he had already sat for a month and to which he had grown accustomed, just as he had become accustomed to everything: to blows, to vodka, to the dismal, snow-covered fields, with their snow-heaps resembling graves.
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