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"Four minutes " Before he could say more Alan caught sight of a movement among those gathered around the last car at the far end of the depot. "There he is!" he shouted and darted forward. "He sho'ly is," exclaimed Elmer, his white teeth showing, "and Yar's de screw driver and yar's de screws all ready."
He stood at the doors trying to see and to hear what was going on in the private rooms, and it seemed to him that he was somehow playing a mean, contemptible part on a level with the comic singers and those ladies. Then he went to Strelna, but he found none of his circle there, either; and only when on the way home he was again driving up to Yar's, a three-horse sledge noisily overtook him.
They broke Khoda Yar's breast-bone with kicks when he tried to take the rifles; and if we touch this child they will fire and rape and plunder for a month, till nothing remains. Better to send a man back to take the message and get a reward. I say that this child is their God, and that they will spare none of us, nor our women, if we harm him."
'Where are you going? I asked. 'Oh, I must find out what the idiot.... He's drunk, no doubt, God knows what.... Only don't you follow me... we shall see each other to-morrow. Good-bye! And hurriedly pressing my hand, Fustov set off towards Yar's hotel.
When they reached it, they found all the five men, but one, rolled up from top to toe in their tarpaulins, and asleep on the prairie. The one who was awake welcomed them in effusive cow-boy style, and then with a "Wake up, you-uns! Yar's John Fredding an' 'is little woman!" kicked each of his sleeping companions into consciousness with his foot.
'Yar's what I call Wolf Ravine, said Baldy when they had spent some time in looking; about them. 'And be the same towken, where is the goold? inquired Mickey. 'Yes, that there is what I call the important question, added Ethan. 'That it is, of the greatest account, as me grandmither observed, whin she fell off the staaple, and axed whether her pipe was broke.
He longed to find her in another man's arms, and to be rid of this nightmare forever. Fyodor was drinking tea, gulping it noisily. But he, too, got up to go. "Our old father must have got cataract," he said, as he put on his fur coat. "His sight has become very poor." Laptev put on his coat, too, and went out. After seeing his brother part of the way home, he took a sledge and drove to Yar's.
If it was a bee, we should find some of his companions roaming about among the blossoms of the helianthus. "In a short time Harry was heard crying out, `A bee! a bee! and almost at the same instant Frank shouted, `Another! `Hya hya! cried Cudjo, `yar's de oder one see 'im! biz-z-z. Gollies! how he am loaded with de wax!
They broke Khoda Yar's breastbone with kicks when he tried to take the rifles; and if we touch this child they will fire and rape and plunder for a month, till nothing remains. Better to send a man back to take the message and get a reward. I say that this child is their God, and that they will spare none of us, nor our women, if we harm him.
For the sake of peace let them go both, for if he be taken, the regiment will break loose and gut the valley. OUR villages are in the valley, and we shall not escape. That regiment are devils. They broke Khoda Yar's breastbone with kicks when he tried to take the rifles; and if we touch this child they will fire and rape and plunder for a month till nothing remains.
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