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As he did so, he wheeled about, and shot one mighty clinched fist straight into West's face. This was done so suddenly, so unexpectedly, the man attacked found no opportunity to even throw up a hand in self-defence. The giant Pole flung his whole weight into the crashing blow, and the ex-soldier went down as though struck by a pole-ax.
She was accused of being violent, and of wishing to revenge herself by setting fire to Paris. At length the Revolution broke on France, the Bastille fell, and in that same year an old uncle of Mme. Derues, an ex-soldier of Louis XV., living in Brittany, petitioned for his niece's release. He protested her innocence, and begged that he might take her to his home and restore her to her children.
An ex-soldier? A sick man? A fat butcher? A sentimental, but dirty druggist? Of all the men in the world, and while coming here I imagined all possible types, that I should have met you, Alex! You have always meant so much to me. I have always liked you. When I saw you last in Petrograd I tried to get you into my affairs. Why? I don't know. You have no ambitions, you have no character, nothing.
Is there anything I can do for you?" "Yes. You can give me a job." Gregory smiled at the frankness of the answer. "I might at that," he said. "Can you speak Russian or Italian?" The ex-soldier shook his head as Gregory went on: "What I need more than anything else just now is an interpreter. I have a lot of foreigners working outside cleaning up.
Of course, so much per man," said the good natured lame man with the white strips of linen round his legs. Every one confirmed this statement, considering it satisfactory. "So much per man? Then are the servants attached to the house also to have a share?" Nekhludoff asked. "Oh, no," said the ex-soldier, trying to appear bold and merry. But the tall, reasonable man would not agree with him.
But I have no great opinion even of myself." The ex-soldier glanced distrustfully at the newcomer. Then he remarked: "What you say is cant, sheer Jesuitism. It is fellows like THOSE, rather, that ought to have a poor opinion of themselves." To this the other made no reply merely he put a piece of bread into his mouth. For a moment or two the ex-soldier eyed him frowningly.
She was virtuous, besides; and I had some respect for my mother's house, which is more than can be said of the blackguards of the present day. "Now, it happened that my man-servant, the ex-soldier, the old farmer you have just seen, fell madly in love with this girl, perfectly daft. The first thing we noticed was that he forgot everything, he paid no attention to anything.
For it is on such nights as that that the soul dons its finest raiment, and trembles like a bride at the expectation of something glorious. "You say that she had a squint?" presently I heard Vasili continue in an undertone, and the ex-soldier slowly reply: "Yes, she had one from childhood upwards she had one from the day when a fall from a cart caused her to injure her eyes.
The reason why I told the ex-soldier that I was from Kursk was that I neither liked him nor cared to tell him the whole truth-he was not worth the trouble. "And why are you on your travels?" "For the reason that I am so I can say no more. I look back from a given place, and wave my hand, and am gone again as a feather floats before the wind."
No my uncle was murdered! Now I want to know all I can get to know of his movements last night. And first I think we'll hear what the caretaker can tell us. Hancock," he continued, turning to an elderly man who looked like an ex-soldier, "I understand you found my uncle's body?" The caretaker, obviously much upset by the affairs of the morning, pulled himself up to attention.
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