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Rid of that white, hirsute mask, so associated with age, Stroganoff might have been twenty years younger. I said so, but it did not allay his yearning. "I am well enough," he said, "because I have not dissipated for thirty years. I turned a leaf, as did Leo Nikolaievitch, after 'War and Peace. Now I feel myself slipping into the grave."
There were agents of Lee and Jeff Davis in New York seeking sailors. They offered lots of money, thousands, and I went along, smuggled into the South by an underground road." Stroganoff threw away the shreds of tobacco, now a mere fiery wafer that threatened his mouth's seine of silver strands. He put his hand in his Prince Albert and scratched his stomach. "Mr.
This led to a discussion of native traits, and he was caustic in his castigation of the Tahitians. He asked me my name and what brought me to Tahiti; and when, wanting to be as honest-spoken as he, I said, "Romance, adventure," he burst out that I was crazy. "I have been here seventeen years," he said bitterly "me, Ivan Stroganoff, who was once happy as secretary to the governor of Irkutsk!
The stately pile, and the pompous air of the big, gold-laced Swiss lounging at the entrance on the Nevsky, remind us that the Stroganoff family has been a power in Russian history since the middle of the sixteenth century.
"Please, please, let me talk," Ivan Stroganoff interrupted. "What I say is true, nevertheless. The Tahitian has not one good quality. He is not to be compared with the American negro for any desirable trait." "Do you know the negro?" I asked. The old man grunted. He relit his cigar, now only an inch long, and said: "I was on the Merrimac when she fought the Monitor in two engagements.
Chief Tetuanui's word was his bond because he had learned that square-dealing brought him peace of mind, but other natives had found out that to cheat the white man first was the only possible way of keeping even with him. The maxim of the king of Apamama, quoted by Ivan Stroganoff, was pertinent. Hospitality was as sacred to the Tahitians as to the old Irish.
That sacrée bête wore a pareu in town because the law compelled him to, but, monsieur, on the road, in his aerial resort, he and all his disciples were as naked as " "I have seen artistes at the music-halls of Paris," I finished. "Exactement," he spluttered. "Are we to let Tahiti rival Paris?" Ivan Stroganoff I met two or three times a month.
The leaders of the Voltaireans were two noblemen, named, respectively, Stroganoff and Schuvaloff.
"This divine release from the common ways of men can be found only through art," Stroganoff would apostrophize. "The final and only true solution of life is to be found in the life of the saint. True morality passes through virtue, which is rooted in sympathy into asceticism. Renunciation only offers a complete release from the evils and terrors of existence."
Stroganoff combed his whiskers with a twig of the flamboyant tree under which we sat. He glared at me. "Generous! If you have money they will overwhelm you with presents, looking for a double return; but if you are poor, they will treat you as dirt under their feet. I know, for I am poor, and I live among them.
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