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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. Uncle Eeoshka was a Cossack who was out of active service, and who lived by himself. His wife, twenty years before, had become converted to Orthodoxy, and had run away from him, and married a Russian sergeant. He had no children. He was not boasting when he said that not long ago he held the first place among the Cossacks of the village. Everybody in the regiment knew him for former bravery. More than one death of Circassians, and even of Russians, was on his soul. He used to go out into the mountains; and he stole from the Russians, and twice had been in prison. The greater part of his life had been passed in hunting in the forests, where he lived for days on a bit of dry bread, and drank nothing but water. To make up for that, when he was in the village he was drunk from morning till night. After coming back from Olenin's, he slept for two hours, and, waking up long before light, lay on his bed, and passed judgment on the man with whom he had got acquainted the night before. The simplicity of Olenjn pleased him greatly, --simplicity in the sense that he did not grudge wine, --and Olenin himself pleased him. He wondered why the Russians were all simple and rich, and why they all knew nothing, and yet were very learned. He thought over with himself these questions, and what he might ask Olenin to give him. The cottage of Uncle Eroshka was tolerably large, and not old; but the absence of a woman was very evident. Contrary to the usual Cossack character for cleanliness, his whole room was dirty, and in the greatest disorder. On the table there lay a blood-stained coat, half a buttered roll, and near them a jay for feeding the falcon. On the benches, in disorder, were shoes, a knife, a dagger, a bag, wet clothes, and rags. In the corner, in a basi...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151428547
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115142854X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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