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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. DELILAH. Even while Ivan Yourivitch was conferring with his startled mistress, I saw a tall figure in Kussian uniform?the eternal long gray greatcoat?appear at the room-door, and I was instinctively glancing round for some weapon wherewith to defend me, when to my astonishment Volhonski entered, somewhat splashed with mud certainly and powdered with snow, but whole and well, without a wound, and with a cry of joy Valerie threw herself into his arms. Wholly occupied by his beautiful sister, to whom he was tenderly attached, fully a minute elapsed before he turned to address Madame Tol- stoff and then me. Was it selfishness, was it humanity, was it friendship, or what was the sentiment that inspired me, and caused so much of genuine joy to see Volhonski appear safe and untouched I, who from the trenches had been daily wont to watch with grim satisfaction the murderous ' potting' of the Ruskies from the rifle-pits, and literal showers of legs, arms, and other fragments of poor humanity, by their appearance in the air, respond to the explosion of a well-directed shell He now turned to me with astonishment on recognising my face in that place, and with the uniform of the Rifle Militia. ' By what strange caprice or whirligig of fortune do I find you here?' he exclaimed, as he took my hand, but certainly with a somewhat dubious expression of eye; ' you have not come over to us, I hope, as some of our Poles have lately gone to you ?' 'No, ' I replied, almost laughing at the idea. ' Don't mistake me; I came here as a fugitive, glad to escape you and your confounded Cossacks; but I thank God, Volhonski, that you eluded my pistol on the cliffs yonder.' ' Then it was you, Captain Hardinge, whom I followed so fast and so far from that khan on the Kokoz road...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217140287 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217140289 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 114 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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