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Speaker 1: Chapter eleven of the Daughter of the Commandant by Alexander Pushkin,
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Speaker 1: translated by Missus Milner Home. This LibriVox recording is in
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Speaker 1: the public domain recording by Kevin Davidson. The rebel camp.
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Speaker 1: I left the general and made haste to return home.
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Speaker 1: Seviyelitch greeted me with his usual remonstrances. What pleasure can
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Speaker 1: you find, sir, in fighting with these drunken robbers? Is
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Speaker 1: it the business of a boyard? The stars are not
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Speaker 1: always propitious, and you will only get killed for naught. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you are making war with Turks are swedes. But
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Speaker 1: I am ashamed even to talk of these fellows with
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Speaker 1: whom you are fighting, I interrupted his speech. How much
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Speaker 1: money have I in? All? Quite enough, replied he with
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Speaker 1: a complacent and satisfied air. It was all very well
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Speaker 1: for the rascals to hunt everywhere, but I overreached them,
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Speaker 1: thus saying, he drew from his pocket a long knitted purse,
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Speaker 1: all full of silver pieces. Very well, Sevielitch said, I
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Speaker 1: give me half of what you have there, and keep
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Speaker 1: the rest for yourself. I am about to start for
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Speaker 1: Fort bilagorsk Ah. My father, Pyotrandretch cried my good follower,
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Speaker 1: in a tremulous voice. Do you not fear God? How
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Speaker 1: do you mean to travel? Now that all the roads
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Speaker 1: be blocked by the robbers? At least take pity on
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Speaker 1: your parents. If you have none on yourself, where do
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Speaker 1: you wish to go? Wherefore wait a bit. The troops
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Speaker 1: will come and take all the robbers. Then you can
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Speaker 1: go to the four winds. My resolution was fixed. It
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Speaker 1: is too late to reflect, I said to the old man.
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Speaker 1: I must go. It is impossible for me not to go.
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Speaker 1: Do not make yourself wretched, Savielitch. God is good. We
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Speaker 1: shall perhaps meet again. Mind you be not ashamed to
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Speaker 1: spend my money. Do not be a miser by all
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Speaker 1: you have need of, even if you pay three times
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Speaker 1: the value of things. I make you a present to
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Speaker 1: the money. If in three days I be not back.
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Speaker 1: What's that your saying, sir broke in Savilitch, that I
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Speaker 1: shall consent to let you go alone? For I don't
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Speaker 1: dream of asking me to do so. If you have
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Speaker 1: resolved to go, I will even go along with you
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Speaker 1: were it on foot. But I will not forsake you
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Speaker 1: that I should stay snugly behind a stone wall. Why
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Speaker 1: I should be mad? Do you please, sir, But I
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Speaker 1: do not leave you. I knew it was not possible
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Speaker 1: to contradict Sevielitch, and I allowed him to make ready
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Speaker 1: for our departure. In half an hour I was in
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Speaker 1: the saddle on my horse, and Sevielitch on a thin
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Speaker 1: and lame geron, which a townsman had given him for nothing,
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Speaker 1: having no longer anything wherewith to feed it. We gained
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Speaker 1: the town gates, the sentries let us pass, and at
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Speaker 1: last we were out of Orenburg. Night was beginning to fall.
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Speaker 1: The road I had to follow passed before the little
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Speaker 1: village of Beard, held by Pugatchov. This road was deep
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Speaker 1: in snow and nearly hidden, but across the step were
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Speaker 1: to be seen tracks of horses. Each day renewed, I
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Speaker 1: was trotting. Sevilitch could hardly keep up with me, and
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Speaker 1: cried to me every moment, not so fast, sir, in
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Speaker 1: Heaven's name, not so fast, my confounded geron cannot catch
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Speaker 1: up to your long legged devil. Why are you in
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Speaker 1: such a hurry? Are we bound to a feast? Rather?
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Speaker 1: Have we our next? Under the axe? Pyotranrech Oh, my father,
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Speaker 1: pyot vanrech Oh, Lord, this Boyar's child will die and
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Speaker 1: all for nothing. We soon saw twinkling the fires of Beard.
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Speaker 1: We were approaching the deep ravines, which served as natural
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Speaker 1: fortifications to the little settlement. Sevielitch, though keeping up to
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Speaker 1: me tolerably well, did not give over his lamentable supplications.
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Speaker 1: I was hoping to pass safely by this unfriendly place,
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Speaker 1: when all at once I made out in the dark
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Speaker 1: five peasants armed with big sticks. It was an advance
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Speaker 1: guard of Pugatchov's camp. They shouted to us, who goes there?
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Speaker 1: Not knowing the password. I wanted to pass them without reply,
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Speaker 1: but in the same moment they surrounded me, and one
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Speaker 1: of them seized my horse by the bridle. I took
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Speaker 1: my sword and struck the peasant on the head. His
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Speaker 1: high cap saved his life. Still he staggered and let
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Speaker 1: go the bridle. The others were frightened and jumped aside.
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Speaker 1: Taking advantage of their scare, I put spurs to my
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Speaker 1: horse and dashed off at full gallop. The fast increasing
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Speaker 1: darkness of the night might have saved me from any
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Speaker 1: more difficulties. Then, looking back, I discovered that Sevielitch was
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Speaker 1: no longer with me. Poor old man with his lame horse,
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Speaker 1: had not been able to shake off the robbers. What
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Speaker 1: was I to do? After waiting a few minutes, and
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Speaker 1: becoming certain that he had been stopped, I turned my
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Speaker 1: horse's head to go to his help. As I approached
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Speaker 1: the ravine, I heard from a far confused shouts and
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Speaker 1: the voice of my Sevielitch. Quickening my pace, I soon
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Speaker 1: came upon the peasants of the advance guard who had
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Speaker 1: stopped me a few minutes previously. They had surrounded t.
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Speaker 1: Sevielitch and had obliged the poor old man to get
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Speaker 1: off his horse, and were making ready to bind him.
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Speaker 1: The sight of me filled them with joy. They rushed
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Speaker 1: upon me with shouts, and in a moment I was
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Speaker 1: off my horse. One of them, who appeared to be
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Speaker 1: the leader, told me they were going to take me
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Speaker 1: before the Tsar, and our father added, he will decide
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Speaker 1: whether you are to be hung at once, or if
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Speaker 1: we are to wait for God's sunshine. I offered no resistance.
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Speaker 1: Serviyelitch followed my example, and the sentries led us away
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Speaker 1: in triumph. We crossed the ravine to enter the settlement.
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Speaker 1: All the peasants houses were lit up, all around arose
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Speaker 1: shouts and noise. I met a crowd of people in
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Speaker 1: the street, but no one paid any attention to us
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Speaker 1: or recognized in me an officer of Orenburg. We were
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Speaker 1: taken to nisba, built in the angle of two streets.
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Speaker 1: Near the door were several barrels of wine and two cannons.
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Speaker 1: Here is the palace, said one of the peasants. We
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Speaker 1: will go and nnanchu. He entered the ezba. I glanced
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Speaker 1: at Sevielitch. The old man was making the sign of
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Speaker 1: the cross and muttering prayers. We waited a long time.
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Speaker 1: At last the peasant reappeared and said to me, come,
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Speaker 1: our father has given orders that the officer be brought in.
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Speaker 1: I entered the ezba, or the palace, as the peasant
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Speaker 1: called it. It was lighted by two tallow candles, and
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Speaker 1: the walls were hung with gold paper. All the rest
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Speaker 1: of the furniture, the benches, the table, the little washstand
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Speaker 1: jug hung on a cord, the towel on a nail,
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Speaker 1: the oven fork standing up in a corner, the wooden
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Speaker 1: shelf laden with earthen pots. All was just as in
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Speaker 1: any other zba. Pugachov sat beneath the holy pictures in
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Speaker 1: a red kaftan and high cap, his hand on his thigh.
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Speaker 1: Around him stood several of his principal chiefs with a
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Speaker 1: forced expression of submission and respect. It was easy to
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Speaker 1: see that the news of the arrival of an officer
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Speaker 1: from Ugenburg had aroused a great curiosity among the rebels,
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Speaker 1: and that they were prepared to receive me in pomp.
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Speaker 1: Pugachov recognized me at the first glance. His feigned gravity
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Speaker 1: disappeared at once. Ah, it's your lordship, said he, with liveliness.
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Speaker 1: How are you, What in Heaven's name brings you here?
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Speaker 1: I replied that I had started on a journey on
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Speaker 1: my own business, and that his people had stopped me.
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Speaker 1: And on what business? Asked he? I knew not what
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Speaker 1: to say. Pugachov, thinking I did not want to explain
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Speaker 1: myself before witnesses, made a sign to his comrades to
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Speaker 1: go away. All obeyed, except two who did not offer
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Speaker 1: to stir speak boldly before these, said Pugachov, hide nothing
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Speaker 1: from them. I threw a side glance upon these two
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Speaker 1: confederates of the Usurper. One of them, a little old man,
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Speaker 1: meager and bent with a scanty gray beard, had nothing
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Speaker 1: remarkable about him except a broad blue ribbon worn cross
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Speaker 1: ways over his kaftan of thick gray cloth. But I
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Speaker 1: shall never forget his companion. He was tall, powerfully built,
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Speaker 1: and appeared to be about forty five. A thick red beard,
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Speaker 1: piercing gray eyes, a nose without nostrils, and marks of
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Speaker 1: the hot iron on his forehead and on his cheeks
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Speaker 1: gave to his broad face seamed with small pox a
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Speaker 1: strange and indefinable expression. He wore a red shirt, a
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Speaker 1: kirgheeze dress, and wide cossack trousers. The first as I
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Speaker 1: afterwards learnt, was the deserter corporal bile Bororov. The other,
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Speaker 1: Athanasius Sokolov, nicknamed Klopusha, was a criminal condemned to the
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Speaker 1: minds of Siberia, whence he had escaped three times in
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Speaker 1: spite of the feelings which then agitated me. This company,
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Speaker 1: wherein I was thus unexpectedly thrown, greatly impressed me. But
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Speaker 1: Bukuchov soon recalled to me myself by his question, speak
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Speaker 1: on what business did you leave Hrenburg. A strange idea
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Speaker 1: occurred to me. It seemed to me that providence in
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Speaker 1: bringing me a second time before Pugochov opened to me
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Speaker 1: a way of executing my project, I resolved to seize
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Speaker 1: the opportunity, and, without considering any longer what course I
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Speaker 1: should pursue, I replied to Pugachov, I was going to
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Speaker 1: Fort Bila Gorsk to deliver there an orphan who is
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Speaker 1: being oppressed? Pugatchov's eyes flashed. Who among my people would
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Speaker 1: dare to harm an orphan? Cried? He? Were he ever
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Speaker 1: so brazen faced? He should never escape my vengeance? Speak
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Speaker 1: who is the guilty one? Schabrin replied, I he keeps endurance,
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Speaker 1: the same young girl whom you saw with the priest's wife,
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Speaker 1: and he wants to force her to become his wife.
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Speaker 1: I'll give him a lesson, Master Schwabrin, cried Pugachov with
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Speaker 1: a fierce air. He shall learn what it is to
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Speaker 1: do as he pleases under me, and to abreast my people.
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Speaker 1: I'll hang him. Bid me to speak a word, broke
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Speaker 1: in Clopusha in a hoarse voice. You are too hasty
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Speaker 1: in giving shriveling command of the fort, and now you
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Speaker 1: are too hasty in hanging him. You have already offended
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Speaker 1: the Cossacks by giving them a gentleman as a leader.
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Speaker 1: Do not therefore now affront the gentleman by executing them
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Speaker 1: on the first accusation. They need neither to be overwhelmed
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Speaker 1: with favors nor pitied. The little old man with the
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Speaker 1: blue ribbon now said in his turn, there would be
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Speaker 1: no harm in hanging Schrabin. Neither would there be any
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Speaker 1: harm in croft examining the officers. Why has he deigned
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Speaker 1: to pay us a visit? If he do not recognize
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Speaker 1: you as Czar, he needs not ask justice of you. If,
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Speaker 1: on the other hand, he do recognize you, wherefore then
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Speaker 1: has he stayed in Wortenburg until now, in the midst
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Speaker 1: of your enemies? Will you order that he be tried
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Speaker 1: by fire? It would appear that his lordship is sent
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Speaker 1: to us by the generals to Noorremburg. The logic of
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Speaker 1: the old rascal appeared plausible even to me. An involuntary
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Speaker 1: shudder thrilled through me as I remembered in whose hands
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Speaker 1: I was. Pogatchov saw my disquiet. Eh, your lordship, said
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Speaker 1: he winking. It appears to me I feel Marshal is right.
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Speaker 1: What do you think of it? The banter of Pugachov
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Speaker 1: in some measure restored me to myself. I quietly replied
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Speaker 1: that I was in his power and that he could
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Speaker 1: do with me as he listed. Very well, said Pogachov.
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Speaker 1: Now tell me in what state is your town? Thank God,
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Speaker 1: replied I. All in good order. In good order, repeated Pogashov,
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Speaker 1: And the people are dying of hunger. There the usurper
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Speaker 1: spoke the truth, but according to the duty imposed on
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Speaker 1: me by my oath, I assured him as a false report,
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Speaker 1: and that Orenberg was amply victualled. You see, cried the
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Speaker 1: little old man. That he is deceiving you. All the
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Speaker 1: deserters are unanimous in declaring famine and plague in Urreenburg.
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Speaker 1: That they are eating carrion. There is a dish of
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Speaker 1: honor that these lordship athurs the thirties abundance of all.
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Speaker 1: If you wish to hang shriveling, I only seeing gallows
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Speaker 1: these lads, so that they need have naught well to
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Speaker 1: would approached each other. The words of the confounded old
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Speaker 1: man seemed to have shaken Pubuchov. Happily, Clopusha began to
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Speaker 1: contradict his companion. Hold your tongue, Thaumich, said he, you
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Speaker 1: only think of hanging and strangling. It certainly suits you
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Speaker 1: well to play the hero. Already you have one foot
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Speaker 1: in the grave, and you want to kill others? Have
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Speaker 1: you not enough blood on your conscience? But thought you
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Speaker 1: athaid your filth, retorted Billeborov. Wherefore thin this pity? Without
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Speaker 1: a doubt, replied Clopusha, I am also a sinner. And
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Speaker 1: this hand he closed his ebony fist, and turning back
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Speaker 1: his sleeve, displayed his hairy arm. And this hand is
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Speaker 1: guilty of having shed Christian blood. But I killed my
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Speaker 1: enemy and not my host, on the free highway and
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Speaker 1: in the dark wood, but not the house and behind
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Speaker 1: the stove, with axe and club, neither with old women's gossip.
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Speaker 1: The old man averted his head and muttered between his teeth, pranded,
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Speaker 1: why are you muttering? Their old owl, rejoined Clopusha, I'll
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Speaker 1: brand you. Just wait a bit. Your turn will come
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Speaker 1: by heaven. I hope some day you may smell the
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Speaker 1: hot pinchers. Until then, have a care that I do
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Speaker 1: not tear out your ugly beard. Gentlemen, said Pugatchov with dignity.
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Speaker 1: Stop quarreling. It would not be a great misfortune if
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Speaker 1: all the mangy curs of Orenburg dangled their legs beneath
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Speaker 1: the same cross bar. But it would be a pity
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Speaker 1: if our good dogs took to biding each other. Klopusha
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Speaker 1: and bill Borov said nothing and exchanged black looks. I
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Speaker 1: felt it was necessary to change the subject of the interview,
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Speaker 1: which might end in a very disagreeable manner for me.
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Speaker 1: Turning toward Pugachrov, I said to him, smiling, Ah, I
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Speaker 1: have forgotten to thank you for your horse and Touloup.
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Speaker 1: Had it not been for you, I should never have
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Speaker 1: reached the town, for I should have died of cold
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Speaker 1: on the journey. My stratagem succeeded. Pugatchov became good humored.
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Speaker 1: The beauty of the debt is the payment, said he,
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Speaker 1: with his usual wink. Now tell me the whole story.
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Speaker 1: What have you to do with this young girl whom
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Speaker 1: Schwabrin is persecuting. Has she not hooked your young affections? Eh,
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Speaker 1: she is my betrothed, I replied, as I observed the
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Speaker 1: favorable change taking place at Pugachov, and seeing no risk
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Speaker 1: in telling him the truth. Your betrothed, cried Pugatchov, Why
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Speaker 1: didn't you tell me before we will marry you and
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Speaker 1: have a fine junket at your wedding. Then, turning to
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Speaker 1: Billebororov Listenfield Marshal, he said, we are old friends his
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Speaker 1: lordship and me. Let us sit down to supper tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: We will see what is to be done with him.
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Speaker 1: One's brains are clearer in the morning than by night.
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Speaker 1: I should willingly have refused the proposed honor, but I
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Speaker 1: could not get out of it. Two young Cossack girls,
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Speaker 1: children of the Master of the ease Bah laid the
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Speaker 1: table with white cloth, brought bread, fish, soup, and big
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Speaker 1: jugs of wine and beer. Thus, for the second time
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Speaker 1: I found myself at the table of Pugachov and his
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Speaker 1: terrible companions. The orgy of which I became the involuntary witness,
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Speaker 1: went on till far into the night. At last, drunkenness
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Speaker 1: overcame the guests. Pugachov fell asleep in his place, and
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Speaker 1: his companions rose, making me a sign to leave him.
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Speaker 1: I went out with them by the order of Klopusha.
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Speaker 1: The sentry took me to the lock up, where I
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Speaker 1: found Sevilitch, and I was left alone with him under
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Speaker 1: lock and key. My retainer was so astounded by the
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Speaker 1: turn affairs had taken that he did not address a
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Speaker 1: single question to me. He lay down in the dark,
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Speaker 1: and for a long while I heard him moan and lament.
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Speaker 1: At last, however, he began to snore, and as for me,
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Speaker 1: I gave myself up to thoughts which did not allow
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Speaker 1: me to close my eyes for a moment. Ball night.
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Speaker 1: On the morrow morning, Pugatchov sent some one to call me.
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Speaker 1: I went to his house. Before his door stood a
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Speaker 1: kibitka with three Tatar horses. The crowd filled the street. Pugatchov,
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Speaker 1: whom I met in the anteroom, was dressed in a
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Speaker 1: traveling suit, a pelisse and Kirghe's cap. His guests of
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Speaker 1: yesterday evening surrounded him and wore a submissive air, which
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Speaker 1: contrasted strongly with what I had witnessed the previous evening.
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Speaker 1: Pugatchov gaily bid me good morning and ordered me to
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Speaker 1: seat myself beside him in the kibitka. We took our
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Speaker 1: places to Fort Piligorsk, said Pugatchov to the robust tartar
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Speaker 1: driver who standing guided the team. My heart beat violently.
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Speaker 1: The horses dashed forward. The little bell tinkled. The kibitka
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Speaker 1: bounded across the snow. Stop. Stop, cried a voice which
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Speaker 1: I knew but too well, and I saw Savillitch running
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Speaker 1: towards us. Pugachov bid the man stop. Oh, my father,
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Speaker 1: pyotrandretch cried, my follower, don't forsake me in my own
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Speaker 1: old age among the rab baha old owl, said Pugachov.
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Speaker 1: So God brings us together again. Here, sit yourself in front.
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Speaker 1: Thanks sar, thanks, my own father repeated, severely, taking his seat.
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Speaker 1: May God give you a hundred years of life for
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Speaker 1: having reassured a poor old man. I shall pray God
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Speaker 1: all my life for you, and I shall never talk
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Speaker 1: about the hair skin touloup. This hair skin tloop might
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Speaker 1: end at last by making Pugachov seriously angry. But the
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Speaker 1: usurper either did not hear or pretended not to hear
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Speaker 1: this ill judged remark. The horses again galloped, the people
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Speaker 1: stopped in the street, and each one saluted us, bowing low.
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Speaker 1: Pugatchov bent his head right and left. In a moment,
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Speaker 1: we were out of the village and were making our
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Speaker 1: course over a well marked road. What I felt may
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Speaker 1: be easily imagined in a few hours I should see
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Speaker 1: her again, whom I had thought lost to me forever.
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Speaker 1: I imagine to myself the moment of our reunion. But
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Speaker 1: I also thought of the man in whose hands lay
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Speaker 1: my destiny, and whom a strange concourse of events bound
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Speaker 1: to me by a mysterious link. I recalled the rough, cruelty,
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Speaker 1: and bloody habits of him who was disposed to prove
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Speaker 1: the defender of my love. Pugatchov did not know she
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Speaker 1: was the daughter of Captain Mironov. Shabrin, driven to bay,
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Speaker 1: was capable of telling him all, and Pugatchov might learn
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Speaker 1: the truth in other ways, and then what would become
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Speaker 1: of Mariya. At this thought, a shudder ran through my body,
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Speaker 1: and my hair seemed to stand on end. All At
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Speaker 1: once Pugachov broke upon my reflections. What does your lordship,
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Speaker 1: said he deign to think about? How can you expect
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Speaker 1: me to be thinking? Replied I, I am an officer
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Speaker 1: and a gentleman. But yesterday I was waging war with you,
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Speaker 1: and now I am traveling with you in the same carriage,
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Speaker 1: And the whole happiness of my life depends on you.
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Speaker 1: What said Pugatchov were you afraid. I made reply that,
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Speaker 1: having already received my life at his hands, I trust
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Speaker 1: it not merely in his good nature, but in his help.
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Speaker 1: And you are right. For God, you are right, resumed
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Speaker 1: the Usurper. You saw that my merry men looked askance
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Speaker 1: at you even to day. The little old man wanted
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Speaker 1: to prove indubitably to me that you were a spy
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Speaker 1: and should be put to the torture and hung. But
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Speaker 1: I would not agree, added he, lowering his voice, lest
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Speaker 1: Sevilitch and the Tatar should hear him, because I bore
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Speaker 1: in mind your glass of wine and your tuloup. You
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Speaker 1: see clearly that I am not bloodthirsty, as your comrades
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Speaker 1: would make out. Remembering the taking of Fort Billi Gorsk,
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Speaker 1: I did not think wise to contradict him, and I
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Speaker 1: said nothing. What do they say of me in Ourenburg,
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Speaker 1: asked Pugatchov, after a short silence. Well, it is said
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Speaker 1: that you are not easy to get the better of.
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Speaker 1: You will agree, we have had our hands full with you.
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Speaker 1: The face of the Usurper expressed the satisfaction of self love. Yes,
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Speaker 1: he said, with a glorious air, I am a great warrior.
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Speaker 1: Do they know in Aurenburg the Battle of Yuzhev. Forty
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Speaker 1: generals were killed, four armies made prisoners. Do you think
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Speaker 1: the King of Prussia is about my strength? This boasting
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Speaker 1: of the robber rather amused me. What do you think yourself?
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Speaker 1: I said to him, could you beat Frederic Fyodor Fyodorovitch? Eh?
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Speaker 1: Why not? I can beat your generals, And your generals
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Speaker 1: have beaten him. Until now my arms have been victorious.
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Speaker 1: Wait a bit, only wait a bit. You will see
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Speaker 1: something when I shall march on Moscow? Are you thinking
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Speaker 1: of marching on Moscow? The usurper appeared to reflect. Then
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Speaker 1: he said half aloud. God knows my way is straight.
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Speaker 1: I have little freedom of action. My followers don't obey me.
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Speaker 1: They are marauders. I have to keep a sharp look
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Speaker 1: out at the first reverse. They would save their necks
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Speaker 1: with my head. Well, I said to Pugatchov, would it
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Speaker 1: not be better to forsake them yourself? Here? It be
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Speaker 1: too late in the throw yourself on the mercy the Tsarina.
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Speaker 1: Pugashovs smiled bitterly. No, he said, the day of repentance
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Speaker 1: is past and gone. They will not give me grace.
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Speaker 1: I must go on as I have begun. Who knows it?
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Speaker 1: May be Grishka or Tippef certainly became Tzar at Moscow.
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Speaker 1: You know his end. He was cast out of a window.
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Speaker 1: He was massacred, burnt, and his ashes blown abroad at
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Speaker 1: the cannon's mouth, to the four winds of heaven. The
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Speaker 1: Tatar began to hum a plaintive song, seviyelitch fast asleep,
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Speaker 1: oscillated from one side to the other. Arkibitka was passing
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Speaker 1: quickly over the wintry road. All at once I saw
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Speaker 1: a little village I knew well, with a palisade in
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Speaker 1: a belfry on the rugged bank of the Yayik. A
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Speaker 1: quarter of an hour afterwards, we were entering Fort Beligorsk.
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