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They were taking fifty-four hounds, with six hunt attendants and whippers-in.


Besides the family, there were eight borzoi kennelmen and more than forty borzois, so that, with the borzois on the leash belonging to members of the family, there were about a hundred and thirty dogs and twenty horsemen.


Simon sighed and stooped to straighten the leash a young borzoi had entangled; the count too sighed and, noticing ... took a pinch.


"Back!" cried Simon to a borzoi that was pushing forward out of the wood.


The count started and dropped the snuffbox.


Nastasya Ivanovna dismounted to pick it up.


The count and Simon were looking at him.


"Karay, ulyulyu!.


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" he shouted, looking round for the old borzoi who was now his only hope.


Karay, with all the strength age had left him, stretched himself to the utmost and, watching the wolf, galloped heavily aside to intercept it.


But the quickness of the wolf's lope and the borzoi's slower pace made it plain that Karay had miscalculated.


Nicholas could already see not far in front of him the wood where the wolf would certainly escape should she reach it.


But, coming toward him, he saw hounds and a huntsman galloping almost straight at the wolf.


There was still hope.


A long, yellowish young borzoi, one Nicholas did not know, from another leash, rushed impetuously at the wolf from in front and almost knocked her over.


But the wolf jumped up more quickly than anyone could have expected and, gnashing her teeth, flew at the yellowish borzoi, which, with a piercing yelp, fell with its head on the ground, bleeding from a gash in its side.


Thanks to the delay caused by this crossing of the wolf's path, the old dog with its felted hair hanging from its thigh was within five paces of it.


As if aware of her danger, the wolf turned her eyes on Karay, tucked her tail yet further between her legs, and increased her speed.


But here Nicholas only saw that something happened to Karay-the borzoi was suddenly on the wolf, and they rolled together down into a gully just in front of them.


The huntsman standing in the hollow moved and loosed his borzois, and Nicholas saw a queer, short-legged red fox with a fine brush going hard across the field.


The borzois bore down on it.


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Now they drew close to the fox which began to dodge between the field in sharper and sharper curves, trailing its brush, when suddenly a strange white borzoi dashed in followed by a black one, and everything was in confusion; the borzois formed a star-shaped figure, scarcely swaying their bodies and with tails turned away from the center of the group.


Two huntsmen galloped up to the dogs; one in a red cap, the other, a stranger, in a green coat.


"Yes, she's fast enough," replied Nicholas, and thought: "If only a full-grown hare would cross the field now I'd show you what sort of borzoi she is," and turning to his groom, he said he would give a ruble to anyone who found a hare.


"Or being upset because someone else's borzoi and not mine catches something.


All I care about is to enjoy seeing the chase, is it not so, Count? For I consider that.


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" "A-tu!" came the long-drawn cry of one of the borzoi whippers-in, who had halted.


He stood on a knoll in the stubble, holding his whip aloft, and again repeated his long-drawn cry, "A-tu!" (This call and the uplifted whip meant that he saw a sitting hare.


) But before the whip could reply, the hare, scenting the frost coming next morning, was unable to rest and leaped up.


The pack on leash rushed downhill in full cry after the hare, and from all sides the borzois that were not on leash darted after the hounds and the hare.


All the hunt, who had been moving slowly, shouted, "Stop!" calling in the hounds, while the borzoi whips, with a cry of "A-tu!" galloped across the field setting the borzois on the hare.


The tranquil Ilagin, Nicholas, Natasha, and "Uncle" flew, reckless of where and how they went, seeing only the borzois and the hare and fearing only to lose sight even for an instant of the chase.


The hare they had started was a strong and swift one.


When he jumped up he did not run at once, but pricked his ears listening to the shouting and trampling that resounded from all sides at once.


He took a dozen bounds, not very quickly, letting the borzois gain on him, and, finally having chosen his direction and realized his danger, laid back his ears and rushed off headlong.


He had been lying in the stubble, but in front of him was the autumn sowing where the ground was soft.


The two borzois of the huntsman who had sighted him, having been the nearest, were the first to see and pursue him, but they had not gone far before Ilagin's r Conversation of this kind, interesting to no one yet unavoidable, continued all through teatime.


All the grown-up members of the family were assembled near the round tea table at which Sonya presided beside the samovar.


The children with their tutors and governesses had had tea and their voices were audible from the next room.


At tea all sat in their accustomed places: Nicholas beside the stove at a small table where his tea was handed to him; Milka, the old gray borzoi bitch (daughter of the first Milka), with a quite gray face and large black eyes that seemed more prominent than ever, lay on the armchair beside him; Denisov, whose curly hair, mustache, and whiskers had turned half gray, sat beside countess Mary with his general's tunic unbuttoned; Pierre sat between his wife and the old countess.


He spoke of what he knew might interest the old lady and that she could understand.


He told her of external social events and of the people who had formed the circle of her contemporaries and had once been a real, living, and distinct group, but who were now for the most part scattered about the world and like herself were garnering the last ears of the harvests they had sown in earlier years.


But to the old countess those contemporaries of hers seemed to be the only serious and real society.


Natasha saw by Pierre's animation that his visit had been interesting and that he had much to tell them but dare not sa
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