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Here man's ideals had found their fulfillment: no Tsar, no Cossack, no CHINOVNIK.

And what bitter disappointment followed as the young idealist began to familiarize herself with the conditions in the new land! Instead of one Tsar, she found scores of them, the Cossack was replaced by the policeman with the heavy club, and instead of the Russian CHINOVNIK there was the far more inhuman slave-driver of the factory.

Under him were General Brussilov and General Kaledin in Volhynia, General Sakharoff in Galicia, and the Cossack General Lechitsky in the Bukowina along the Dniester.

"Well," said she, "how's my Cossack?" (Marya Dmitrievna always called Natasha a Cossack) and she stroked the child's arm as she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand.


"I know she's a scamp of a girl, but I like her.


" "Cossack!" she said threateningly.


At that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been posted, two men appeared on horse back.


They were an aide-de-camp followed by a Cossack.


Among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through his fieldglass.


A little behind them Nesvitski, who had been sent to the rearguard by the commander-in-chief, was sitting on the trail of a gun carriage.


A Cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack and a flask, and Nesvitski was treating some officers to pies and real doppelkummel.


The officers gladly gathered round him, some on their knees, some squatting Turkish fashion on the wet grass.


He called the Cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle.


Two of the enemy's shots had already flown across the bridge, where there was a crush.


Halfway across stood Prince Nesvitski, who had alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the railings.


He looked back laughing to the Cossack who stood a few steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles.


Each time Prince Nesvitski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile.


"What a fine fellow you are, friend!" said the Cossack to a convoy soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were crowded together close to his wheels and his horses.


"What a fellow! You can't wait a moment! Don't you see the general wants to pass?" "It's as if a dam had burst," said the Cossack hopelessly.


"Are there many more of you to come?" "Hey, Cossack, my horse!" he said.


"Now, then, you there! get out of the way! Make way!" The imposing figure of Nesvitski followed by his Cossack, and the determination of Denisov who flourished his sword and shouted frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry.


Beside the bridge Nesvitski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, and having done this he rode back.


The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel.


At last the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last battalion came onto the bridge.


Only Denisov's squadron of hussars remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away.


At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our Cossack scouts were moving.


Suddenly on the road at the top of the high ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen.


These were the French.


A group of Cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot.


All the officers and men of Denisov's squadron, though they tried to talk of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy's troops.


The weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending brightly upon the Danube and the dark hills around it.


It was calm, and at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard from the hill.


There was no one now between the squadron and the enemy except a few scattered skirmishers.


An empty space of some seven hundred yards was all that separated them.


The enemy ceased firing, and that stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt.


Zherkov was followed by an officer of the suite who rode up to the colonel of hussars with the same order.


After him the stout Nesvitski came galloping up on a Cossack horse that could scarcely carry his weight.


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