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FOREWORD
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
BOOK I. BELA
BOOK I BELA
CHAPTER I
"Well?"
I told him.
"Mount Gut."
"Really?"
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
[1] "No!"
CHAPTER IV
"'True.'
"'You agree?'
CHAPTER V
"'Mitka, my sword!'
"'What is?'
"'Not at all!'
"'How?'
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
"'Hunting.'
"'No!'
"'No!'
CHAPTER X
"'It is Kazbich!'
"Pechorin --"
I went up to him.
"No, sir!"
I departed -- alone.
TAMAN
"What! No master?"
"None!"
"No."
"On that day the dumb will cry out and the
blind will see," I said to myself, following him
just close enough to keep him in sight.
"And if he is drowned?"
(All unprovided
My little barque
My little barque.
THE FATALIST
[1] Card-games.
I was petrified.
PRINCESS MARY
CHAPTER I
11th May.
. . . . .
"Oh, really?"
"No."
CHAPTER II
13th May.
"Two," I replied.
"Quite sure."
"Why?"
"Of course" . . .
"Proceed, doctor."
"Continue."
CHAPTER III
16th May.
"Positive."
. . . . .
I smiled inwardly.
I went home.
CHAPTER IV
21st May.
CHAPTER V
29th May.
"But why?" . . .
"Yes."
CHAPTER VI
30th May.
"Only here?" . . .
"Well?"
CHAPTER VII
6th June.
CHAPTER VIII
11th June.
. . . . .
"Why not?"
We separated.
CHAPTER IX
12th June.
"At what?"
CHAPTER X
13th June.
"Not yet" . . .
"Stop" . . .
"What?"
"Oh, no!"
CHAPTER XI
14th June.
CHAPTER XII
15th June.
"What?"
CHAPTER XIII
18th June.
CHAPTER XIV
22nd June.
CHAPTER XV
24th June.
I remained silent.
"Everything?" . . .
CHAPTER XVI
25th June.
CHAPTER XVII
26th June.
"Nobody."
. . . . .
CHAPTER XVIII
27th June.
"That is my secret."
. . . . .
CHAPTER XIX
We rode in silence.
"No."
I shook my head.
We pushed on.
I shrugged my shoulders.
"Quite."
CHAPTER XX
AND now we had climbed to the summit of
the projecting cliff. The ledge was covered
with fine sand, as if on purpose for a duel.
All around, like an innumerable herd, crowded
the mountains, their summits lost to view in
the golden mist of the morning; and towards the
south rose the white mass of Elbruz, closing the
chain of icy peaks, among which fibrous clouds,
which had rushed in from the east, were already
roaming. I walked to the extremity of the ledge
and gazed down. My head nearly swam. At the
foot of the precipice all seemed dark and cold as
in a tomb; the moss-grown jags of the rocks,
hurled down by storm and time, were awaiting
their prey.
"Head," I said.
He looked at me in astonishment.
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
I bowed.
APPENDIX