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drunkard and a thief who by experience that in the present condition of the public

teeneral one, and especially to criticize the volunteers

unfavorably, he too watched Katavasov without co hi with his eyes

And they fell to talking of the last war news, and each concealed

froement expected next

day, since the Turks had been beaten, according to the latest

news, at all points And so they parted, neither giving

expression to his opinion

Katavasov went back to his own carriage, and with reluctant

hypocrisy reported to Sergey Ivanovitch his observations of the

volunteers, from which it would appear that they were capital

fellows

At a big station at a town the volunteers were again greeted with

shouts and singing, againboxes

appeared, and provincial ladies brought bouquets to the

volunteers and followed them into the refreshment room; but all

this was on a much smaller and feebler scale than in Moscow