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was joined by Katavasov; together they got into a c

y Ivanovitch paid no attention to them. He had had so much to do with the volunteers that the type was familiar to him and did not interest him. Katavas

econd-class and talk to them himself. At the n

e got in was concentrated upon them. More loudly than all talked the tall, hollow-chested young man. He was unmistakably tipsy, and was relating some story that had occurred at his school. Facing him sat a middle-aged officer in th

tune before he was two-and-twenty. Katavasov did not like him, because he was unmanly and effeminate and sickly. He was obviously

who had tried everything. He had been on a railway, had been a land-steward, and had started factories, an

unmistakably impressed by the knowledge of the officer and the heroic self-sacrifice of the merchant and sayin

g. The Servians want help,

especially are scarce

llery, maybe they'll put me in

thing?" said Katavasov, fancying from the artilleryman's

det retired," he said, and he began to ex

ave liked to compare his unfavorable impression in conversation with someone. There was an old man in the carriage, wearing a military overco

ing off there," Katavasov said vaguely, not wishing to express his own

considered them poor soldiers. Moreover, he lived in a district town, and he was longing to tell how one soldier had volunteered from his town, a drunkard and a thief whom no one would employ as a laborer. But knowing by experie

d each concealed from the other his perplexity as to the engagement expected next day, since the Turks had been

crisy reported to Sergey Ivanovitch his observations of the volu

men with collecting boxes appeared, and provincial ladies brought bouquets to the volunteers and follo