Sevastopol

rs, "to be so near, and yet not be able to get there. Perhaps t

ful face of this officer as he spoke there was apparent the sweet young timidity of t

ficer glanced at

e soon enough, I a

his tea. In fact, the one-armed officer's face, his attitude, and, most of all, the empty sleeve of his coat, expressed much of that tranquil indifference that may be explained in this

ain to his companion in the short coat. "Shall we pass

e declined

man, and picking up the knife that the latter had dropped, "they told us that horses w

ay pretty high f

it and the team. Is that very dear?" he added, turning to

f the horse is youn

Only, she limps a little, but that will pass

asked Kozeltzoff, who wishe

y to Sevastopol at our own desire," said the talkative young officer. "But we do not kno

o find out at Simferop

impertinent to him. You can imagine how disagreeable that was! Would you like to have me make you a cig

tter with a sort of

rful that is! How much we did think of you, and of all our heroes, in Peters

may have to go back?" i

ll the necessaries,-a coffee-pot with a spirit-lamp, and other indispensable trifles,-we have no money left," he said,

ney for travelling expen

isper; "they only promise

the cert

's my uncle,-when I was at his house, said that they would give it to us here; o

tainly th

ing made the same identical inquiry in thirty posting-stations, and having ev