the garrison and the population of Irkutsk were too patriotic to let themselves be moved. Of all the soldiers and citizens shut up in this town, isolated at the extremity of the Asiatic world, not one dreamed of even speaking of a capitulation. The contempt of the Russians for these barbarians was boundless.
No one suspected the odious part played by Ivan Ogareff; no one guessed that the pretended courier of the Czar was a traitor. It occurred very naturally that on his arrival in Irkutsk, a frequent intercourse was established between Ogareff and one of the bravest defenders of the town, Wassili Fedor. We know what anxiety this unhappy father suffered. If his daughter, Nadia Fedor, had left Russia Kansas City Royals Hattar on the date fixed by the last letter he had received from Riga, what had become of her? Was she still trying to cross the invaded provinces, or had she long since been taken prisoner? The only alleviation to Wassili Fedor’s anxiety was when San Jose Sharks Kepsar he could obtain an opportunity of engaging in battle with the Tartars — opportunities which came too seldom for his taste. The very evening the pretended courier arrived, Wassili Fedor Donovan Ricketts Jersey went to the governor-general’s palace and, acquainting Ogareff with the circumstances under which his daughter must have left European Russia, told him all his uneasiness about her. Ogareff did not know Nadia, although he had met her at Ichim on the day she was there with Michael Strogoff; but then, he had not Gonzalo Higuain Jersey paid more attention to her than to the two reporters, who at the same time were in the post-house; he therefore could give Wassili Fedor Mexico Fodboldtrøjer no news of his daughter.
“But at what time,” asked Ogareff, “must your daughter have left the Russian territory?”
“About the same time that you did,” replied Fedor.
“I left Moscow on the 15th of July.”
“Nadia must also have quitted Moscow at that time. Her letter told me so expressly.”
“She was in Moscow on the 15th of July?”
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“Then it was impossible for her — But no, I Fotbollsspelare am mistaken — I was confusing dates. Unfortunately, it is too probable that your daughter must have passed the frontier, and you can only have one hope, that she stopped on learning Belstaff Väska the news of the Tartar invasion!”
The father’s head fell! He knew Nadia, and he knew too well that nothing would have prevented her from setting out. Ivan Ogareff had just committed gratuitously an act Nike Air Max 2011 Mænd Sko of real cruelty. With a word he might have reassured Fedor. Although Nadia had passed the frontier under circumstances with which Mario Gotze Jersey we are acquainted, Fedor, by comparing the date on which his daughter would have been at Nijni-Novgorod, and the date of the proclamation which forbade anyone to leave it, would no doubt have concluded thus: that Nadia had not been exposed to the dangers of the invasion, and that she was still, in spite of herself, in the European territory of the Empire.
Ogareff obedient to his nature, a Thomas Meunier Jersey man who was never touched by the sufferings Diego Maradona Jersey of others, might have said that word. He did not say it. Fedor retired with his links:
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