The complete works of Count Tolstoy . is situation, and tried toexplain to myself the character, degree, and directionof their mental capacity, in order to judge from thoseconsiderations the degree of their moral suffering. Thisyunker, or reduced officer, by his restless look and by theintentional and constant change of expression, which Ihad noticed in him, appeared to me to be a very cleverand extremely egotistical, and, therefore, a very pitiable,man. Staff-Captain Sh proposed to us to play another game of skittles, the penalty for the losing party to be, inaddition to the ride on the back,
The complete works of Count Tolstoy . is situation, and tried toexplain to myself the character, degree, and directionof their mental capacity, in order to judge from thoseconsiderations the degree of their moral suffering. Thisyunker, or reduced officer, by his restless look and by theintentional and constant change of expression, which Ihad noticed in him, appeared to me to be a very cleverand extremely egotistical, and, therefore, a very pitiable,man. Staff-Captain Sh proposed to us to play another game of skittles, the penalty for the losing party to be, inaddition to the ride on the back, several bottles of redwine, rum, sugar, cinnamon, and cloves for mulled wine,which during this winter, on account of the frost, was very popular in our detachment. Guskantini, as Sh again called him, was also invited to take part in the game;but, before beginning to play, he, obviously strugglingbetween the pleasure which this invitation afforded him another our dei The Game of Skittles Photogravure from Painting by I. I. Izhakevich. A MOSCOW ACQUAINTANCE AT THE FRONT 7 and a certain terror, took Staff-Captain Sh aside and began to say something to him in a whisper. The good-natured staff-captain struck him in the abdomen withthe large, puffy palm of his hand and cried out in a loudvoice: Never mind, my friend, I will trust you. The game was ended and won by the party to whichthe low-ranked stranger belonged ; when it was his turn to ride on the back of one of our officers, Ensign D , the ensign blushed, walked over to the benches, and offeredthe low-ranked man cigarettes as a ransom. We orderedthe mulled wine; while in the orderlies tent could beheard the busy preparations of Nikita and his orders thata messenger fetch cinnamon and clove, and while hisback stretched in places the dirty flaps of the tent, weseven men seated ourselves near the benches and, alter-nately drinking tea from the three glasses and lookingbefore us at the plain which was being merged in dark-ness, con
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