And in this same fashion did they roll into Tula; at first they flew a hundred leaps beyond the Moscow barrier, and then the Cossack worked upon the coachman in the opposite quarter, with his nagaika, and fresh horses were put in at the porch.
Platoff did not alight from the calash himself, but merely commanded a Suite-Cossack to bring to him, as speedily as possible, the master-workman with whom he had left the flea5.
One Suite-Cossack ran to make them fetch the work which was to put the English to shame, as quickly as possible, and his Cossack had barely departed when Platoff despatched after him courier after courier, that all possible haste might be made.
When he had sent off all the Cossacks of the Suite on the run, he [Pg 41]began to despatch6 simple members of the curious public, and even thrust his own legs out of the calash in his impatience7, and was on the point of rushing off himself, and fairly gnashed his teeth—everything seemed so slow to him.
Such, at that time, was the demand that everything should be very quick and exact, that not a single moment might be wasted to Russian usefulness.
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1 suite | |
n.一套(家具);套房;随从人员 | |
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v.毒打一顿( belabor的过去式和过去分词 );责骂;就…作过度的说明;向…唠叨 | |
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3 gallop | |
v./n.(马或骑马等)飞奔;飞速发展 | |
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4 doze | |
v.打瞌睡;n.打盹,假寐 | |
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5 flea | |
n.跳蚤 | |
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n./v.(dispatch)派遣;发送;n.急件;新闻报道 | |
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