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The Kiss
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AT eight o’clock on the evening of the twentieth of May all the six batteries of the N—— Reserve Artillery1 Brigade halted for the night in the village of Myestetchki on their way to camp. When the general commotion2 was at its height, while some officers were busily occupied around the guns, while others, gathered together in the square near the church enclosure, were listening to the quartermasters, a man in civilian3 dress, riding a strange horse, came into sight round the church. The little dun-coloured horse with a good neck and a short tail came, moving not straight forward, but as it were sideways, with a sort of dance step, as though it were being lashed4 about the legs. When he reached the officers the man on the horse took off his hat and said:
“His Excellency Lieutenant5–General von Rabbek invites the gentlemen to drink tea with him this minute . . . .”
The horse turned, danced, and retired6 sideways; the messenger raised his hat once more, and in an instant disappeared with his strange horse behind the church.
“What the devil does it mean?” grumbled7 some of the officers, dispersing8 to their quarters. “One is sleepy, and here this Von Rabbek with his tea! We know what tea means.”
The officers of all the six batteries remembered vividly9 an incident of the previous year, when during manoeuvres they, together with the officers of a Cossack regiment10, were in the same way invited to tea by a count who had an estate in the neighbourhood and was a retired army officer: the
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civilian
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lashed
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regiment
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longing
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cavalry
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physiologists
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psychical
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infantry
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unfamiliar
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utterly
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lookout
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melancholy
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fragrance
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gliding
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parquet
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billiards
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touching
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doorway
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hesitation
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rustling
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fragrant
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simultaneously
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shriek
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tormented
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tryst
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trumpets
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