Meanwhile the koliaska quied its pace, and Chichikov once more caught sight of Tienikov''s aspen-studded meadows. Undulatily oic springs, the vehicle cautiously desded the steep ine, and then proceeded past water-mills, rumbled over a bridge or two, and jolted easily along the rough-t road which traverd the flats. Not a molehill, not a mound jarred the spihe vehicle was fort itlf.
Swiftly there flew by clumps of osiers, slender elder trees, and silver-leaved poplars, their branches brushing against Selifan arushka, and at intervals depriving the valet of his cap. Each time that this happehe sullen-faced rvitor fell t both the tree responsible for the occurrend the landowner responsible for the tree being ience; yet nothing would induce him thereafter either to tie on the cap or to steady it with his hand, so plete was his assurahat the act would never be repeated. Soon to the foing trees there became added an occasional birch or spruce fir, while in the den undergrowth around their roots could be en the blue iris and the yellow wood-tulip. Gradually the forest grew darker, as though eventually the obscurity would bee plete. Then through the trunks and the boughs there began to gleam points of light like glittering mirrors, and as the number of trees leshe points grew larger, until the travellers debouched upon the shore of a lake four versts or so in circumference, and having on its further margin the grey, scattered log huts of a peasant village. Ier a great otion was in progress.
Meanwhile the koliaska quied its pace, and Chichikov once more caught sight of Tienikov''s aspen-studded meadows. Undulatily oic springs, the vehicle cautiously desded the steep ine, and then proceeded past water-mills, rumbled over a bridge or two, and jolted easily along the rough-t road which traverd the flats. Not a molehill, not a mound jarred the spihe vehicle was fort itlf.
Swiftly there flew by clumps of osiers, slender elder trees, and silver-leaved poplars, their branches brushing against Selifan arushka, and at intervals depriving the valet of his cap. Each time that this happehe sullen-faced rvitor fell t both the tree responsible for the occurrend the landowner responsible for the tree being ience; yet nothing would induce him thereafter either to tie on the cap or to steady it with his hand, so plete was his assurahat the act would never be repeated. Soon to the foing trees there became added an occasional birch or spruce fir, while in the den undergrowth around their roots could be en the blue iris and the yellow wood-tulip. Gradually the forest grew darker, as though eventually the obscurity would bee plete. Then through the trunks and the boughs there began to gleam points of light like glittering mirrors, and as the number of trees leshe points grew larger, until the travellers debouched upon the shore of a lake four versts or so in circumference, and having on its further margin the grey, scattered log huts of a peasant village. Ier a great otion was in progress.