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Title: Honeymooning in Russia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Wood, Ruth Kedzie
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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y-women, and anothergroup who, I decided, were probably Turcomans. Myattention was distracted from these by the entrance offive or six perfectly superb figures, with brilliant eyesand fresh colour. They walked with the haughty gaitof the savage, their tunics sweeping from stalwartshoulders and flapping against high red boots. The heads were shaven except for a long dark lockwhich fell from the crown, and they wore heavy mous-taches. I nudged Phil to look at them, but he wouldnot, and persisted in regarding attentively the abstrusetables of the Nizhni-Moscow train schedule. Verywell, I murmured, sulk! I didnt know you had it inyou. Here we are in a perfectly fascinating Perso-Turco-Armenian haunt, and you are trying to spoil itall. If you call fascinating those greasy, hawk-eyedgrubbers in their bath-robe clothes, I will not contend withyou. I thought you had different tastes. That wastoo unreasonable to answer, and I said so. After awhile, I began again in a cheerful attempt to smooth
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The Chapel of the Iversky Virgin Yarmarh Adventures 173 over the unpleasantness. Those men smoking thepipes are Persians, I am sure. They look exactly likethat patriarch who tried to cheat you about the cats-eye, remember? No answer. Oh, alright— I be-gan. Philip was staring savagely at a group who werestaring impudently back at us. Philip, I warned, you cant correct the mannersof barbarians. Stop glaring at those people. If theyare annoying you, you can pretend not to see them. I dont want to pretend not to see them, he re-sisted stubbornly. I want them to see they cant forcetheir insolent attentions on two Americans who are atleast minding their own affairs. Which wasnt quitereasonable, since / had been devoting every minute to at-tending to theirs! However, there was no use trying tocalm him. If the waiter had not at that moment ap-peared with the mushroom soup I should have insistedthat we depart for a less irritating place to lunch.Every time I raised my eyes I dropped them aga

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