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The Cossacks

CHAPTER XXVII
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We'll balance up some day.

You see I don't offer you any money for the dagger!' 'How could you?
We are kunaks.

It's just the same as when Girey Khan across the river took me into his home and said, "Choose what you like!" So I took this sword.

It's our custom.' They went into the hut and had a drink.
'Are you staying here awhile ?' asked Olenin.
'No, I have come to say good-bye.

They are sending me from the cordon to a company beyond the Terek.


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