{"product_id":"2940013621756","title":"The Secret of the Night","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I       GAYETY AND DYNAMITE\u003cbr\u003e     II      NATACHA\u003cbr\u003e     III     THE WATCH\u003cbr\u003e     IV      \"THE YOUTH OF Moscow Is DEAD\"\u003cbr\u003e     V       BY ROULETABILLE'S ORDER THE GENERAL PROMENADES\u003cbr\u003e     VI      THE MYSTERIOUS HAND\u003cbr\u003e     VII     ARSENATE OF SODA\u003cbr\u003e     VIII    THE LITTLE CHAPEL OF THE GUARDS\u003cbr\u003e     IX      ANNOUCHEA\u003cbr\u003e     X       A DRAMA IN THE NIGHT\u003cbr\u003e     XI      THE POISON CONTINUES\u003cbr\u003e     XII     PERE ALEXIS\u003cbr\u003e     XIII    THE LIVING BOMBS\u003cbr\u003e     XIV     THE MARSHES\u003cbr\u003e     XV      \"I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU\"\u003cbr\u003e     XVI     BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL\u003cbr\u003e     XVII    THE LAST CRAVAT\u003cbr\u003e     XVIII   A SINGULAR EXPERIENCE\u003cbr\u003e     XIX     THE TSAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SECRET OF THE NIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. GAYETY AND DYNAMITE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"BARINIA, the young stranger has arrived.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Where is he?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh, he is waiting at the lodge.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I told you to show him to Natacha's sitting-room. Didn't you understand\u003cbr\u003eme, Ermolai?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pardon, Barinia, but the young stranger, when I asked to search him, as\u003cbr\u003eyou directed, flatly refused to let me.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Did you explain to him that everybody is searched before being allowed\u003cbr\u003eto enter, that it is the order, and that even my mother herself has\u003cbr\u003esubmitted to it?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I told him all that, Barinia; and I told him about madame your mother.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What did he say to that?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"That he was not madame your mother. He acted angry.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, let him come in without being searched.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Chief of Police won't like it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Do as I say.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErmolai bowed and returned to the garden. The \"barinia\" left the\u003cbr\u003everanda, where she had come for this conversation with the old servant\u003cbr\u003eof General Trebassof, her husband, and returned to the dining-room\u003cbr\u003ein the datcha des Iles, where the gay Councilor Ivan Petrovitch was\u003cbr\u003eregaling his amused associates with his latest exploit at Cubat's\u003cbr\u003eresort. They were a noisy company, and certainly the quietest among them\u003cbr\u003ewas not the general, who nursed on a sofa the leg which still held him\u003cbr\u003ecaptive after the recent attack, that to his old coachman and his two\u003cbr\u003epiebald horses had proved fatal. The story of the always-amiable Ivan\u003cbr\u003ePetrovitch (a lively, little, elderly man with his head bald as an\u003cbr\u003eegg) was about the evening before. After having, as he said, \"recure\u003cbr\u003ela bouche\" for these gentlemen spoke French like their own language\u003cbr\u003eand used it among themselves to keep their servants from\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding--after having wet his whistle with a large glass of\u003cbr\u003esparkling rosy French wine, he cried:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You would have laughed, Feodor Feodorovitch. We had sung songs on the\u003cbr\u003eBarque* and then the Bohemians left with their music and we went out\u003cbr\u003eonto the river-bank to stretch our legs and cool our faces in the\u003cbr\u003efreshness of the dawn, when a company of Cossacks of the Guard came\u003cbr\u003ealong. I knew the officer in command and invited him to come along with\u003cbr\u003eus and drink the Emperor's health at Cubat's place. That officer, Feodor\u003cbr\u003eFeodorovitch, is a man who knows vintages and boasts that he has never\u003cbr\u003eswallowed a glass of anything so common as Crimean wine. When I named\u003cbr\u003echampagne he cried, 'Vive l'Empereur!' A true patriot. So we started,\u003cbr\u003emerry as school-children. The entire company followed, then all the\u003cbr\u003ediners playing little whistles, and all the servants besides, single\u003cbr\u003efile. At Cubat's I hated to leave the companion-officers of my friend at\u003cbr\u003ethe door, so I invited them in, too. They accepted, naturally. But the\u003cbr\u003esubalterns were thirsty as well. I understand discipline. You know,\u003cbr\u003eFeodor Feodorovitch, that I am a stickler for discipline. Just because\u003cbr\u003eone is gay of a spring morning, discipline should not be forgotten. I\u003cbr\u003einvited the officers to drink in a private room, and sent the subalterns\u003cbr\u003einto the main hall of the restaurant. Then the soldiers were thirsty,\u003cbr\u003etoo, and I had drinks served to them out in the courtyard. Then, my\u003cbr\u003eword, there was a perplexing business, for now the horses whinnied. The\u003cbr\u003ebrave horses, Feodor Feodorovitch, who also wished to drink the health\u003cbr\u003eof the Emperor. I was bothered about the discipline. Hall, court, all\u003cbr\u003ewere full. And I could not put the horses in private rooms. Well, I made\u003cbr\u003ethem carry out champagne in pails and then came the perplexing business\u003cbr\u003eI had tried so hard to avoid, a grand mixture of boots and horse-shoes\u003cbr\u003ethat was certainly the liveliest thing I have ever seen in my life. But\u003cbr\u003ethe horses were the most joyous, and danced as if a torch was held under\u003cbr\u003etheir nostrils, and all of them, my word! were ready to throw their\u003cbr\u003eriders because the men were not of the same mind with them as to the\u003cbr\u003eroute to follow!","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082995319024,"sku":"2940013621756","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013621756_p0.jpg?v=1763583527","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013621756","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}