The Duel - Александр Куприн

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both at mess and in their own homes, was widespread amongst the officers.

      With regard to the officers’ sense of duty, that, too, was, as a rule, altogether lacking. The non-commissioned officers did all the work; the pay-sergeants set in motion and regulated the inner mechanism of the company, and were held responsible for the despatch of it; hence very soon, and quite imperceptibly, the commander became a mere marionette in the coarse, experienced hands of his subordinates. The senior officers, moreover, regarded the exercises of the troops with the same aversion as did their junior comrades, and if at any time they displayed their zeal by punishing an ensign, they only did it to gain prestige or – which was more seldom the case – to satisfy their lust of power or desire for revenge.

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      The Lezghins are among the medley of mountain tribes living in Daghestan and part of the Terek province. These mountaineers of the Eastern Caucasus are nearly all Sun’i Mohammedans.

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      One of Russia’s bravest and greatest generals in the war with Napoleon, 1812.

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      Roman Catholic priests are so called in Lithuania and Poland.

      4

      Schtoss is a sort of Russian hazard.

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      Yuri = George.

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      Roubashka (blouse).

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1

The Lezghins are among the medley of mountain tribes living in Daghestan and part of the Terek province. These mountaineers of the Eastern Caucasus are nearly all Sun’i Mohammedans.

2

One of Russia’s bravest and greatest generals in the war with Napoleon, 1812.

3

Roman Catholic priests are so called in Lithuania and Poland.

4

Schtoss is a sort of Russian hazard.

5

Yuri = George.

6

Roubashka (blouse).

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