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Page 1 - I were left alone, but hardly talked, and I spent most of the time looking out of the window.
Page 33 - There was much cheap oratory and a few earnest, soulstirring speeches, and the students spent their time in showing how the new democracy would affect the lives of the Russian people. It was curious to watch these young men, standing on broken chairs or on the railings, their eyes burning with enthusiasm, enumerating one by one the points in favour of the new regime, and gently trying to explain, as though they were teaching children, how the peasants would benefit.
Page 11 - ... By courtesy of Miss Beryl Power Russian peasants; drawing by Winifred Cooper, made in 1918 three weeks, after which they would wake up one morning with splitting headaches and find they had no money left. They took it very philosophically. Rhoda's pupil, Natasha Sabaroff, treated all the servants with the greatest contempt. 'They are real pigs,' she used to say in her broken English; 'What good to be polite with them when they steal all the time and are dirty?
Page 33 - ... processions and red flags of liberty floating everywhere, it might have been an ordinary feast-day. After nearly a week the excitement died down, to the disgust of the newsboys who, to boost sales, shouted that the German Kaiser had committed suicide and the Crown Prince had hanged himself. Public meetings, which had hitherto been considered criminal offences, were held in the town gardens, in the streets — in fact everywhere. The students spent their time describing how the new democracy would...
Page 28 - Korailov were first to emerge. In the south it was some time before people perceived what was happening. In the absence of any newspapers from Petrograd, the wildest rumours began to spread. Everybody seemed to spend hours out in the street, and nobody went to bed. Three days passed. A messenger came from the station and in less than half an hour the whole of Rostov knew that the Tsar had abdicated, and that students and workmen were fighting the police in the streets of Petrograd. Rostov remained...
Page 5 - ... and learned politics in a hard school. No Englishwoman was yet entitled to a Parliamentary vote, but this intolerance was something different. One day she asked her pupil Natasha who had played tennis with her. 'Oh, Peter Petrovitch, Maria Vassilovna and a Jew'.
Page 25 - ... but they were only apparent in the streets and by-ways. The war scarcely seemed to touch the Sabaroffs. Life consisted in seeking amusement. Visits were paid to the soldiers, but in many cases these too seemed only a pastime; and, when the scarcity of food increased, they were abandoned. Rhoda Power often met detachments of soldiers on their way to the station. They 'sang a curious melancholy chant, now all together, now in solo'.