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...nderin- Chief: an invitation which was, under the circumstances, a summons to duty. Thus I had occasion to spend some days in procuring the necessary passport and other official facilities for my journey. It happened just then that the Stage Society gave a performance of this little play....

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...to duty. Thus I had occasion to spend some days in procuring the necessary passport and other official facilities for my journey. It happened just the...

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... his examination of the Grand Duchess.] This of- ficer travelled with your passport. What have you to say to that? THE GRAND DUCHESS. Bosh! How could ... ...ay to that? THE GRAND DUCHESS. Bosh! How could a man travel with a woman’s passport? STRAMMFEST. It is quite simple, as you very well know. A dozen tr... ...ow. A dozen travellers arrive at the boundary. The official collects their passports. He counts twelve per- sons; then counts the passports. If there ... ..., he is satisfied. THE GRAND DUCHESS. Then how do you know that one of the passports was mine? STRAMMFEST. A waiter at the Potterdam Hotel looked at t... ... mine? STRAMMFEST. A waiter at the Potterdam Hotel looked at the officer’s passport when he was in his bath. It was your passport. THE GRAND DUCHESS. ... ...with the police the officer had vanished; and you were there with your own passport. They knouted him. THE GRAND DUCHESS. Oh! Strammfest, send these m...

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... velvet with low neck and short sleeves conquered her, and she gave up her passport. On the same evening the procuress took an isvostchik and drove he... ...ho spent most of her time in sleep and who was arrested because she had no passport. The consumptive woman was not asleep, but lay with wide open eyes... ...dent,” said the inspector. “These people were taken up because they had no passports, and ought to have been sent back to their native government; but... ...have written, asking us not to send them on. So we have sent all the other passportless people to their different governments, but are keeping these.”... ...ere now being kept in prison because they had no pass- ports, yet they had passports which were only a fortnight overdue. The same thing had happened ... ... thing had happened every year; they had many times omitted to renew their passports till they were overdue, and nobody had ever said anything; but th... ...hings: about Maslova’s removal to the prison hospi- tal, and about the 130 passportless men innocently im- prisoned. Though it was very hard to petiti... ...,” said Nekhludoff, “is that 130 persons are imprisoned only because their passports are overdue. They have been kept here a month.” And he related th... ...sible that people who have done no wrong are imprisoned only because their passports are overdue? And ….” “That’s the Procureur’s business,” Maslennik...

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... ended at St. Petersburg, where he got into difficulties through want of a passport, from which he was res- cued by the American consul and sent home.... ...ssible, the voyagers had taken the pre- caution to prepare themselves with passports directed to all parts of the Continent, specifying the nature of ... ... usual formalities of office : unexpected events, however, rendered these passports superfluous. “The inflation was commenced very quietly at day...

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...ím asked about Elisha, but no one had seen him. Efím got himself a foreign passport, which cost him five roubles. He paid forty roubles for a return t... ... Jerusalem. They stopped outside the town, at the Russian inn, where their passports were indorsed. Then, after dinner, Efím visited the Holy Places w...

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...to be in a state of war with me from the time Prince Kuragin asked for his passports. The reasons on which the Duc de Bassano based his refusal to del... ...aid that the Emperor Alexander did not consider Kurakin’s de- mand for his passports a sufficient cause for war; that Kurakin had acted on his own ini...

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...d, and from there they would hasten abroad with post horses. Anatole had a passport, an order for post horses, ten thousand rubles he had taken from h... ...der you? Who arranged everything for you? Who found the priest and got the passport? Who raised the money? I did it all.” “W ell, thank you for it. Do... ...to be in a state of war with me from the time Prince Kuragin asked for his passports. The reasons on which the Duc de Bassano based his refusal to del... ... said that the Emperor Alexander did not consider Kurakin’s demand for his passports a sufficient cause for war; that Kurakin had acted on his own ini...

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...ll disgrace me with some coxcomb out there, Italian or Russian, refusing a passport, letters, utter loneliness, 19 The Wife and other stories missing... ...vel Andreitch! T omorrow I will send in a petition and they will give me a passport, and I will go away; I will go! I will go! I’ll go into a convent,... ... and a fidelity which is of no use to any one. Because you won’t give me a passport, I must respect your good name, though it doesn’t exist.” I had to... ...our legal rights and in the interests of morality, you refuse to give me a passport. Law and morality is such that a self-respecting healthy young wom... ...editors, the rudeness of the railway ser- vants, the inconveniences of the passport system, the expen- sive and unwholesome food in the refreshment-ro...

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...d, and from there they would hasten abroad with post horses. Anatole had a passport, an order for post horses, ten thou- sand rubles he had taken from... ...r you? Who arranged ev- erything for you? Who found the priest and got the passport? Who raised the money? I did it all.” “W ell, thank you for it. Do...

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... skin of my teeth, as they say. I have neither money nor brains, and on my passport you may read that I am simply a citizen of Kiev. So was my father,...

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...ecause it ought to be at home everywhere. And if it has its papers and its passports, and gets what it requires not by begging and pilfering, but from...

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...practically “all the town” called upon him. An introduction from him was a passport to every draw- ing-room; few young and pretty ladies in society ob...

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...ms, where I was acquainted wis one General Sasin, who loaft me, givet me a passport from ze Embassy, ant taket me to Russland to learn his chiltren. V...

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...,” the former Brazilian said with a bow; “perhaps you would like to see my passport.” “Well, perhaps—” And he had the impudence to show her his false ...

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...ent qualities, since, by a very natural effect of their position, the best passport to the admiration and favour of women has always been to be though...

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...wrote: “John Brown, aged 23. Chicago Ill., Etats-Unis. Musician. Holder of passport No. 1,432,286.” “Merci, Monsieur. A bientot, Monsieur. Au revoir, ... ... when he had closed the door that he remembered that he had put down for a passport number his army number. “And why did I write John Brown as a name?...

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... Vodolazov mimicked drunken merchants and Armenians; and Fenogenov (on his passport his name was Knish), a tall, stout Little Russian with black eyes ...

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... principally to that which, in the existing state of society, is the chief passport to power; and under English institutions, riches, hereditary or ac...

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...l for their flight, Emma said, suddenly assuming a gay air— “Y ou have the passports?” “Yes.” “Y ou are forgetting nothing?” “No.” “ Are you sure?” “C...

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... big mittens. T o-morrow I shall be on the ocean. Pretty neat the way that passport was put through. Rode all day in a taxi, two cylinders, running on...

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...ath too, at last. The traveller must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements, the principal powers that be for him. He shall ...

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...is with most men serves the turn. The tenet has had the attestation of reverend antiquity; it comes to me with the passport of former ages, and theref...