Copyright, 1897, by Harper & Brothers.
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CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Snow Roses | [1] |
| II. | Mist Shadows | [4] |
| III. | Comme le Monde s'Amuse | [11] |
| IV. | No Rival | [17] |
| V. | Plan of War against a Woman | [21] |
| VI. | Old Age | [34] |
| VII. | The Eight-in-Hand | [47] |
| VIII. | An Orgy over a Volcano | [51] |
| IX. | The Board of Green Cloth and the Green Book | [64] |
| X. | From Scent of Musk To Reeking Tar | [85] |
| XI. | The Hunted Stag | [102] |
| XII. | How a Fortress was Taken | [118] |
| XIII. | A Cannibal | [125] |
| XIV. | The Young Hopeful | [134] |
| XV. | The Czar Smiles | [141] |
| XVI. | Sophie | [158] |
| XVII. | Bethsaba | [168] |
| XVIII. | Korynthia | [172] |
| XIX. | The Monster | [176] |
| XX. | The Blind Hen's Genuine Pearl | [199] |
| XXI. | The Most Powerful Ruler of Them All | [207] |
| XXII. | The Devil | [218] |
| XXIII. | The Story of the Man with the Green Eyes | [225] |
| XXIV. | "Then you are not—?" | [232] |
| XXV. | Gog and Magog | [247] |
| XXVI. | Under the Palms | [255] |
| XXVII. | Panacea | [264] |
| XXVIII. | The Wedding Present | [272] |
| XXIX. | Madame Potiphar | [279] |
| XXX. | A Mother's Blessing | [284] |
| XXXI. | The Will | [290] |
| XXXII. | Not Only a Bullet Strikes Home | [299] |
| XXXIII. | The Rendezvous | [303] |
| XXXIV. | A Divided Heart | [316] |
| XXXV. | Sparks and Ashes | [323] |
| XXXVI. | Daimona | [326] |
| XXXVII. | It's Not the Knife Alone that Strikes to the Heart | [346] |
| XXXVIII. | The Tragi-Comedy at Grusino | [357] |
| XXXIX. | The Hermit | [365] |
| XL. | Discords | [372] |
| XLI. | How to Rob a Man of his Wife | [377] |
| XLII. | The Feast of Masinka | [389] |
| XLIII. | Under the Comets | [404] |
| XLIV. | The Man with the Green Eyes | [409] |
| XLV. | The Herald | [429] |
| XLVI. | "Beatus Ille...." | [430] |
| XLVII. | The Tempter | [435] |
| XLVIII. | The Mouse Plays with the Cat | [441] |
| XLIX. | The Antidote | [446] |
| L. | "Derevaski Daloi" | [452] |
| LI. | The Nameless Wife of a Nameless Man | [460] |
| Episodes.— | The Rescued Poet | [479] |
| Ghedimin and Zeneida | [482] | |
| The Romance of Constantine | [483] |
THE GREEN BOOK
OR
FREEDOM UNDER THE SNOW
CHAPTER I
SNOW ROSES
A blizzard is covering the roads with a thick coating of snow. The horses are up to their fetlocks in it. The dark-green firs bend beneath its weight, and what has melted in the midday sun already hangs from the slender branches of the undergrowth in thick masses of icicles; and as the wind sweeps through the forest the ice-covered leaves and branches ring and jingle like fairy bells.
Ever and anon the moon shines out from amid the fast-flying clouds; then, as though it has seen enough, hides itself again under the ghostly mist. The sighing of the wind through the forest is like the trembling of fever-stricken nature. In the stillness of night, through the pathless forest, rides a troop of horsemen. Their little long-maned horses sniff their way with low, sunk necks; by the shaggy fur caps of their riders, and their long lances hanging far back at their sides, they are to be recognized as a party of Don Cossacks.