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Louisa Ivanovna consented to go, and in half an hour four troyka sleighs with large and small bells, their runners squeaking and whistling over the frozen snow, drove up to the porch.

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Balaga was a famous troyka driver who had known Dolokhov and Anatole some six years and had given them good service with his troykas.

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Kuragin was to put her into a troyka he would have ready and to drive her forty miles to the village of Kamenka, where an unfrocked priest was in readiness to perform a marriage ceremony over them.

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On the Arbat Square the troyka caught against a carriage; something cracked, shouts were heard, and the troyka flew along the Arbat Street.

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A courier who galloped to the castle in advance, in a troyka with three foam-flecked horses, shouted “Coming!” and

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There was running to and fro and whispering; another troyka furiously up, and then all eyes were turned on an approaching sleigh in which the figures of the Emperor and Volkonski could already be descried.

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“Go!” he cried, twisting the reins round his hands, and the troyka tore down the Nikitski Boulevard.

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It was only by the keener wind that met them and the jerks given by the side horses who pulled harder — ever increasing their gallop — that one noticed how fast the troyka was flying.

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With a last desperate effort Dolokhov pushed the porter aside, and when Anatole ran back seized him by the arm, pulled him through the wicket, and ran back with him to the troyka.

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The horses showered the fine dry snow on the faces of those in the sleigh — beside them sounded quick ringing bells and they caught confused glimpses of swiftly moving legs and the shadows of the troyka they were passing.

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