The Pobratim: A Slav Novel

The days that followed the departure of the _pobratim_ were sad ones indeed. The Zwillievics had gone back to Montenegro; then Milena, not having any excuse to remain longer a g...

A few days afterwards Milena heard a low whistle outside, just as if someone were calling her; the whistling was repeated again and again. She went to the open door, and she saw...

There was quite a bustle at Budua, because Janko Markovic and Milos Bellacic had just come back from Cattaro that very morning, and--what was really surprising--they were both g...

On the morning of the murder Vranic accompanied Radonic out of the town. He had told Milena he would do so. On reaching the gate fronting the open country and the dark mountains...

The _Spera in Dio_ having reached Gravosa, it discharged the timber it had taken for Ragusa, and loaded a valuable cargo of tobacco from Trebigne in its stead. The ship was now...

Vranic, having found out that the Austrian law could do nothing for him, except punish him for his crime in cutting down the vines of a man who had done him no harm, shut himsel...

Since his departure, Milenko had never received any letters from his parents, for, in those times of sailing-ships, captains got news from home casually, by means of such fellow...

On the last day of the year the _pobratim_ were sailing on the waters of the Adriatic not far from the island of Lissa, now famed in history for its naval wars. Soon the sun wen...

"Well, then, take a deep plunge. Make love to her heart and soul, as if you were going to marry her to-morrow. Then, I daresay, you'll soon get over it. You see, the worst thing...

The fierce equinoctial blasts which that year had lasted for more than a month, were followed by a fortnight of fitful, heavy rain, intermitted by sudden gales and stormy shower...

The sun had already set as Mara and her friend left the convent gates and slowly wended their way homewards. The mother's heart was heavily laden with grief, for although the ho...

When the _pobratim_ returned to Budua they found the whole town divided into two camps, and, consequently, in a state of open war. Since the evening of the _karvarina_ two parti...

Vranic, having stabbed Uros, remained for a moment rooted to the spot where he stood. When he saw the red blood gush out of the wound and dye the white shirt, he stared at the y...

"I suppose you have been to Knin and Dernis?" said the captain by chance after dinner to his host, speaking about the trade with the interior, whilst puffing away at the long st...

Though the _pobratim_ would have sailed with any ship rather than with the ill-fated green caique, still Uros had pledged his word to the Greek captain to go with him as far as...

Radonic had never been much of a favourite amongst his fellow countrymen, for he was of an unsociable, surly, overbearing disposition; still, from the day he had killed Vranic p...

Sailing from Trieste to Ragusa, the _Spera in Dio_ was becalmed just in front of Lissa; for days and days she lay there on that rippleless sea, looking like "a painted ship upon...

The caique reached Trieste in time to meet the _Spera in Dio_, which, having discharged her goods, had taken a cargo of timber for Lissa. At Trieste, the _pobratim_ bade good-by...

A few days after Radonic had been brought back dying, Uros was walking down the mountain path leading from the heights of Montenegro to the Dalmatian coast. He was even in highe...

When Mara reached the convent, it was with the greatest difficulty, and only through the persuasive influence of her uncle, Danko Kvekvic, that she was allowed to see her son. U...

Milenko had been most lucky in his voyages, and had reaped a golden harvest. As steamers had not yet come into any practical use, and the Adriatic trade was still a most prosper...

The weather was clear and bright on the second day of the year. The sea was not only calm, but of the most beautiful turquoise blue, not the slightest cloud was to be seen in th...

After the ceremony of the _karva tajstvo_, all the men who had taken part in it met together at Janko Markovic's house, so as to come to a decision as to what they were to do in...

and stop him on his way. Uros in the meanwhile took to his heels. was originally and stop him on his way Uros in the meanwhile took to his heels.