Cossacks, coachman, and horses all began to work simultaneously, and
bore away the left-handed man without his tugament; and the next day
but one, as Platoff had commanded, they whirled him up to the Emperor's
palace, and even, having over-galloped as was befitting, they drove
past the columns.
Platoff rose, fastened on his Orders, and went to the Emperor,
commanding the Cossacks of the Suite to stand guard at the entrance
over the squint-eyed, left-handed smith.