text:  In the heart of the Czar's immense dominions whither could a fugitive betake himself without a certainty of being overtaken or of dying from hunger before he reached the frontier? Corporal Ivan remained then walking up and down in front of the cottage alternately whistling and floging his leathern overalls with his riding whip and occasionally stopping to gaze at the Countess's travelling carriage which was standing without horses in the road