Kissoff

Muffley has to call Russian Premier Kissoff and explain to him that there has been an accident and Russia is about to be decimated in front of the entire counsel in the War Room.

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“Than our host exhibited when General Kissoff informed him that the telegraphic wires had just been cut between the frontier and the government of Irkutsk.”

Michael Strogoff 2003

Moreover, tempered by snow like a Damascus blade in the waters of Syria, he had a frame of iron, as General Kissoff had said, and, what was no less true, a heart of gold.

Michael Strogoff 2003

The principal personage who has been mentioned, the giver of the fete, and to whom General Kissoff had been speaking in that tone of respect with which sovereigns alone are usually addressed, wore the simple uniform of an officer of chasseurs of the guard.

Michael Strogoff 2003

Nevertheless, the important occurrence which had occasioned these rapidly exchanged words was not so unknown as the officer of the chasseurs of the guard and General Kissoff had possibly supposed.

Michael Strogoff 2003

This was why the Czar, to the communication made to him for the second time by General Kissoff, had answered by the words, “A courier this moment!”

Michael Strogoff 2003

Nevertheless, General Kissoff waited until the officer to whom he had just communicated the dispatch forwarded from Tomsk should give him permission to withdraw; but the latter still remained silent.

Michael Strogoff 2003

General Kissoff, who had just re-entered, quickly approached the officer of chasseurs.

Michael Strogoff 2003

General Kissoff aside towards a window, “since yesterday without intelligence from the Grand Duke?”

Michael Strogoff 2003

"We are, then," he continued, after having drawn General Kissoff aside towards a window, "since yesterday without intelligence from the Grand Duke?"

Michael Strogoff : or the Courier of the Czar 1911