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Theodore, the friend who drove Father Vasily back, was a sociable, merry giant with red hair and a red beard. His son had just been taken as a recruit, and to celebrate the event, Theodore had had a drink, and was therefore in a particularly happy frame of mind.
"Mitri's mare was tired out," he said; "why not help a friend? Why not help a friend? We ought to be kind to one another, oughtn't we? Now then, my beauty! " he shouted to the bay horse with its tightly plaited tail, and touched it with the whip.