They like it better than vodka; curious, isn't it?
Your true Russian thinks that there's nothing better than vodka." Rather disturbed at the intelligence that there was a Polish regiment in the town, the boys hastened through their meal, and determined to lay in a stock of bread and meat sufficient for some days' consumption, and to leave Odessa at once.

Just as they had finished, however, the door opened, and a sergeant and two soldiers entered.
"Ah, my friend," the landlord said to the former.

"I am glad to see you.

Are you come as usual for a glass of brandy?
Real French stuff it is, I promise you, though for my part I like vodka.

Here are two of your compatriots wounded; they have furlough to return home.