Crossword-Solution: KISSOFF 7 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

MICHAEL STROGOFF OR, THE COURIER OF THE CZAR by Jules Verne BOOK I CHAPTER I A FÊTE AT THE NEW PALACE “SIRE, a fresh dispatch.” “Whence?” “From Tomsk?” “Is the wire cut beyond that city?” “Yes, sire, since yesterday.” “Telegraph hourly to Tomsk, General, and keep me informed of all that occurs.” “Sire, it shall be done,” answered General Kissoff.

The principal personage who has been mentioned, the giver of the fête, 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.

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.

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.

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!” The Czar remained motionless at the window for a few moments, when the door was again opened.