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"Alexis III. has signalized the first month of his reign by destroying the historic home of our race that is all, madame!" he muttered bitterly. "But why are we remaining here? Where does Alec live? He must inhabit a house of some sort. Tell the man to drive there at once!" The Prince affected not to hear. "What could Stampoff be thinking of to permit this outrage?" he murmured.
As a last hope, however, Alexis rushed on over the snow, holding his ride before him, and prepared to fire its contents into the bear the moment he should get sight of the animal. As he advanced, he could hear a plunging and splashing of water, with other noises, as the snorting and growling of the bear, and the crashing of frozen snow, all mixed up in confusion of sounds.
Unless you can bring Alexis with you, and show him to me alive, I will always believe that you killed him, like the heartless, cruel monster you have been from a child." "Is that your last word, mother?" asked Paul, controlling his voice by a great effort. "My very last word, to you," she answered, pointing to the door. Paul went out, and left her alone.
Presently General Sheridan came riding up, and the ambulances were gathered round. Soon corks were popping and champagne was flowing in honor of the Grand Duke Alexis and his first buffalo. Many of the newspapers which printed accounts of the hunt said that I had shot the buffalo for the Grand Duke. Others asserted that I held the buffalo while the Grand Duke shot him.
For as long as I might have counted "one, two," slowly, the paper looked black before my eyes, as if ink were spilt over it, blotting out the words: but the dark smudge cleared away, and showed me nothing, except that, if Alexis Godensky held a trump card, I was not to have a sight of it until later, when he chose.
He'd have made a smart sailor, Alexis would; quick an' willing." "They say Canada French ain't spoken the same, anyway" began the Captain's devoted friend, Mr. Ezra Spooner, by way of assurance, when the store door opened and a bright little figure stood looking in. All the gray-headed men turned that way, and every one of them smiled. "Come right in, dear," said the kind-hearted old Captain.
"By the Great Peter!" whispered Ivan to Alexis, "they will be hard indeed if we don't accept them." Alexis took the paper, and both, bowing to their father, retired to their own apartment. The seal was immediately broken and not without some surprise did they peruse the contents of the document. It was in the form of an epistle, and ran thus: "My sons Alexis and Ivan!
In this he was much helped by his intimate knowledge of the more intricate parts of animal physiology which treat of nerve currents and the working of the brain; for Alexis von Baumgarten was Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Keinplatz, and had all the resources of the laboratory to aid him in his profound researches.
Ah, if you could only have married Alexis, if it could only have been the other way!" "Hush!" exclaimed Hermione, almost roughly. "You are wishing that Paul were dead, instead of his brother. I will go away, if you talk like that." She suited the action to the word, and rose to go towards the door. She knew her aunt very well. Madame Patoff changed her tone at once.
Nor did all the Russians perish. Three were found skulking next morning in the woods, starving and ignorant of any tongue but their own, and five more came ashore much battered but alive. Alexis took charge of the eight survivors, and arranged to pay their passage to one of the British Dominions and to give them a start in a new life.
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