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Where was the Grand-Duke Stepan, and where was the star, the idol, the young god, who was to charm their hearts with his four strings? for whom they had paid fifteen roubles, twenty twenty-five until there wasn't a seat left, not even standing room; only the crimson-curtained Imperial Loggia in the centre, solitary, significant. The time passed; the minutes dragged slowly.
There he sat alone, a silver-haired and highly venerated old man, in the rich gloom of the crimson-curtained room, with no box of pictures on the table, but only a decanter of most excellent Madeira. Yet his heart still seemed to fester with the venom of the dagger.
It might be pleasant there in the summer, Adah thought; but now, with snow on the roof, snow on the walk, snow on the trees, snow everywhere, it presented a cheerless aspect. Only one part of it seemed inviting the two crimson-curtained windows opening upon a veranda, from which a flight of steps led down into what must be a flower garden.
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