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Perhaps the near neighbourhood of the Canon inspired this command, but the Grafin had been genuinely charmed. She adored good music and she was unaffectedly fond of good-looking boys. Ronnie went back to the piano and tasted the matured pleasure of a repeated success. Any measure of nervousness that he may have felt at first had completely passed away.
Meanwhile the Grafin had been sitting very firmly in her carriage, having refused all Frau Bornsted's entreaties to come in. It was wonderful to see how affable she was and yet how firm, and wonderful to see the gulf her affability put between the Bornsteds he was at the gate too, bowing and herself.
It was immensely kind of him to ask me to supper, for there was somebody there, a Grafin Koseritz, whose husband is in the ministry, and who is herself very influential and violently interested in music. She pulls most of the strings at Bayreuth, Kloster says, more of them even than Frau Cosima now that she is old, and gets one into anything she likes if she thinks one is worth while.
He pouched my five mark note and announced that he would manage it ... the Frau Gräfin was to see some men who had offered their services as beaters after dinner at the Castle that evening. He would take me along. Half an hour later I stood, as one of a group of shaggy and bedraggled rustics, in a big stone courtyard outside the main entrance to the Castle.
Every suitable place was either full or else for reasons not given they were refused. She was reduced to eating humble pie, to writing once more to Gräfin von Stachelberg and imparting the dilemma in which they were placed. Did this kind lady know where a lodging could be obtained? She herself could put up with any discomfort, but her mother was ill.
I don't wonder very much at Servia's refusing to accept it, and yet surely it would have been wiser if she had accepted it, anyhow as much of it as she possibly could. "Much wiser," said the Grafin, smiling gently when I said this at dinner tonight. "At least, wiser for Servia. But it is well so." And she smiled again.
I should wish, therefore, to see him in my sitting-room, if you will allow me...." "But, Frau Gräfin, most certainly. There surely was no need ..." "Johann!" Monica called the servant I had seen before, "take this man into the sitting-room!" The servant led the way across the hall into a snugly furnished library with a dainty writing-desk and pretty chintz curtains.
The Grafin turned to the little banker and spoke to him rapidly and earnestly in German. "It is most important that we should consolidate our position in this country; we must coax the younger generation over by degrees, we must disarm their hostility. We cannot afford to be always on the watch in this quarter; it is a source of weakness, and we cannot afford to be weak.
He took snuff with a cold smile. "You will not do so?" she asked. And by way of reply, Sebastian laughed as he dusted the snuff from his coat with his pocket-handkerchief. "He asks me to go to Cracow with the Grafin, and marry him," said Mathilde finally. And Sebastian only shrugged his shoulders. The suggestion was beneath contempt. "And...?" he inquired with raised eyebrows.
Therefore the picture of the Grafin Potocka in the Berlin gallery is not that of Chopin's devoted friend. Here is another Count Tarnowski story. It touches on a Potocka episode. "Chopin liked and knew how to express individual characteristics on the piano.
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