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What does that matter to me?... I was going to answer that she might be at her ease, because I would never tell anyone. Princess Ligovski is taking the cure for her rheumatism, and the daughter, for goodness knows what. I have ordered each of them to drink two tumblers a day of sulphurous water, and to bathe twice a week in the diluted bath.
As she walked past us an indefinable perfume, like that which sometimes breathes from the note of a charming woman, was wafted from her. "Look!" said Grushnitski, "there is Princess Ligovski with her daughter Mary, as she calls her after the English manner. They have been here only three days." "You already know her name, though?" "Yes, I heard it by chance," he answered, with a blush.
It all happened so quickly that I was scarcely able to overtake her, and then only by the time she had joined the rest of the company. All the way home she was continually talking and laughing. There was something feverish in her movements; not once did she look in my direction. Everybody observed her unusual gaiety. Princess Ligovski rejoiced inwardly as she looked at her daughter.
In her imagination you have become the hero of a novel in a new style... I did not contradict Princess Ligovski, although I knew that she was talking nonsense." "Worthy friend!" I said, extending my hand to him. The doctor pressed it feelingly and continued: "If you like I will present you"... "Good heavens!" I said, clapping my hands. "Are heroes ever presented?
This was said rather loudly, and probably with the intention of stinging me. "Aha!" I thought to myself. "You are downright angry, my dear Princess. Wait awhile, there is more to follow." Grushnitski kept following her like a beast of prey, and would not let her out of his sight. I wager that to-morrow he will ask somebody to present him to Princess Ligovski.
Princess Ligovski is very fond of young people; Princess Mary looks on them with a certain contempt a Moscow habit! In Moscow they cherish only wits of not less than forty." "You have been in Moscow, doctor?" "Yes, I had a practice there." "Continue." "But I think I have told everything... No, there is something else: Princess Mary, it seems, loves to discuss emotions, passions, etcetera.
A reproach!... How tiresome! But I have deserved it... By the way, there is a subscription ball tomorrow in the saloon of the restaurant, and I will dance the mazurka with Princess Mary. THE saloon of the restaurant was converted into the assembly room of a Nobles' Club. The company met at nine o'clock. Princess Ligovski and her daughter were amongst the latest to make their appearance.
Princess Ligovski was walking in front of us with Vera's husband, and had not seen anything; but we might have been observed by some of the invalids who were strolling about the most inquisitive gossips of all inquisitive folk and I rapidly disengaged my hand from her passionate pressure. "I will tell you the whole truth," I answered.
"Princess Ligovski said that your face was familiar to her. I observed that she had probably met you in Petersburg somewhere in society... I told her your name. She knew it well. It appears that your history created a great stir there... She began to tell us of your adventures, most likely supplementing the gossip of society with observations of her own... Her daughter listened with curiosity.
Princess Ligovski will be below us, and next door there is a house belonging to the same landlord, which has not yet been taken... Will you come?"... I gave my promise, and this very same day I have sent to engage the lodgings. Grushnitski came to me at six o'clock and announced that his uniform would be ready to-morrow, just in time for him to go to the ball in it.
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