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He was not very fond of those who were disrespectful and independent, and he hindered them all he could. Recognizing a rising luminary in the newly appointed Vice-Governor, who lately had been a Councillor in the District Government, Doulebov tried to come into agreeable relations with him also.
Before our interview we waited ten or fifteen minutes at one end of a large hall. The Vice-Governor was at the other end listening to a woman whose streaming eyes and choked utterance showed that her story was one of grief. The kind hearted man appeared endeavoring to soothe her.
At that time Uncle Seryozha, Prince Leonid Dmitryevitch Urusof, Vice-Governor of the Province of Tula; Uncle Sasha Behrs and his young wife, the handsome Georgian Patty; and the whole family of the Kuzminskys, were staying at Yasnaya. Aunt Tanya was asked to sing. We listened with beating hearts, and waited to hear what Turgenieff, the famous connoisseur, would say about her singing.
But Doulebov did not wish to invite the Vice-Governor direct to Trirodov's school, so as to give no one any reason for saying that he did it on purpose. That was why he persuaded the Vice-Governor to come to the examination at the town school on the eve of the day appointed for the examinations at the Trirodov school. The town school was situated in one of the dirty side streets.
Nobody in the whole congregation knew or recognised me, except the Vice-Governor, and the fellow-student of whom I have spoken. But, of course, he kept at a distance. Presently my own name, "Dumany Kornel," was pronounced, and "Dead! Dead! Smrt!" was the shout of all around.
In 1815 they were invested with the right to 'make known grievances, but they had only once managed to perform this modest function. It was hardly worth while to talk about them on the 18th of March 1848. On the morning of that day, Count O'Donnel, the Vice-Governor of Milan, announced the Emperor's concessions.
Then, after a pause, he added: "Vice-Governor Khorvat of Tambov is my brother a younger brother; he being fifty-five, and I sixty-one, si-i-ixty one." His speech was rapid, but as precise as though no mistake was permissible in its delivery. "Also," he continued, "as a man cognisant of every possible species of cemetery, I am much dissatisfied with this one.
It was a lie when he said that Stavrogin had seen the vice-governor; what worried Pyotr Stepanovitch was that Stavrogin had gone off without seeing anyone, even his mother and it was certainly strange that he had been allowed to leave without hindrance. And how could he, how could he give up Stavrogin all at once like this! That was why he could not be very tender with the quintet.
In the first year of the Engi era, a decree went out stripping him of all his high offices, and banishing him to Dazai-fu in Kyushu as vice-governor. Many other officials were degraded as his partisans. The ex-Emperor, to whose pity he pleaded in a plaintive couplet, made a resolute attempt to aid him. His Majesty repaired to the palace for the purpose of remonstrating with his son, Daigo.
There was a dead silence at these words, and some heads were nodded in acknowledgment that I was right. Then there was a whispering and consulting and questioning, until the honourable Vice-Governor said, "Silence, gentlemen! the honourable Dumany Kornel has the floor upon a personal question."
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