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Clustered beneath the trees in the ordinarily quiet avenues of Maisons, the crowd watched the cortege; and old Vogotzine good-humoredly displayed his epaulettes and crosses for the admiration of the people who love uniforms.
Varhely took from the mantelpiece the despatch he had sent from Florence, three days before, to the Princess Zilah, the one of which Vogotzine had spoken to Andras. He handed it to the Prince, and Andras read as follows: "I am about to risk my life for you. Tuesday evening either I shall be at Maisons-Lafitte, or I shall be dead.
In Marsa's large drawing-rooms, where glass and silver sparkled upon the snowy cloth, servants in livery awaited the return of the wedding-party. In a moment there was an assault, General Vogotzine leading the column.
After the terrible overthrow of all her hopes, Marsa was seized with a fever, and she lay upon her bed in a frightful delirium, which entirely took away the little sense poor old Vogotzine had left. Understanding nothing of the reason of Zilah's disappearance, the General listened in childish alarm to Marsa, wildly imploring mercy and pity of some invisible person.
The General had not energy enough to demand an explanation; and he bowed, saying that it was certainly not his business to interfere; but he noticed that Zilah turned very pale when he told him that it would be a miracle if Marsa recovered from the fever. "It is pitiful!" he said. Zilah cast a strange look at him, severe and yet terrified. Vogotzine said no more; but he went at once to Dr.
In seven months her face, although still beautiful, had become emaciated, and had a transparent look. The little hand, white as snow, which she gave to Varhely, burned him; the skin was dry and hot. "Well, my dear Count," said Marsa, as she lay extended in a reclining-chair, "what news of General Vogotzine?" "The General is well. He hopes to return to Russia.
The Prince saw, coming to him, with a slow but not heavy step, Marsa no, another Marsa, the spectre or statue of Marsa. Fargeas made a sign to Vogotzine, and the Russian and the two doctors concealed themselves behind the trees. Zilah, trembling with emotion, remained alone in the middle of the walk. The nurse who attended Marsa, had doubtless received instructions from Dr.
Only the intimate friends came first to the house, Baroness Dinati, first of all, accompanied by Paul Jacquemin, who took his eternal notes, complimenting both Andras and the General, the latter especially eager to detain as many as possible to the lunch after the ceremony. Vogotzine, doubtless, wished to show himself in all the eclat of his majestic appetite.
She listened to the Prince as he spoke of the future, of all the happiness of their common existence. She listened as if her resolution to die had not been taken, and as if Zilah was promising her, not a minute, but an eternity, of joy. General Vogotzine and Marsa accompanied the Prince to the station, he having come to Maisons by the railway.
Besides, she knew hardly any one at Pau, as her physicians had forbidden her any excitement; at the foot of the Pyrenees, she lived, as at Maisons- Lafitte, an almost solitary life; and Michel Menko had been during that winter, which he now recalled to Marsa, speaking of it as of a lost Eden, her sole companion, the only guest of the house she inhabited with Vogotzine in the neighborhood of the castle.
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