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"To Adelaïda there was something more terrible in the succeeding silence than in the shock of sound; it had ceased directly, died first into a discordant groan, which, rising to a scream, was still. She listened intensely: there was no fall of rattling fragments, the vibration had been insufficient, or not prolonged enough, to injure the window, that had been her first, chief fear.
She has not even been in the place many people don't even know that she has returned from Moscow! I have only observed her carriage about for the last three days or so." "It's a lovely carriage," said Adelaida. "Yes, it was a beautiful turn-out, certainly!" The visitors left the house, however, on no less friendly terms than before.
Then, after a six months' silence, Evgenie Pavlovitch informed his correspondent, in a long letter, full of detail, that while paying his last visit to Dr. They all received Evgenie Pavlovitch with effusive delight; Adelaida and Alexandra were deeply grateful to him for his "angelic kindness to the unhappy prince."
Adelaïda Ivanovna Miüsov’s action was similarly, no doubt, an echo of other people’s ideas, and was due to the irritation caused by lack of mental freedom. She wanted, perhaps, to show her feminine independence, to override class distinctions and the despotism of her family.
I have mentioned already that Grigory had detested Adelaïda Ivanovna, the first wife of Fyodor Pavlovitch and the mother of Dmitri, and that he had, on the contrary, protected Sofya Ivanovna, the poor “crazy woman,” against his master and any one who chanced to speak ill or lightly of her.
They will remember with gratitude the joys they have derived from the effusions of his fruitful intellect; they will call to their recollection the joyous chorus of the prisoners in Fidelio, the sublime and adoring hymn of the "Alleluia" in The Mount of Olives, the matchless pomp of the Sinfonia Eroica, the passionate beauty of the sentiment of Adelaida, the aerial grace of his quartets and waltzes, the thrilling and almost awful pathos of the dirge written for six trombones, but, above all, they will recall to mind the noblest work ever conceived and perfected by composer, one of the greatest achievements of the human mind, the Mass in D. And, bearing these wonders in their memory, their hearts will ache for the doom of Ludwig Von Beethoven.
Colia was exclaiming in a loud voice. "I have told you so at least a hundred times." "Yes, it is really much too late to send to town now," said Evgenie Pavlovitch, who had escaped from Aglaya as rapidly as possible. "I am sure the shops are shut in Petersburg; it is past eight o'clock," he added, looking at his watch. "We have done without him so far," interrupted Adelaida in her turn.
Aglaya looked menacingly at her laughing sisters, but could not contain herself any longer, and the next minute she too had burst into an irrepressible, and almost hysterical, fit of mirth. At length she jumped up, and ran out of the room. "I knew it was all a joke!" cried Adelaida. "I felt it ever since since the hedgehog." "No, no!
Dear heart, how she sighed to rest on my sheltering bosom! And how I enjoyed my dual nature! How I admired myself! Adelaida chose La Moglie del Dottore for her Evening of Honour. During the following week came a little storm of coloured bills: 'Great Evening of Honour of Enrico Persevalli. This is the leader, the actor-manager.
"If I were, I should make love to you, because you are rich." "And do you suppose I would respond?" "I don't know, but I should try it, as others do; and you can see that I don't try." Amparito bit her lips and said ironically: "Are you reserving yourself for my cousin Adelaida?" "I am not reserving myself for anybody." "We couldn't say that you are very amiable." "That is true.
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