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Updated: May 29, 2025
Determined at the first blush to face the matter out, to answer and to defy this pauper Pole who had dared to threaten him, he came ultimately to see that discretion would best serve him. Paul Boriskoff had named Kensington Gardens as a rendezvous where matters might be discussed.
Accustomed to deal with men of all natures, honest and simple, clever and foolish, secretive and loquacious, there ran in his mind the desperate idea that he would temporize with Paul Boriskoff and ultimately destroy him. Let the Russian Government be informed of the activity of this Pole and of his intention to visit the Continent of Europe again, and what were Boriskoff's chances?
The riches of the world could not purchase a devotion as precious, or any fine philosophy belittle it. He knew that she would go to Petersburg because Paul Boriskoff, her father, had need of her. This was her answer to his selfish complaints during the years of their exile. "And what am I to do if they give you the permission, Lois?" "To go back to London and marry Anna Gessner.
As for Boriskoff, he had talked so many times in such a strain that a sudden change in voice and matter surprised them beyond words. What had happened to him, then? Was the fellow mad when he began to speak of the copper mines and the days of slavery he had spent therein?
There would have been loud applause in any other assembly upon the conclusion of such an impassioned if verbally conventional an harangue; but these Asiatics who heard Paul Boriskoff, who watched the tears stream down his hollowed cheeks and beheld the face uplifted as in ecstasy, had no applause to give him. Had not they also suffered as he had suffered?
If he can tell you that Master Alban Kennedy is not something like the husband of the Polish lady Lois Boriskoff, then I'll give a penny to a hospital. Now go and ask him, Anna don't you wait a minute, you go and ask him." "Not until I've had that cup of tea, Willy." She turned round as the charwoman entered and so hid her face from him.
The father was arrested at Alexandrovf Station, as I promised that he should be the police have visited the school in Warsaw where the daughter was supposed to reside this also as I promised you but their mission has been in vain. So you see that while Paul Boriskoff is now in the old prison at Petersburg, the daughter is heaven knows where, which I may say is nowhere for our purpose.
If the old fellow had no great welcome for the young Englishman to-night, let that be set down to his sense of neglect and, in some measure, to his daughter's absence. "Good evening, Mr. Boriskoff, you are working very late to-night."
"Say that Paul Boriskoff must be released by his intervention without any condition whatever." "He will never consent to that." "He will have to consent, Count Sergius. His personal safety depends upon it." "But, my dear boy, what of the girl? Are you going to leave her here to shout our friend's secret all over Warsaw?" "She has not spoken and she will not speak, Count."
What would the threats of such a pauper as Paul Boriskoff have mattered if the man had stood alone against him? A word to the police, a hundred pounds to a score of ruffians, and he would have been troubled no more. But his quarrel was not with a man but a nation.
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