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He had taught them to look upon the beasts of the forests not as enemies, but as quiet, watching friends. Wanda went alone whithersoever she listed, without so much as turning her head to look over her shoulder. The pine-woods were hers; the peasants were her serfs in spirit, if not in deed. Here, at all events, the Bukatys were free to come and go.
He was an eminently sensible person. There were gleams of gray in his closely cut hair. "You must not think that we are alarmists. If there is any family in the world who knows what it is to live peaceably, happily quite gayly " she broke off with a light laugh, "on a volcano it is the Bukatys. We have all been brought up to it.
And the Prince Bukaty was thus allowed to go where he listed, and live in Warsaw if he so desired. Perhaps the secret of this lay in the fact that he was poor; for a poor man has few adherents. In the olden times, when the Bukatys had been rich, there were many professing readiness to follow him to the death which is the way of the world.
And rightly or wrongly, those in authority are kind enough to blame, among others, the Bukatys for these survivals. Weeds, it seems, are hard to kill. Whether we are really to blame or not is of no consequence. It does not matter to the dog whether he deserves his bad name or not after he is hanged.
"I was going to say that it was odd that I should have met you at a moment that I was thinking of you; but it would be odder still if I could manage to meet you at a moment when I was not thinking of you, would it not?" "It was very kind of you," said Netty, "to think of me at the race-meeting the other day, and to introduce me to the Bukatys. I am so interested in the princess.
Petersburg Station, on the Praga side, life would perhaps be more endurable." Then the silence of the northern winter closed over him too, and Cartoner wrote in vain, hoping to receive some small details of the Bukatys and perhaps a mention of Wanda's name.
You stay or you go but remember that it is in the interests of others that you go." "Of others?" "Yes of the Bukatys. Your presence here is a danger to them. Now go or stay, as you like." Cartoner glanced at his companion with watchful eyes. He was not deliberating; for he had made up his mind long ago, and was now weighing that decision. "I will go," he said, at length.
Look at the Bukatys and a hundred others, who could go to France and live there peaceably in the sunshine. I could do it myself. But I am here. The Bukatys are here. They will finish by losing everything the little they have left or else they will win everything. And I know which they will do. They will win! The prince is wise. Prince Martin is brave; we all know that!"
For it must be remembered that English traffic is different to the traffic of any other streets in the world. "There is a girl," pursued the Frenchman. "Families like the Bukatys should kill their girls in infancy. Not that Wanda knows it; she is as gay as a bird, and quite devoted to her father, who is an old ruffian and my very dear friend."
And you know more history that was ever written in books. You know more than I do, and Heaven knows that I know a great deal. For you are a reader, and I never look into a book. I know the surface of things. The Bukatys are in London. I give you that to put in your pipe and smoke. Father and son. It is not for them that I seek Lady Orlay's help.
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