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An object, moreover, which cannot take into consideration a human life here or there, a human happiness more or less. You see, I do not even ask you to agree with me or to approve of me." "My friend, in the course of a long life I have learned only one effective lesson to judge no man," put in Deulin. "Remember," continued the prince, "I deplore the method. I understand it was a bomb.
The man leaped back with a little yelp of pain, and his knife clattered on the stones. He stood in the moonlight, looking with horror-struck eyes at his own hand, of which the fingers, like tendrils, were slowly curling up, and he had no control over them. "And now," said Deulin, in Polish, "for you."
Even the greatest of women is liable to feminine moments, and may know when she is not looking her best. She shook hands, with her platform bow from the waist and passed on. "Hallo!" said Joseph Mangles. "Got here before us? Thought you'd turn up. Dismal place, eh?" "You have just arrived, I suppose?" said Deulin. "Oh, please don't laugh at us!" broke in Netty. "Of course you can see that.
You forget I am a Russian subject." But he had not forgotten it, as she could see by the sudden hardening of his face. "My presence in Warsaw," he said, as if the train of thought needed no elucidating, "is in reality no source of danger to you to your father and brother, I mean. Indeed, I might be of some use. I or Deulin. Do not misunderstand my position. I am of no political importance.
And a well-trained French servant is the best servant in the world. He took it for granted that Wanda had come to see his master, and led the way to the spacious drawing-room occupied by Deulin, who always travelled en prince.
There was but the one link between them Paul Deulin; and to him neither would impart a confidence. Deulin had brought about this meeting to-day. Warned by telegram, he had met Cartoner at Warsaw Station, and had counselled him not to go out into the streets. Since he was only waiting a few hours in Warsaw for the St.
That he read his duty in a different sense to that understood by other men was no doubt only that which this tolerant age calls a matter of temperament. "That Cartoner," Deulin was in the habit of saying, "takes certain things so seriously, and other things social things, to which I give most careful attention he ignores. And yet we often reach the same end by different routes."
"It was odd that I should meet you at that moment," he said, at length, for Netty had not attempted to break the silence. She never took the initiative with Paul Deulin, but followed quite humbly and submissively the conversational lead which he might choose to give. He broke off and laughed.
They waited until the servant had closed the door behind him, and even then they did not speak at once, but sat looking at each other in the glow of the wood-fire. Then Deulin shrugged his shoulders, and made, with both hands outspread, a gesture indicative of infinite pity. "Do you know?" said the prince, grimly. "I knew at eight o'clock this morning.
If he had been properly trained, he might have done something, that Joseph P. Mangles; for he can hold his tongue. But he took to it late, as they all do in America. So he has come across, has he? Yes, the storm-birds are congregating, my silent friend. There is something in the wind." Deulin raised his long, thin nose into the dusty May air and sniffed it.
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