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In our particular family such apprehension was common to Papa, Woloda, and myself, and was developed to the highest pitch, Dubkoff also approximated to our coterie in apprehension, but Dimitri, though infinitely more intellectual than Dubkoff, was grosser in this respect.
This person was a Polish schoolmaster, who bore a striking likeness to the real Dimitri, and who was sufficiently intelligent to play his part creditably.
In Shakespeare's Hamlet and Enobarbus, in Fielding's Squire Western, in Walter Scott's Edie Ochiltree and Meg Merrilies, in Balzac's Pere Goriot and Madame Marneff, in Thackeray's Colonel Newcome and Becky Sharp, in Turguenieff's Bazarof and Dimitri Roudine, we meet persons who exhaust for us the groups to which they severally belong.
The count impressively rolled up his sleeve and displayed a scar about two inches in length upon his forearm. "See, Louise," he said, gloomily; "that is some of their accursed work. Have I not cause to detest them? They are spiteful, vengeful, implacable." Louise lovingly kissed the scarred arm. "Poor Dimitri," she murmured; "how it must have pained. Tell me how it happened."
The greater part of the army and the people declared in favour of Dimitri, and the citizens of Moscow having invited him to assume the reins of power, Dimitri made a triumphal entry into the capital, and was crowned with great pomp. At first he ruled prudently, and, had he continued as he began, might have retained his strangely acquired throne.
"Notwithstanding the unprecedented manner in which the requests of His Excellency, Kyrios Dimitri Mavrogordato, our Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Morocco, were acceded to on the recent Embassy to Mulai Abd er-Rahmán, the Moors have shown their true colours at last by equally marked, but less astonishing, insults.
'Monsieur Dimitri, said Gemma, and she passed her hand over her hair on the side turned towards Sanin, 'don't, please, call Herr Klueber my betrothed. I shall never be his wife. I have broken with him. 'You have broken with him? when? 'Yesterday. 'You saw him? 'Yes. At our house. He came to see us. 'Gemma? Then you love me? She turned to him.
But although the nobles failed in their attempt to foist another Dimitri upon their fellow-countrymen, the Poles, who were interested for their countrywoman Marina, were not discouraged from trying the same ruse. They produced a flesh-and-blood candidate for the Russian sceptre.
Sanin at once availed himself of this suggestion. 'Sanin! Sanin! The ladies would never have expected that a Russian surname could be so easy to pronounce. His Christian name 'Dimitri' they liked very much too. The elder lady observed that in her youth she had heard a fine opera Demetrio e Polibio' but that 'Dimitri' was much nicer than 'Demetrio. In this way Sanin talked for about an hour.
He felt awkward at last; he was silent a second time. 'Dimitri Pavlovitch' began Maria Nikolaevna, and sank into thought again.... 'Dimitri Pavlovitch, she repeated.... 'Do you know what: I am sure the purchase of your estate will be a very profitable transaction for me, and that we shall come to terms; but you must give me two days.... Yes, two days' grace.
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