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Updated: May 18, 2025
The diplomat dipped the end of a fresh-lighted cigar into his coffee. "My dear Count, I am not averse to foreign alliances, but I rather suspect that my daughter is. This aversion might be overcome, however." What a vista was opened to this wretched father! If only she might marry riches, how easily he might confess what he had done, how easily all this despair and terror might be dispersed!
He half-moved to toss the fresh-lighted cigar away, then it was borne in upon him that this was the old East Falls atmosphere overpowering him, and he resolved to combat it, thrusting the cigar between his teeth and gripping it with the firmness of a dozen years of Western resolution. A few steps brought him into the little main street. The chilly, stilted aspect of it shocked him.
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