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Updated: June 13, 2025
At the beginning of the new winter season, Ivan passed through an experience deeply dreaded, and found himself the recipient of a happiness greater than he had dreamed possible. At the earnest solicitation of his master, he once more made his appearance in the salon of the Grand-Duchess Helena: this time as a paid accompanist.
Her person is very advantageous, and her manners very captivating. She has great knowledge of this Empire; and makes it her only study. As for the Grand-Duke, he is weak and violent; but his confidence in the Grand-Duchess is so great, that sometimes he tells people, that though he does not understand things himself, his Wife understands everything.
It seems that the Swiss lady had been, in years gone by, companion or governess, or something of that sort, to the Grand-Duchess Thyra of Gothland, who, as you know, became the wife of the King of Suabia. She died, by the way, a year or two ago. However, the Swiss lady was her companion or something of the kind, and in consequence was placed in close relations with her.
In his book on Caspar Hauser he makes no mention of it; but in 1832 he addressed a paper to Queen Caroline of Bavaria, headed, "Who might Caspar Hauser be?" in which he endeavors to show that he was the son of the Grand-Duchess Stephanie. Caspar was a legitimate child.
'Oh, please, don't talk about being sorry for me, Avdey cut her short peremptorily; 'spare me that, anyway! 'Mr. Lutchkov... 'Oh, you needn't put on those grand-duchess airs... It's trouble thrown away! you don't impress me. Masha stepped back a pace, turned swiftly round and walked away.
Madame Phoebus knew a Russian grand-duchess who had boasted to her that she had been both to Jerusalem and Torquay, and Madame Phoebus had felt quite ashamed that she had been to neither. "I suppose you will feel quite at home there," said Euphrosyne to Lothair. "No; I never was there." "No; but you know all about those places and people holy places and holy persons.
It had happened that the Grand-Duchess, having been necessarily brought into contact with the President, and particularly with his wife, during the past week, had conceived for the latter an antipathy hardly to be expressed in words.
And by degrees his memoirs the continuation of a sporadic journal long kept up, which was, however, merely a mass of disconnected thoughts, flashes of perception, remarks on personal events, and endless reflections on the unrevealed Alpha and Omega of life began to be filled with other matter: chapter after chapter containing nothing but accounts of and speculations concerning two beings as far apart as the poles of the earth, and bearing no such similarity: the history and surmised character of Nathalie's beloved patroness, the Grand-Duchess Catharine, and those of the child of the wild romance of Alexandrine Nikitenko and Vittorio Lodi.
And within the last eighteen months rather a signal honor had been offered her in the intimate friendship of the Grand-Duchess Catharine: most irreproachable, unapproachable, and, at the same time, most popular, of the imperial women of Russia.
On the walls the great European powers were represented by photographs the Empress Eugénie, the Princess of Wales, a grand-duchess of Russia, and an archduchess of Austria. M. Arthur was there taking a few moments' rest, seated in a large arm-chair, with an air of lassitude and exhaustion, and with a newspaper spread out over his knees. He arose on seeing Mme. Derline enter.
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