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Of the remaining three, one was to become the closest companion of his famous years. Naturally, then, the decision arrived at was, that Gregoriev's nature was not to be forced. Theirs would be the loss should they repudiate him now. When he desired them, he would find them within call: this last delicacy being the suggestion of Rubinstein.
And it soon appeared that Monsieur Gregoriev's confidence was justified. More yet, special favor was shown him. He passed his summer in a long and important journey through Southern Russia, travelling especially through battle-scarred Crimea, and, returning with his report to Moscow, found awaiting him that for which he had vainly intrigued for years.
Indeed its great fault in the eyes of its admirers to-day, the single one agreed upon by every critic that has ever understood and loved Gregoriev's work, is that this alone, of all his creations, is over-polished: faultily faultless.
But it was to Rubinstein, not Ivan, that she addressed herself: "What has this young man been about, Anton? Your style is certainly very much improved!" "Your Highness, it was not my barcarolle you heard, but a clever bit of improvisation on my theme my own development having proved, no doubt, too much for Monsieur Gregoriev's technique."
One week later a royal messenger entered Prince Gregoriev's presence, leaving in his hand a little packet, which was found to contain one of the great honors of Russia: the white-and-gold cross of St. George, bestowed only on one who has performed a deed of surpassing personal heroism.
Gregoriev's heart-history had been dragged gayly through the mud of Petersburg society; and at last the curious world might write finis upon a completed story in which the lady was now safely married to another; the man disgraced and degraded. But the cause of this disgrace, and its injustice, only de Windt knew or cared to know.
In many ways, indeed, this period was one of the happiest of Gregoriev's career. It was at this time that he formed those several friendships which stood him, in his after years, in such rich stead. Of the many professional men who frequented Nicholas' society, one of the foremost was Monsieur Kashkine: he who afterwards did so much to make Ivan known to his world.
This did not come about, however, until, in the spring of the year 1871, something had happened to change Gregoriev's mode of life almost as completely as he had altered that of the waif thrown up at his door out of the troubled sea of the Akheskaia.
This one was the last of Gregoriev's operas. He had already expended too much time on a form unsuited to his talent; and when "Boris" left his hands perfected, he completely lost interest in it, and began at once to devote himself to his unnumbered symphony, the "Æneid"; one of the greatest of musical epics, and well worthy of the poem whence it had risen.
And in his notes of the deeds of possible victims, the writing below the name of Brodsky who, though his official position was not high, was a man of large fortune and, therefore, valuable to Gregoriev's purpose occupied a surprising amount of space.
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