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Angered, hurt as these men were, they naturally put Ivan's behavior down to a sudden turning of the head. One only of them all, and he, had they but known it, the most deeply hurt, failed to censure, and guessed at something like the truth: that the young man, suddenly weary of his long term of unceasing labor at his profession, was seeking temporary playmates from another sphere.
For Ivan's persistent faith had come to naught. Michael Gregoriev still denied his son. The following week of holiday was long enough, and Ivan passed his days in complete, brooding idleness.
His heart was too full for utterance. "In the presence of God," the old man continued, "whose is the sin?" It was only now that the truth began to dawn upon Ivan's mind, and that he realized how foolish he had acted.
But I accepted, climbed the stairs and followed Uncle Ivan's stubby and self-satisfied progress into the flat. I heard Vera cry. I hurried after her and found, standing close together, in the middle of the room Henry Bohun and Nina! With a little sob of joy and shame too, Nina was locked in Vera's arms.
FISHER BOY. We live to hear strange marvels nowadays: The dead rise up, and come to life again. OLGA. Explain yourself. FISHER BOY. Prince Dmitri, Ivan's son, Whom we have mourned for dead these sixteen years, Is now alive, and has appeared in Poland. OLGA. The prince alive? My son! OLGA. Compose thyself! Calm down thy heart till we have learned the whole.
Even he could not guess, however, how Brodsky had discovered the identity of Ivan's companion. But de Windt had borne the brunt of the Colonel's rage when he learned it; and de Windt had endeavored to obtain some sort of softening of the sentence pronounced upon the unhappy boy. It was vain.
There was, then, another; a reality: terrible, perhaps, but also despicable, and full of things so mean, so low, that he was hardly even to be hated? Already he could feel that hate was a strong passion, not unflattering to its object. But a man who ill-treated women: Incredible! This was Ivan's immediate tangle. And, mercifully, tangle it remained for many years.
Her comprehension of his music life-music as it was was fuller, perhaps, than that of the delicate Princess; to whom Ivan's unexpected absence was but a passing disappointment. She had come down from Petersburg to hear the symphony; and, since he was evidently not to be present, she suddenly decided to be the first to carry him the news of his triumph.
And Ivan's deep groan touched the heart of the man that heard it. Nevertheless, de Windt had been struck by the sudden thought he had as suddenly expressed. Marriage with her daughter, would certainly be as sure a thrust as could be given to the proud woman who had so causelessly hurt her nephew.
Indeed, unsuspected though it remained by any of his friends, it was really this fact of Prince Michael's witness of his misfortune his second disgrace which, through all these months, had been eating, like some poisonous acid, into the very vitals of Ivan's manhood, Ivan's courage.
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