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Anna Alexyevna already had two children. When I arrived at the Luganovitchs' the servants smiled cordially, the children shouted that Uncle Pavel Konstantinovitch had come, and hung on my neck; every one was overjoyed. They did not understand what was passing in my soul, and thought that I, too, was happy. Every one looked on me as a noble being.
And after that, every time I went to town I never failed to visit the Luganovitchs. They grew used to me, and I grew used to them. As a rule I went in unannounced, as though I were one of the family. "'Who is there? I would hear from a faraway room, in the drawling voice that seemed to me so lovely. "'It is Pavel Konstantinovitch, answered the maid or the nurs e.
"Allow me," said the Lieutenant, "to introduce to Your Highness Natalie Ketschko, my affianced wife." Milan's face flushed with surprise and anger at the words. What was this trick that had been played on him? Had Konstantinovitch then brought him here only to humiliate him?
Barin!" he whispered, as though Lawrence were a long way from him. "Paul Konstantinovitch! He's mad.... He doesn't know what he's doing. Oh, sir, stop him, stop him, or we shall all be murdered!" "What is he doing?" asked Lawrence, standing up. "In the little hack room," Andre whispered, as though now he were confiding a terrible secret. "Come quickly...!"
The two of them, husband and wife, would whisper together at the window; then he would come to me and say with a grave face: "'If you really are in need of money at the moment, Pavel Konstantinovitch, my wife and I beg you not to hesitate to borrow from us. "And he would blush to his ears with emotion.
During a visit to the French capital he met a young Servian officer, a distant kinsman, one Alexander Konstantinovitch, who confided to him, over their wine and cigarettes, the story of his infatuation for the daughter of a Russian colonel, who at the time was staying with her aunt, the Princess Murussi.
But before he could recover from his indignation and astonishment, the Princess said chillingly, "Pardon me, Monsieur Konstantinovitch, you are not speaking the truth. My niece, Colonel Ketschko's daughter, is not your affianced wife. You are too premature."
He suddenly went up to Alehin and began pressing first one of his hands and then the other. "Pavel Konstantinovitch," he said in an imploring voice, "don't be calm and contented, don't let yourself be put to sleep! While you are young, strong, confident, be not weary in well-doing!
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