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Updated: September 6, 2025
My uncle is from home, and will not return till the day after to-morrow at dinner; but my cousin, Miss Kearney, charges me to say how happy she will be to receive you and your fellow-traveller at luncheon to-morrow. Pray not to trouble yourself with an answer, but believe me very sincerely yours, 'NINA KOSTALERGI. 'I was right in saying luncheon, Kate, and not dinner was I not?
It is the one plea he could not resist; to be sure he might say, "Kostalergi told you this, and perhaps at the time he himself believed it; but how can a man who likes the world and its very costliest pleasures guard himself against his own habits? Who is to pledge his honour that the girl will ever be the owner of this sum?"
If, then, Walpole was never for a moment what mothers call serious in his attentions to Mademoiselle Kostalergi, he was not the less fond of her society; he frequented the places where she was likely to be met with, and paid her that degree of 'court' that only stopped short of being particular by his natural caution.
To the verge of that possibility Walpole had reached but gone no further with Nina Kostalergi. The young men of the age are an eminently calculating and prudent class, and they count the cost of an action with a marvellous amount of accuracy. Is it the turf and its teachings to which this crafty and cold-blooded spirit is owing?
Before Kearney could reply for something like a passing apoplexy had arrested his words the girls entered, and made their salutations. 'If I had the honour of knowing you longer, Miss Costigan, said Miss O'Shea for it was thus she translated the name Kostalergi 'I'd ask you why you couldn't dress like your cousin Kate.
Kostalergi requires a prompt answer first of all, your assurance that you will support his claim to be received by the Sultan. Well, my lord, if you refuse, Mouravieff will do it. You know better than me how impolitic it might be to throw those Turks more into Russian influence 'Never mind that, Atlee. Don't distress yourself about the political aspect of the question.
He grew crimson at a sarcasm whose impassiveness made it all the more cutting. 'My mission was in this wise, mademoiselle, said he, with a forced calm in his manner. 'I was to learn from Mademoiselle Kostalergi if she should desire to communicate with Mr.
'I have said ten thousand, and I will not say nine nor nine thousand nine hundred. Atlee slowly arose and took his hat. 'I have too much respect for yourself and for your time, M. Kostalergi, to impose any longer on your leisure. I have no need to say that your proposal is totally unacceptable. 'You have not heard it all, sir. The money is but a part of what I insist on.
Walpole, and I shall crave a little more deference for the mention of her. 'I forgot her name, or I should not have called her with such freedom! What is it? 'Kostalergi. Her father is Kostalergi, Prince of Delos. 'All right; it will read well in the Post.
To this are appended directions how he is to proceed to carry out these instructions: what he may, and what he may not do, with whom he may seek for co-operation, and where he is to maintain a guarded and careful secrecy. Now, in telling you all this, Mademoiselle Kostalergi, I have given you the strongest assurance in my power of the unlimited trust I have in you.
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