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"You yourself, dear count, had some trouble about some bonds, if I am not mistaken?" "You are mistaken," the count interrupted him sharply. "I have had various troubles, but I prefer not to talk about them." "Gentlemen," interrupted Kovroff, "we did not come here to quarrel, but to talk business.
"Who are you getting that passport for?" he asked, calmly taking the paper from the table and slipping it into his pocket. Gretcka nodded toward Bodlevski. "Aha! for you, is it? Very glad to hear it!" said Kovroff, measuring him with his eyes. "And so, gentlemen, twenty-five rubles, or good-by to our happy meeting in the police court!" "Mr. Kovroff! Allow me to speak to you as a man of honor!"
You are mistaken, dear count!" answered Bodlevski, with a pleasant smile. "The matter was not of the slightest importance. The amount was a trifle and I was unwilling even to appear in court!" "You preferred a little journey to Russia, didn't you?" Kovroff remarked with a smile. "Little vexations of that kind may happen to anyone," said Bodlevski, ignoring Kovroff's interruption.
"Our luxuries would be strictly limited," jested Kovroff, with a wry smile. "There it is! You won't find many volunteers for that occupation, and that is the fulcrum of my whole plan. You must understand that gold dust in the mass is practically indistinguishable in appearance from brass filings.
So it is a bargain?" And he held out his hand to Kovroff. "How a bargain?" objected the cautious Sergei Antonovitch. "I am not personally concerned in the matter, and you must admit, my dear prince, that I can make no promises for my acquaintance." "I don't mean that!" cried Shadursky. "I only ask you to arrange for me to meet him.
We must think of some project that unites two precious qualities: first, a rapid and huge profit; second, entire absence of risk." "Conditions not altogether easy to fulfill," remarked Kovroff doubtfully. "So it seems. And daring plans are not to be picked up in the street, but are the result of inspiration. It is what is called a 'heavenly gift, my dear friend."
Kovroff again measured him with his eyes and smiled. "You are a worthy young man!" he said. "Give me your hand! I see that you will go far." And he warmly pressed the engraver's hand. "But you must know for the future," he added in a friendly but impressive way, "that I never take anything but money when I am dealing with these fellows.
And if you don't, it will be the worse for you!" he called after the departing Yuzitch, who came back a few minutes later, and gave Kovroff forty rubles. Kovroff counted them, and put twenty in his pocket, returning the remainder in silence, but with a gentlemanly smile, to Bodlevski. "Fair exchange is no robbery," he said, giving Bodlevski the passport of the college assessor's widow.
The two Princes Shadursky, father and son, both lost heavily. They sat opposite Sergei Kovroff, and between them sat Baroness von Doring, who played in alliance with them.
Kovroff contemptuously interrupted him. "You put yourself on my level? Ha! ha! ha! No, brother; I am still in the Czar's service and wear my honor with my uniform! I, brother, have never stained myself with theft or crime, Heaven be praised. But what are you?" "Hm! And the Golden Band? Who is its captain?" muttered Gretcka angrily, half to himself. "Who is its captain?
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