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Updated: May 20, 2025
Slender, grayish bits of smoke passed above her sleeping face, and, impelled by invisible movements of air, stretched in waving threads from her to him. Just at that moment he saw Kranitski come from an inner apartment of the house and kneel at the steps strewn with flowers. He looked; he recognized the man, and felt none of those emotions which his name alone had roused in him previously.
Kranitski looked at her and began to shake his head with a slow movement. She, too, fixing her fiery and gloomy eyes on his eyes, shook slowly her head, which was covered with a great cap.
All three lighted cigars and went to the drawing-room where Maryan sat again on the Louis XI box, Kranitski sank into a cathedra, and the baron opened at the window one sheet of an English paper, which shielded him before the light from his knees to the crown of his head. He was silent rather long, then from behind the paper curtain was heard his nasal voice: "Crushing!"
Throughout the silent chamber was heard, as it were, the sound of a trumpet: that sound was made by widow Clemens, who had drawn from her pocket a coarse handkerchief and held it to her nose. Her eyes were moist. Kranitski quivered and squirmed, but continued: "When we met the first time after parting, the spring season was around us.
That "poor Kranitski" had left the city to live on his estate permanently, or rather in his poor village, situated in that same district as Krynichna, not very near, but in the same region. Of course, he will be a frequent guest at Krynichna but, maybe not; even, surely not. Indeed, she had broken with him, and, in truth, she felt immense shame and pain he laughed. A penitent Magdalen!
This time, however, an expression of constraint and of suffering fell on his face. "I know not, dear baron; indeed, I can do nothing, for to tell for I " A number of drops of perspiration came out on his forehead, and he added, with difficulty: "It seems that Panna Irene " There is in her something undefined, something contradictory " Kranitski made a quick movement. "My baron "
Kranitski, sitting on the garden bench, had grown rigid in the posture described above his mouth awry, his eyes gleaming. So this is what has happened! In a few weeks after the death of the hapless Cara he is active and triumphant; he hurls his lariat on the golden calf and captures new millions. A demi-god! A Titan! The king of markets!
From a thick, long book he cut out a page, on which, previously, he had written a few words in haste, and giving it to Kranitski, he said: "Here is a bank check for a considerable sum. Your affairs, as I hear, are in a very disagreeable condition." Kranitski's face grew radiant from delight, and became ten years younger.
From street to street, and from one alley of the public garden to another, passed Arthur Kranitski, with the step and the mien of a person who is strolling through a city without great desire or object.
After a few minutes steps were heard in the antechamber of people coming in, and the fresh voice of a man cried: "May one see the master of this place?" Kranitski ran to the antechamber. "Of course, my dears! You make me happy, altogether happy!"
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