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Kranitski began to feel the tone of mind mightily. His shoulders bent forward mechanically; he took out of his pocket the gold cigarette case, and thought, while turning it in his fingers: "Everything passes! Everything is behind me love and the rest! The grave swallows all things. The days fly, like dust, fly into the past into eternity! Eternity! the enigma."
By neglect of duty Darvid is brought to madness; by neglect of money Kranitski is brought to be a parasite, and when he loses even that position he is supported by a servant. The right use of wealth, the proper direction of labor, these are supreme questions in our time, and beyond all in America.
When they turned to go he conducted them to the door; when that was closed he turned to Kranitski and said: "Now I am at your service." No one had ever seen service so icy cold, and having in it the shade of a restrained threat.
It must have been late at night when Kranitski rose from his knees and found himself alone in that chamber. Outside the words and prayers of watchers were heard murmuring beyond the doors and the walls, but there the sleep of death seemed to reign alone. After a while, however, something rustled near one of the walls.
Maryan, continuing to walk through the chamber, narrated the conversation with his father and the ultimatum given him. The baron laughed noiselessly, and inquired; Kranitski gave out cries of indignation. Maryan, with a fiery face and feverish movement, added: "I had thought that man worthy of my admiration. Logical, consequent, unconquerable, formed of one piece. A magnificent monolith.
"Moral principles!" added Kranitski, "he himself practises them beautifully. Let him give even half of his millions to that poverty which is ashamed to beg. Oh, he will not! He will not do that! By the help of moral principles it is easy to put sacred burdens on other men's shoulders." "That is it," added Maryan, "on other men's shoulders you have hit the point, my old man. Yes!
Returned only to-day you must go without me." He straightened himself, smiled, tried to move without constraint, but unconquerable suffering was evident on his features and in the expression of his eyes. "May we send the doctor?" asked Maryan. "No, no," protested Kranitski, and the baron took him by the arm and turned him toward the bedroom.
"Hm!" commenced she immediately, "I thought that thou hadst fastened for the day in some pleasant company; but, Arabian adventure! thou hast returned before evening. This is well, for guests have been here, and they will come again shortly." "Guests?" inquired Kranitski, and his face cleared somewhat, but briefly, because Clemens snorted. "Yes, one of them was very important.
While passing multitudes of people, Kranitski raised his hand to his hat frequently, and at times, with a smile which was winning, nay, almost seductive, he made movements as if to approach, or even spring forward to those whom he greeted; but they, with a courteous though prompt inclination, moved past the man swiftly.
He was wounded to his innermost heart by the last conversation which he had had with his father. It was brief, but decisive; he had told it to Kranitski. From the narrative it was possible to divine that Darvid had shown at first an inclination to milden the demands on his son, but afterward despotic habits and practical views had won the victory.
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