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Their common bitterness united them. And Michel received Labanoff, despite his resolution to receive no one, because he was certain that he should find in him the same suffering as that expressed by De Musset and Petoefi. Labanoff, to-day, appeared to him more enigmatical and gloomy than ever. From the lips of the Russian fell only words of almost tragical mystery.
Michel, with absent eyes, gazed at all this, as Trilby rapidly trotted on. He was thinking of what lay before him, of the folly he was about to commit, as he had said to Labanoff. It was a folly; and yet, who could tell? Might not Marsa have reflected? Might she not; alarmed at his threats, be now awaiting him?
It was many months since these two men had met; but they had been long bound together by a powerful sympathy, born of quiet talks and confidences, in which each had told the other of similar sufferings. A long deferred secret hope troubled Labanoff as the memory of Marsa devoured Menko; and they had many times exchanged dismal theories upon the world, life, men, and laws.
If we did not spur it like an old, musty horse, it would give us the same idiotic round of days. I do not know I do not wish to know why you are going to Russia, and what this final farewell of which you have just spoken signifies; I simply guess that you are off on some adventure, and it is possible that I may ask you to allow me to share it." "Why?" said Labanoff, coldly.
It was many months since these two men had met; but they had been long bound together by a powerful sympathy, born of quiet talks and confidences, in which each had told the other of similar sufferings. A long deferred secret hope troubled Labanoff as the memory of Marsa devoured Menko; and they had many times exchanged dismal theories upon the world, life, men, and laws.
Menko was arrested by the Russian police on his arrival at the house of a certain Labanoff, or Ladanoff almost my name in Russian. This Labanoff, who had lately arrived from Paris, is suspected of a plot against the Czar. He is not a nihilist, but simply a malcontent; and, besides that, his brain is not altogether right.
"It was not chance, but my own firm resolution to see you again before my departure." "I know what your friendship for me is, and it is for that reason that I ask you to tell me frankly where you will be in a month." "In a month?" repeated Labanoff. "Give me the route you are going to take? Shall you be a fixture at St. Petersburg?"
Labanoff would probably be sent to Siberia the very day that Count Menko would receive a passport and an escort to the frontier. Count Menko had chosen Italy for his retreat, and he would start for Florence the day his Excellency received this despatch. "Well, my dear minister," exclaimed Varhely, "thank you a thousand times. And, with my thanks, my farewell. I am also going to Florence."
"It was not chance, but my own firm resolution to see you again before my departure." "I know what your friendship for me is, and it is for that reason that I ask you to tell me frankly where you will be in a month." "In a month?" repeated Labanoff. "Give me the route you are going to take? Shall you be a fixture at St. Petersburg?"
"Labanoff?" repeated Michel. "Monsieur Labanoff, who leaves Paris this evening, and desires to see Monsieur before his departure." The name of Labanoff recalled to Michel an old friend whom he had met in all parts of Europe, and whom he had not seen for a long time.
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