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Updated: May 27, 2025
Paul did not at that moment look a likely subject for explanations even the explanations of a beautiful woman. But there was one human quantity which in all his experience Karl Steinmetz had never successfully gauged namely, the extent of a woman's power over the man who loves, or at one time has loved her. "She cannot explain away Stépan Lanovitch's ruined life.
"Also," went on Paul, with that deliberate grasp of the situation which never failed to astonish the ready-witted Steinmetz; "also, you have other calls upon your energy. You have other work to do." Lanovitch's broad face lightened up; his benevolent brow beamed. His capacity for work had brought him to the shoemaker's last in Tomsk. It is a vice that grows with indulgence.
Steinmetz grunted acquiescence and walked wearily to the window. This was only an old and futile argument of his own. "And make it impossible for me to live another day among them," said Paul. "Do you think St. Petersburg would countenance a prince who works among his moujiks?" Stépan Lanovitch's pale blue eyes looked troubled. Steinmetz shrugged his shoulders.
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