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"And do other people, other noblemen, try to do this sort of thing too?" asked Etta at length. "Catrina Lanovitch does," replied Paul. "What? The girl with the hair?" "Yes," answered Paul. He had never noticed Catrina's hair. Etta's appraising eye had seen more in one second than Paul had perceived in twenty years. "Yes," he answered. "But, of course, she is handicapped." "By her appearance?"
I am afraid, my good Paul, you are a fool, God bless you for it!" "I think you are wrong," said Paul rather curtly; "not about me being a fool, but about Catrina Lanovitch. If you are right, however, it only makes me dislike her instead of being perfectly indifferent to her." His honest face flushed up finely, and he turned away to look at the clock again.
"The countess knew that Prince Paul was going to be married," explained Karl Steinmetz very slowly, as if he wished to give some one time. "With such a man as he, 'going to be' is not very far from being." "Then it is an accomplished fact?" said the countess sharply. "Yesterday," answered Steinmetz. "And you were not there!" exclaimed Countess Lanovitch, with uplifted hands.
"Tell me," he said. "I want to know that badly." The Count Lanovitch looked up with a peculiar soft smile acquired in prison. There is no mistaking it. "Oh, I bear no ill will," he said. "I do," answered Steinmetz bluntly. "Who stole the papers from Thors?" "Sydney Bamborough." "Good God in heaven! Is that true?" "Yes, my friend." Steinmetz passed his broad hand over his forehead as if dazed.
The best part of him comes from the East, the worst from Paris. The Countess Lanovitch belonged to the school existing in Petersburg and Moscow in the early years of the century the school that did not speak Russian but only French, that chose to class the peasants with the beasts of the field, that apparently expected the deluge to follow soon.
If persons in books, she will reflect, are not high-minded or pure-minded, or even clean-minded, it is useless for an ordinary person out of a book to attempt to be any of these. This is the lesson of some new writers, and Catrina Lanovitch had, fortunately enough, lacked the opportunity of learning it.
"Then you will make an enemy of her," said Steinmetz quietly. "It may be inconvenient, but that cannot be helped. A woman scorned you know. Shakspere or the Bible, I always mix them up. No, Paul; Catrina Lanovitch is a dangerous enemy. She has been making love to you these last four years, and you would have seen it if you had not been a fool!
He was constrained at the sight of my stout person, and showed it, which was a mistake. Now, what is he doing in Petersburg? He has not been there for ten years, at least. He has no friends there. He revived a minute acquaintance with the Countess Lanovitch, who is a fool of the very first water.
I had to sell my horse in the winter, and I cannot plough my little piece of land. The Government will not help us. The Prince curse him! does nothing for us. He lives in Petersburg, where he spends all his money, and has food and wine more than he wants. The Count Stépan Lanovitch used to assist us God be with him! But he has been sent to Siberia because he helped the peasants.
The whole thing was broken up; Lanovitch and others were exiled, I bolted home, and Steinmetz faced the storm alone in Osterno. He was too clever for them, and nothing was brought home to us. But you will understand that it is necessary for us to avoid any notoriety, to live as quietly and privately as possible." "Yes, of course; but " "But what?"
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