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"Abbe Miollens came to see me yesterday afternoon; he was distressed that M. Larinski had not approved of his proposition. "'The evil is not so great, I said; 'let him go back to Vienna, where all his acquaintances are; he will be happier there. "'The evil that I see in it, he replied, 'is that he will be lost to us forever. Vienna is so far away!
As he walked through the park, he remembered that Mme. de Lorcy had lost her only two children when they were still of a tender age; that she was therefore free to will her property as she pleased; that she had a short neck, an apoplectic temperament; that Antoinette was her goddaughter; that although she was piqued with Count Larinski the count was adroit, and would find a way to regain her sympathies.
Seeing this, Samuel Brohl recovered his self-confidence. "She can't have recognised me," he thought; "my voice, my accent, my bearing, everything has changed. Poland has entered into my blood. I am no longer Samuel, I am Larinski."
Had he employed these talents, he could have made his way to the opera, but his dignity held him back. Now you know what has been communicated to me by Baron B . On the faith of an honest woman, I have neither added nor omitted anything. "I am going to astonish you. Would you believe that I am beginning to be reconciled to Count Larinski?
He said to himself, "It seems absurd; but who can tell?" Thereupon he proceeded to investigate the state of his finances, and he weighed and re-weighed his purse, which was very light. Formerly Count Larinski had possessed a very pretty collection of jewellery. He had looked upon this as a reserve fund, to which he would have recourse only in cases of extreme distress.
One could pardon in Count Larinski what could not be overlooked in a Parisian." "I will pardon him on condition that he will keep his promise and never make himself known to me, for this is unquestionably the first duty of a mysterious unknown. Just now he refused to let my father present him to me, which is a good mark in his favour. If he alters his mind, he becomes at once a condemned man.
'I do not know what was in my bed, but my whole body is bruised; I am black and blue, and I never closed my eyes until dawn! 'She is a true princess, cried the queen. Is M. Larinski a true prince? I made him undergo the test of the three peas. I allowed myself to question him with indiscreet, urgent, improper curiosity; he did not appear to feel the indiscretion.
"M. Larinski made the ascent of the Morteratsch," said Camille, who, seated on a divan with his arms extended on his knees, never had ceased to look at Samuel Brohl with a hard and hostile glance. "That is an exploit that can be performed only by well people." "It is no exploit," replied Samuel; "it is a work of patience, easy for those who are not subject to vertigo."
"You are little sensible to the judgment of the world, to what people say; I am much more so. Humour my weakness or cowardice. Let us endeavour to keep up appearances; do not let us appear to be in a hurry, or to have something to hide; let us act with due deliberation. Just at present no one is in Paris; let us give our friends time to return there. We will present Count Larinski to them.
M. Moriaz was obliged to confess to himself that Count Larinski was as good company at Cormeilles as he had been at Saint Moritz, and had no other fault than having taken it into his head to become his son-in-law. Their interview was a prolonged one.
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