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You have a penchant for good-looking men," she added, with an audacious glance in my direction. It happened for once that Anne and I were alone together, until Madame Levinska turned up, in the room that was used as an office, and where between-whiles I did a good bit of secretarial work.
One of them called out something to Madame Levinska, and she turned and shrilled back an answer, her black eyes flashing. He reined up and slashed at her with his nagaika.
I felt angry with the Levinska woman for her taunt.
And now we were waiting for fresh and more definite tidings, and I know Anne's heart beat high with hope, though we had not exchanged a dozen words before Madame Levinska made her unwelcome appearance; and Anne, who had but just returned to the room after going the round of our amateur hospital, tackled her about the nursing.
I tried to say something of this to Loris when I was face to face with him once more, in the room where Anne and I had been working when that ill-omened woman, Marie Levinska, interrupted us; but he stopped me with an imperative gesture. "Do not reproach yourself, my friend. All that one man could do, you did. I know that well, and I thank you. One last service you shall do, if you are fit for it.
Here and there a wounded man or woman was staggering or crawling away; and close beside me a woman was sitting, like a statue of despair, with her back against the wall, and something lying prone across her knees the little mangled body of the boy who had been killed in the first scuffle, that Marie Levinska had provoked. I remembered all then, and looked round wildly for Anne.
The Cossacks, urging their ponies at the usual wild gallop, and firing wantonly up at the houses, since the people who had been in the street had rushed for cover, were almost out of sight; and on the road and sidewalk near at hand were several killed and wounded, mostly women, besides Madame Levinska, who had been the cause of it all, and had paid with her life.
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