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Updated: May 9, 2025
Here Princess Ligovski sighed heavily. "But she is ill, and I am certain that it is no simple illness! Secret grief is killing her; she will not confess, but I am convinced that you are the cause of it... Listen: you think, perhaps, that I am looking for rank or immense wealth be undeceived, my daughter's happiness is my sole desire.
"I never reveal my secrets myself, but I am exceedingly fond of their being guessed, because in that way I can always disavow them upon occasion. However, you must describe both mother and daughter to me. What sort of people are they?" "In the first place, Princess Ligovski is a woman of forty-five," answered Werner.
She was in Petersburg for one winter, and disliked it especially the society: no doubt she was coldly received." "You have not seen anyone with them today?" "On the contrary, there was an aide-de-camp, a stiff guardsman, and a lady one of the latest arrivals, a relation of Princess Ligovski on the husband's side very pretty, but apparently very ill... Have you not met her at the well?
They are all like that, even the best-natured, the wisest... NEXT morning, having received orders from the supreme authority to betake myself to the N Fortress, I called upon Princess Ligovski to say good-bye. She was surprised when, in answer to her question, whether I had not anything of special importance to tell her, I said I had come to wish her good-bye, and so on.
Everyone intends to go and see the marvellous conjurer; even Princess Ligovski has taken a ticket for herself, in spite of her daughter being ill. After dinner to-day, I walked past Vera's windows; she was sitting by herself on the balcony. A note fell at my feet: "Come to me at ten o'clock this evening by the large staircase.
She entered the Ligovskis' drawing-room soon after us. Princess Ligovski presented me to her, as a relation of her own. Tea was served. The guests were numerous, and the conversation was general. I endeavoured to please the Princess, jested, and made her laugh heartily a few times.
This is how it was: yesterday, a certain man, whose name I will not tell you, came up to me and told me that, at ten o'clock in the evening, he had seen somebody creeping into the Ligovskis' house. I must observe that Princess Ligovski was here, and Princess Mary at home. So he and I set off to wait beneath the windows and waylay the lucky man."
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