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At last, after a decidedly long intermission, the red cloth over the door at the rear of the platform moved, was drawn widely apart, and Clara Mílitch made her appearance. The hall rang with applause.
He was convinced as before that there everything would be solved; and therefore he drove away every sort of memory and reflection, confining himself to one thing, the mental rehearsal of the speech, in which he would lay before the family of Clara Militch the real cause of his visit. And now at last he reached the goal of his efforts, and sent up his name.
"She has even acted somewhere in country districts," went on Kupfer, "and, on the whole, she was created for the theatre. Thou shalt see for thyself!" "Is her name Clara?" asked Arátoff. "Yes, Clara...." "Clara!" interrupted Arátoff again. "It cannot be!" "Why not? Clara it is, ... Clara Mílitch; that is not her real name ... but that is what she is called.
'Is what true? replied Kupfer, puzzled. 'About Clara Militch? Kupfer's face expressed commiseration. 'Yes, yes, my dear boy, it's true; she poisoned herself! Such a sad thing! Aratov was silent for a while. 'But did you read it in the paper too? he asked 'or perhaps you have been in Kazan yourself? 'I have been in Kazan, yes; the princess and I accompanied her there.
And lo! one day as he was skimming over some not quite fresh numbers of the Moscow News, Arátoff hit upon the following correspondence: "With great sorrow," wrote a certain local literary man from Kazán, "we insert in our theatrical chronicle the news of the sudden death of our gifted actress, Clara Mílitch, who had succeeded in the brief space of her engagement in becoming the favourite of our discriminating public.
And one day, skimming through a not quite new number of the Moscow Gazette, Aratov lighted upon the following paragraph: 'With the greatest regret, wrote some local contributor from Kazan, 'we must add to our dramatic record the news of the sudden death of our gifted actress Clara Militch, who had succeeded during the brief period of her engagement in becoming a favourite of our discriminating public.
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