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This expedition turned out unsuccessful, however, and even led to an unpleasant experience for Malevsky; he was reminded of some scandal to do with certain officers of the engineers, and was forced in his explanations to plead his youth and inexperience at the time.
I was crimson with anger, but Zinaida hurriedly laid a hand on my shoulder, and getting up, said in a rather shaky voice: 'I have never given your excellency the right to be rude, and therefore I will ask you to leave us. She pointed to the door. 'Upon my word, princess, muttered Malevsky, and he turned quite pale. 'The princess is right, cried Byelovzorov, and he too rose.
I warn you I want to gallop. 'Gallop away by all means ... with whom is it, with Malevsky, you are going to ride? 'And why not with him, Mr. Pugnacity? Come, be quiet, she added, 'and don't glare. I'll take you too. You know that to my mind now Malevsky's ugh! She shook her head. 'You say that to console me, growled Byelovzorov. Zinaida half closed her eyes. 'Does that console you?
'You would offer him a poisoned sweetmeat. Malevsky's face changed slightly, and assumed for an instant a Jewish expression, but he laughed directly. 'And as for you, Voldemar,... Zinaida went on, 'but that's enough, though; let us play another game. 'M'sieu Voldemar, as the queen's page, would have held up her train when she ran into the garden, Malevsky remarked malignantly.
All of us, like Polonius in Hamlet, opined that the clouds recalled nothing so much as those sails, and that not one of us could discover a better comparison. 'And how old was Antony then? inquired Zinaida. 'A young man, no doubt, observed Malevsky. 'Yes, a young man, Meidanov chimed in in confirmation. 'Excuse me, cried Lushin, 'he was over forty.
'What induces you to receive Count Malevsky? I asked her one day. 'He has such pretty moustaches, she answered. 'But that's rather beyond you. 'You needn't think I care for him, she said to me another time. 'No; I can't care for people I have to look down upon. I must have some one who can master me.... But, merciful heavens, I hope I may never come across any one like that!
I felt a strange sensation; as though I had gone to a tryst, and had been left lonely, and had passed close by another's happiness. The following day I only had a passing glimpse of Zinaida: she was driving somewhere with the old princess in a cab. But I saw Lushin, who, however, barely vouchsafed me a greeting, and Malevsky. The young count grinned, and began affably talking to me.
'Good God, I'd not the least idea, Malevsky went on, 'in my words there was nothing, I think, that could ... I had no notion of offending you.... Forgive me. Zinaida looked him up and down coldly, and coldly smiled. 'Stay, then, certainly, she pronounced with a careless gesture of her arm. 'M'sieu Voldemar and I were needlessly incensed. It is your pleasure to sting ... may it do you good.
'Forgive me, Malevsky repeated once more; while I, my thoughts dwelling on Zinaida's gesture, said to myself again that no real queen could with greater dignity have shown a presumptuous subject to the door.
'Isn't it he? or isn't it he? I asked myself, passing in inward agitation from one of her admirers to another. Count Malevsky secretly struck me as more to be feared than the others, though, for Zinaida's sake, I was ashamed to confess it to myself. My watchfulness did not see beyond the end of my nose, and its secrecy probably deceived no one; any way, Doctor Lushin soon saw through me.
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