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"That is not easily disturbed," she told him quietly. "I think that I must have an unfortunate temperament, there are so few people for whom I really care." He took his courage into both hands. "I have heard it rumoured," he said, "that Matinsky is the only man who has ever touched your heart." She shook her head. "That is not the truth.
She is the confidante and the inspiration of Matinsky, and though one realises, of course, that so long as there is a Russian Republic there must be a Russian President, I suppose I should scarcely be human if I did not hate him." "Surely," Nigel queried, "she must be very much his junior?" "Matinsky is forty-four," Karschoff said. "Naida is twenty-six or twenty-seven.
The disparity of years, you see, is not so great. Matinsky, however, is married to an invalid wife, and concerning Naida I have never heard one word of scandal. But this much is certain. Matinsky has the blandest confidence in her judgment and discretion. She has already been his unofficial ambassador in several capitals of Europe. I am convinced that she is here with a purpose.
"She is beautiful enough," Maggie replied, "to have turned the head of the great Paul Matinsky himself. They say that he would give his soul to be free to marry her. As it is, she is the uncrowned Tsarina of Russia." Nigel frowned slightly. "Isn't that going rather a long way?" he objected. "Not when one remembers what manner of a man Matinsky is," Maggie replied.
"Matinsky should know," her father observed. "He was here twelve years ago. He came over with the first commission which established regular relations with the British Government." "No doubt," she said equably, "he was able to gauge the official outlook, but this country, during the last ten years, has gone through great vicissitudes.
"Then for whom else?" he demanded. "Paul Matinsky himself wrote me that you had his entire confidence that you possessed full powers for action. You will not be faint-hearted, Naida?" "I shall never be false to my convictions," she replied. There was a brief silence. He was not altogether satisfied, but he judged the moment unpropitious for any further reference to the coming of Prince Shan.
She has a great, open mind. To a certain extent, of course, she has seen things from the point of view of Paul Matinsky, Immelan, and that little coterie of Russo-Germans who see a future for both countries only in an alliance of the old-fashioned order. Matinsky, however, has always had his doubts. That is why he sent over here the one person whom he trusted.
They believe here that they have solved the problem of perpetual peace." Immelan smiled a little bitterly. "Dear lady," he said, "if I lose your help, if you go back to Petrograd and talk to Paul Matinsky as you are talking to me, do you know that you will break the heart of a nation?" She shook her head. "Paul does not look upon me as infallible," she protested.
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