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Updated: May 27, 2025
But, as Baroni ceased, the recollection of her own bitter share in the matter returned with overwhelming force, and once more she arraigned him for his silence. "I still see no reason why you should not have told me the truth about Adrienne about Nadine Mazaroff. Max couldn't I see that; nor Olga. But you were bound by no oath." "My child, I was bound by something stronger than an oath."
"For his happiness with his English wife, Max and I have paid every day of our lives! . . . As soon as I was of age, I refused the State allowance granted me as a daughter of Boris Mazaroff, and left the Ruvanian Court. Since then I've lived in England as plain Miss Lermontof, and earned my own living. Not one penny of their tainted money will I touch!" fiercely. "But Max Max!" broke in Diana.
"You mean Adrienne?" whispered Diana, as Olga paused an instant, shaken by emotion. "Yes, I mean Adrienne Nadine Mazaroff. Her parents were killed in the Ruvanian revolution butchered by the mob on the very steps of the palace. But she herself was saved by my brother.
All at once, he seemed to have receded very far away from her, to have been snatched into a world whither she would never be able to follow him. "Max?" Olga's face darkened. "No not Max, but Nadine Mazaroff." "Nadine Mazaroff?" repeated Diana uncomprehendingly. "Who is Nadine Mazaroff?" "She is the woman you knew as Adrienne de Gervais." "Adrienne? Is that her name Nadine Mazaroff?
Tell me," she continued, with an effort, "tell me about Nadine Mazaroff." "Nadine?" cried Olga, with sudden violence. "Nadine Mazaroff is the woman I hate more than any other on this earth!" Her eyes gleamed malevolently. "She stands where Max should stand. If it were not for her the Ruvanian people would have accepted him as their ruler and overlooked his English mother.
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