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Again to attack the palace; to put Leo Narychkine and other partisans of Peter to death; to arrest his mother, and to expel the patriarch. They trusted that Peter and Natalia would perish in the tumult. The streltsi remained indifferent when Sophia, affecting to think her life threatened, fled to the Dievitchi monastery, and sent them letters of entreaty.
She had the air of some one confronted by an unpleasant task. "Am I to understand that you must communicate with Mr. Razumov this evening?" Natalia Haldin moved her head affirmatively; then, after a glance at the door of the drawing-room, said in French "C'est maman," and remained perplexed for a moment.
The terem, of which we hear so much, was the part of the palace sacred to the Tsaritsa and the Princesses upon whose faces no man ever looked. If a physician were needed he might feel the pulse and the temperature through a piece of gauze but see the face never. It is said that two nobles who one day accidentally met Natalia coming from her chapel were deprived of rank in consequence.
The conductors were closing the doors, inviting the passengers to take seats, others to leave the cars. Nekhludoff entered the heated and ill-smelling car and immediately appeared on its platform. Natalia Ivanovna was standing opposite, and evidently wished to say something, but could not find words.
"Our Sophia Antonovna wishes to be made known to you," he addressed me, in his guarded voice. "And so I leave you two to have a talk together." "I would never have intruded myself upon your notice," the grey-haired lady began at once, "if I had not been charged with a message for you." It was a message of a few friendly words from Natalia Haldin.
Doubtless the natives who had flourished under the nourishing care of the mission in its palmy days, wagged their heads wittingly when the brig Natalia met her fate. Tradition says Napoleon I. made his escape from Elba on that brig. It was by the Natalia that Hijar, Director of Colonization, arrived for the purpose of secularizing the missions; and his scheme was soon accomplished.
Nobody who saw her grief could say that it was consciously exaggerated, for its expression was too strong and touching; yet for some reason or another my sympathy went out more to Natalia Savishna, and to this day I am convinced that nobody loved and regretted Mamma so purely and sincerely as did that simple-hearted, affectionate being.
"You are concealing something from me," she exclaimed. "Do you, Natalia Victorovna, believe in the duty of revenge?" "Listen, Kirylo Sidorovitch. I believe that the future shall be merciful to us all. Revolutionist and reactionary, victim and executioner, betrayer and betrayed, they shall all be pitied together when the light breaks on our black sky at last.
She sits with him as long and as often as they will let her," I said. "She says she must never abandon him never as long as she lives. He'll need somebody a hopeless cripple, and stone deaf with that." "Stone deaf? I didn't know," murmured Natalia Haldin. "He is. It seems strange. I am told there were no apparent injuries to the head.
He declared, further, that he had intended to go every day, but had always been prevented by circumstances; but that now he would promise himself the pleasure however far it was, he would find them out. And so Ivan Petrovitch REALLY knew Natalia Nikitishna! what a saintly nature was hers! and Martha Nikitishna! Ivan Petrovitch must excuse him, but really he was not quite fair on dear old Martha.
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