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As I had known Count Orloff in Russia, I imagined that I might possibly render myself of service to him, and at the same time make my fortune. The English ambassador having given me a letter for the English consul, I left Turin with very little money in my purse and no letter of credit on any banker.
Singly, I do not fear them; but together Orloff is the loaded cannon, and Panin the lighted match, and if I am not wary " Here, as though he had felt the shock of the ball, Potemkin sprang from his seat, and swung his hands above his head. But presently he sank back into his chair, and continued his meditations. "I must spike Orloff before he destroys me.
My name is Regnar Orloff Hubel." "Well, Regnie, all I can tell you now is, that the young lady's English is not the best in the world, and that she is an orphan child. Of the whereabouts of her adopted father she knows nothing, but in a book which I took up there one day, I found written, 'A. P. Randall; and Mrs. Randall said " "What?" asked Regnar, hoarsely. "That it belonged to her brother.
I did not understand the language, so M. Zinowieff translated the curious sallies to me while the applause they had raised was still resounding. Melissino rose to his feet, holding a large goblet full of Hungarian wine in his hand. There was a general silence to listen to him. He drank the health of General Orloff in these words: "May you die when you become rich."
She was satisfied, the great, the sublime empress satisfied with the work Alexis Orloff had accomplished, and with the manner in which it was done. In the presence of her confidential friends she permitted Orloff's messenger, Joseph Ribas, to relate to her all the particulars of the affair from the commencement to the end, and to the narrator she nodded her approval with a fell smile.
But the great show of the night was the Russian Ambassador, Count Orloff, whose gigantic figure was all in a blaze with jewels, and in whose demeanour the untamed ferocity of the Scythian might be discerned through a thin varnish of French politeness.
He looked at the faces of his guests, and after a long silent pause, he smiled faintly into his beard. "Let us go back to the fire," he said, and clicked them into darkness again. "And what do you say?" he asked as they sat down. "By Jove!" cried the doctor. "By Jove!" Madame Orloff turned on the collector the somber glow of her deep-set eyes. "I have dreamed it," she said.
Woronzoff-Daschkoff and General Annenkoff. The Caucasian railways and the annexation of Bokhara. Galkin Wraskoy and the prison system Orloff Davidoff, "the funniest thing he saw in America." Professor Demetrieff's account of the murder of Peter III and of the relation of Catherine II to it.
The Punishment of Marazzani I Leave Lugano Turin M. Dubois at Parma Leghorn The Duke of Orloff Pisa Stratico Sienna The Marchioness Chigi My Departure from Sienna With an Englishwoman These unforeseen, haphazard meetings with old friends have always been the happiest moments of my life. We all remained for some time dumb with delight.
As I had known Count Orloff in Russia, I imagined that I might possibly render myself of service to him, and at the same time make my fortune. The English ambassador having given me a letter for the English consul, I left Turin with very little money in my purse and no letter of credit on any banker.
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