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Updated: June 29, 2025
The great colony of foreigners who came every week to Panine's receptions brought with them their immoderate passion for cards, and he was only too willing to give way to it.
His glance seemed to be fathoming the depths of Panine's pockets, and the latter instinctively tightened his arms across his chest, so that Herzog might not see that his pocketbook was empty. "What are you talking about?" asked Serge, at last, with a constrained smile. "About things which must greatly interest you," said Herzog, familiarly. "Come, be sincere.
"Jeanne!" called the voice of Cayrol from the outside, sounding mournfully in the silence, "Jeanne, open!" And with his fist he knocked imperatively on the woodwork. "I know you are there! Open, I say!" he cried, with increasing rage. "If you don't open the door, I'll " "Go! I beseech you!" whispered Jeanne, in Panine's ear. "Go downstairs again, and break open the door.
It is hardly worth while between you and me." And taking Panine's arm Herzog walked on with him. "Your carriage is there? all right, mine will follow. I want to talk to you. Your troubles cannot last. I will show you the means of extricating yourself and that without delay, my dear sir." And without consulting Panine he seated himself beside him in the carriage.
From that time he lost the sense of right and wrong. He admitted the unlikely, and found the impossible quite natural. He was a docile tool in the hands of Herzog. The rumor of this unforeseen change in Panine's circumstances soon reached Madame Desvarennes's ears.
She felt in the way, and uncomfortable. The smiling and superficial politeness of the visitors irritated her nerves. These people were too well bred to be rude toward Panine's mother-in-law, but she felt that their politeness was forced. Under their affected nicety she detected irony. She began to hate them all. Serge, sovereign lord of Cernay, was really happy.
She felt in the way, and uncomfortable. The smiling and superficial politeness of the visitors irritated her nerves. These people were too well bred to be rude toward Panine's mother-in-law, but she felt that their politeness was forced. Under their affected nicety she detected irony. She began to hate them all. Serge, sovereign lord of Cernay, was really happy.
The quiet young girl became animated when Serge was there. Was there love in this transformation? Cayrol did not hesitate. He guessed at once that the future would be Panine's, and that the maintenance of his own influence in the house of Desvarennes depended on the attitude which he was about to take.
The great colony of foreigners who came every week to Panine's receptions brought with them their immoderate passion for cards, and he was only too willing to give way to it.
It is hardly worth while between you and me." And taking Panine's arm Herzog walked on with him. "Your carriage is there? all right, mine will follow. I want to talk to you. Your troubles cannot last. I will show you the means of extricating yourself and that without delay, my dear sir." And without consulting Panine he seated himself beside him in the carriage.
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