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I may add that when your mother was about ten years old, Pavlicheff took her under his care, gave her a good education, and later, a considerable dowry. His relations were alarmed, and feared he might go so far as to marry her, but she gave her hand to a young land-surveyor named Burdovsky when she reached the age of twenty. I can even say definitely that it was a marriage of affection.
"None none whatever," agreed the prince hastily. "I admit you are right there, but it was involuntary, and I immediately said to myself that my personal feelings had nothing to do with it, that if I thought it right to satisfy the demands of Mr. Burdovsky, out of respect for the memory of Pavlicheff, I ought to do so in any case, whether I esteemed Mr. Burdovsky or not.
"Of course I can't argue the matter, because I know only my own case; but my doctor gave me money and he had very little to pay my journey back, besides having kept me at his own expense, while there, for nearly two years." "Why? Was there no one else to pay for you?" asked the black-haired one. "No Mr. Pavlicheff, who had been supporting me there, died a couple of years ago. I wrote to Mrs.
A man of rank, too, and rich a man who, if he had continued to serve, might have done anything; and then to throw up the service and everything else in order to go over to Roman Catholicism and turn Jesuit openly, too almost triumphantly. By Jove! it was positively a mercy that he died when he did it was indeed everyone said so at the time." The prince was beside himself. "Pavlicheff?
I may add that I discovered yet another fact, the last on which I employed my detective powers. Seeing how fond Pavlicheff was of you, it was thanks to him you went to school, and also had the advantage of special teachers his relations and servants grew to believe that you were his son, and that your father had been betrayed by his wife.
They both now lived in another province, on a small estate left to them by Pavlicheff. The prince listened to all this with eyes sparkling with emotion and delight. He declared with unusual warmth that he would never forgive himself for having travelled about in the central provinces during these last six months without having hunted up his two old friends.
It is quite true that we did not present ourselves humbly, like your flatterers and parasites, but holding up our heads as befits independent men. We ask you fairly and squarely in a dignified manner. Do you believe that in this affair of Burdovsky you have right on your side? Do you admit that Pavlicheff overwhelmed you with benefits, and perhaps saved your life? Yes or no?
WHILE he feasted his eyes upon Aglaya, as she talked merrily with Evgenie and Prince N., suddenly the old anglomaniac, who was talking to the dignitary in another corner of the room, apparently telling him a story about something or other suddenly this gentleman pronounced the name of "Nicolai Andreevitch Pavlicheff" aloud. The prince quickly turned towards him, and listened.
"Wasn't it this same Pavlicheff about whom there was a strange story in connection with some abbot? I don't remember who the abbot was, but I remember at one time everybody was talking about it," remarked the old dignitary. "Yes Abbot Gurot, a Jesuit," said Ivan Petrovitch. "Yes, that's the sort of thing our best men are apt to do.
Pavlicheff, who supported you in Switzerland, I know him too at least, if it was Nicolai Andreevitch of that name? A fine fellow he was and had a property of four thousand souls in his day." "Yes, Nicolai Andreevitch that was his name," and the young fellow looked earnestly and with curiosity at the all-knowing gentleman with the red nose.
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