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"I came to see Prince Pavlo," answered Steinmetz. "I must thank you for enabling me to do so. I may not see you again this evening. My best thanks, my very dear lady." He bowed, and with his half-humorous, half-melancholy smile, left her. The first face he recognized was a pretty one.
If we suppose it possible that dogs could be taught to act and think for themselves; if we take such a development as practicable, and consider the possibilities of social upheaval lying behind such an education, we can in a minute degree realize the problem which Prince Pavlo Alexis and all his fellow-nobles will be called upon to solve within the lifetime of men already born.
"But my knowledge of the betrayal of the Charity League is sufficient for my purpose." "Yes," admitted Steinmetz grimly, "you have information there with possibilities of mischief in it. But I shall discount most of it by telling Prince Pavlo to-night all that I know, and I know more than you do. Also, I intend to seal your lips before you leave this room."
Our only hope is that it may burn itself out. The talkers must get hoarse in time." Lanovitch shook his head. "They have been talking since the days of Ananias," he said, "and they are not hoarse yet. I fear, Pavlo, there will never be peace in the world until the talkers are hoarse." "How did you get here?" asked Paul, who was always businesslike. "I brought a pack on my back and sold cotton.
Not because Prince Pavlo wanted to give the peasants work, not because he wanted to save them from starvation not at all, although, in the gratification of his own whim, he happened to render those trifling services; but merely because he was a great "bárin" a prince who could have any thing he desired. Had not the other bárin Steinmetz by name superintended the work?
Etta was listening now with ill-disguised interest. At last he had given her something definite a date. "On Thursday," he went on, "the peasants will make a demonstration. You know as well as I do as well as Prince Pavlo does, despite his imperturbable face that the whole country is a volcano which may break forth at any moment.
I made myself known to the starosta, and he communicated with good Karl here." "Did you learn any thing in the village?" asked Paul. "No; they suspected me. They would not talk. But I understand them, Pavlo, these poor simple fools. A pebble in the stream would turn the current of their convictions. Tell them who is the Moscow doctor. It is your only chance."
He threw his arms around him, and embraced him after the simple manner of Russia. Then he held him at arm's length. "Stépan!" said Paul. "No, I did not know you." Stépan Lanovitch was still holding him at arm's length, examining him with the large faint blue eyes which so often go with an exaggerated philanthropy. "Old," he muttered, "old! Ah, my poor Pavlo!
I heard in Kiew you know how we outlaws hear such things that you were in trouble, so I came to you." Steinmetz in the background raised his patient eyebrows. "There are two men in the world," went on the voluble Lanovitch, "who can manage the moujiks of Tver you and I; so I came. I will help you, Pavlo; I will stand by you. Together we can assuredly quell this revolt."
He is an inveterate, incurable fool. If he is going to be a dangerous fool as well, I should almost be inclined to let him go to the devil in his own way." "I dare say; but you are not in my position." "No; that is true, Pavlo. They were not my father's serfs. Generations of my ancestors have not saved generations of their ancestors from starvation.
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