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Updated: June 6, 2025
"And what shall you do afterwards?" He looked at me vaguely, but it was clear that he had not understood perhaps had not even heard my questions. Then I tried to get him to speak of Polina and the children, but he only returned brief answers of "Yes, yes," and again started to maunder about the Prince, and the likelihood of the latter marrying Mlle. Blanche.
Polina spent the whole of that day either in walking about the park with the nurse and children or in sitting in her own room. Yes, that I had noticed. Still, even though I was aware of the position in which the General was placed, it had never occurred to me that he would have any reason to avoid HER, or to trouble her with family explanations.
Is the General, for instance, indoors?" "Yes; and probably all of them." "Do they observe the convenances, and keep up appearances? Such things always give one tone. I have heard that they are keeping a carriage, even as Russian gentlefolks ought to do. When abroad, our Russian people always cut a dash. Is Prascovia here too?" "Yes. Polina Alexandrovna is here." "And the Frenchwoman?
Likewise pardon me what is to become of this family? I mean that the affair of the General and Mlle. Polina will soon be all over the town." "I daresay; yet, I hardly suppose that that will break the General's heart. Moreover, Mlle. Polina has a perfect right to live where she chooses. In short, we may say that, as a family, this family has ceased to exist."
If so, possess yourself of it, and send it to De Griers." "No, no; the General has not got it." "Just as I expected! Well, what is the General going to do?" Then an idea suddenly occurred to me. "What about the Grandmother?" I asked. Polina looked at me with impatience and bewilderment. "What makes you speak of HER?" was her irritable inquiry. "I cannot go and live with her.
Then I bowed again, put on my hat, and walked past the Baron with a rude smile on my face. Polina had ordered me merely to take off my hat: the bow and the general effrontery were of my own invention. God knows what instigated me to perpetrate the outrage! In my frenzy I felt as though I were walking on air.
Yet it was clear that the General had a great fear of the Casino itself: for why should a person who had lost the use of her limbs more especially an old woman be going to rooms which were set apart only for roulette? On either side of the wheeled chair walked Polina and Mlle.
Look at her especially when she is sitting alone, and plunged in thought. All this was pre-ordained and foretold, and is accursed. Polina could perpetrate any mad act. She she But who called me by name?" I broke off. "Who is shouting for me? I heard some one calling in Russian, 'Alexis Ivanovitch! It was a woman's voice. Listen!" At the moment, we were approaching my hotel.
Without knocking at the door, or in any way announcing our presence, I threw open the portals, and the Grandmother was borne through them in triumph. As though of set purpose, the whole party chanced at that moment to be assembled in the General's study. The General was present, and also Polina, the children, the latter's nurses, De Griers, Mlle.
Polina well, you yourself know that, if necessity drives, one enters into relation with people whom one simply detests. Even between this couple there may be something which, though unknown to you, depends upon extraneous circumstances. For, my own part, I think that you may reassure yourself or at all events partially. And as for Mlle. Polina are, to say the least of it, unbecoming.
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