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Updated: May 19, 2025
The bells continued to ring, the cannon to thunder. There was great rejoicing in St. Petersburg. Issuing from the villa, Count Rasczinsky again mounted his foaming steed. Like a storm-wind swept he over the plain but not toward St. Petersburg, not toward the city where the people were saluting their new emperor!
He desires nothing, no thanks, no acknowledgments he wishes only to secure your peace and happiness, and thus redeem the solemn vow he made to his friend, Count Paulo Rasczinsky, to guard and preserve you as a father, and to watch over you as your tutelar genius!" "Thanks, thanks, my God!" cried Marianne, with her arms raised toward heaven.
"We will take our dinner there, and he may say to our major-domo that we are going to Peterhoff. Then no one will be surprised that we make a short halt at my little villa in passing, or, rather, they will know nothing of it. Call Rasczinsky!" Count Rasczinsky was one of the few who were acquainted with the secret, and might accompany the empress in these visits.
And yet Rasczinsky is gone, and we have known how to keep Cardinal Bernis, who would have interested himself for the little one, so very much occupied with the affair of the Jesuits, that he has yet had no time to think of the princess. Ah, these Jesuits are very useful people.
It has fallen to the Russian crown as the property of the traitor Rasczinsky." "There is only the one error to be corrected," said Joseph Ribas, "that this villa was not the property of Count Rasczinsky, as he some months ago sold it to his friend, my master. And as, so far as I know, the illustrious count, my master, never was a traitor, you will please to respect his property!"
It concerned the seeing of her daughter how, then, could she have thought writing painful or troublesome? With the same pen with which, a short time before, she had so unwillingly signed the congratulatory letter, she now wrote upon a sheet of paper, provided with her seal these words: "The Count Rasczinsky may be admitted. She handed the paper to the count, who pressed it to his lips.
Count Paul Rasczinsky is sent to Siberia for high-treason his property is confiscated and falls to the state. I have an unlimited power, signed by the empress herself, to seize and sell his possessions here in the name of the empress. Take with you some attorney and officers and go to his villa.
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