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Updated: June 24, 2025
Then then" Diana's breath came unevenly "she's not Max's sister?" "No" shortly. "She is or will be within a week the Grand Duchess of Ruvania." "Go on," urged Diana, as the other paused. "Go on. Tell me everything. I know so much already that it can't be breaking faith with any one for you to tell me the whole truth now." Olga looked at her consideringly. "No.
Olga repeated, and by the sudden narrowing of her eyes, as though she were all at once "on guard," Diana knew that her shot in the dark had gone home. "What do you mean? Why Ruvania?" Diana faced her squarely. Despite her feverish desire to wring the truth from the other woman, she had herself well in hand, and when she spoke it was with a certain dignity.
"And that he is involved in Ruvanian politics. Something is going to happen there, in Ruvania " "Yes to that also. Something is going to happen there. The republic is down and out, and the last of the Mazaroffs is going to receive back the ducal crown." There was a tinge of mockery in Miss Lermontof's curt tones. Diana gave a cry of dismay. "Not not Max?" she stammered.
"It would be curious if there proved to be a connecting link between this whisper and the recent disappearance from the stage of the popular actress who has been so closely associated with the plays emanating from the gifted pen of that same dramatist. "Interested readers should carefully watch forthcoming events in the little state of Ruvania."
God knows, it hasn't been easy! But what could I do? I conceive that a man's honour stands before everything. That was why I let you believe what you did. My word was given. I couldn't clear myself. . . . So you see, now, beloved, why we must part." "No," she said quietly. "I don't see. Why can't I come to Ruvania with you?" A sudden light leaped into his eyes, but it died away almost instantly.
That yarn about the actor down on his luck was cooked up for the papers, just to throw dust in the eyes of the public. . . . To watch over Nadine's safety has been my work. Now the time has come when she can go back and take her place as Grand Duchess of Ruvania. And I must go with her." "No, no. Why need you go? You'll have done your work, set her securely on the throne.
Her thoughts raced onward, envisaging the possibilities involved. There were no dukes of Ruvania now; that she knew. The little State, close on the borders of Russia, had been like so many of the smaller Eastern States convulsed by a revolution, some ten years ago, and since then had been governed by a republic.
Was the explanation of all that had so mystified her to be found in the fact that Max was a political exile? The Tattle of the Town paragraph practically suggested, that the affairs of the "well-known dramatist" were in some way bound up with the destiny of Ruvania. That was indicated plainly enough in the reference to "forthcoming events."
When you, my little Pepperpot, had not yet come to earth to torment your parents, but were still just a tiny thought in the corner of God's mind, I your old Baroni I was in Ruvania." "You in Ruvania?" He nodded. "Yes. I went there first as a professor of singing at the Borovnitz Conservatoire per Bacco! But they haf the very soul of music, those Ruvanians!
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