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Updated: June 14, 2025
'If I had been at all timid, she murmured, 'I should have been very much frightened at first.... That is one of the stories I want to tell you. The people in the neighbourhood told it to me. Perhaps it isn't true, but it will amuse us, at any rate. Then she came and sat down by Serge's side. 'It is years and years since it all happened.
Once, however, she lost sound of Serge's movements. So, in her turn, she set about seeking him; and she was surprised, almost vexed, when she discovered him under a plum-tree, of whose existence she herself had been ignorant, and whose ripe fruit had a delicious musky perfume. She soundly rated him. Did he want to eat everything himself, that he hadn't called to her to come?
He was born in the province of Posen, so violently seized on by Prussia, that octopus of Europe. Serge's father had been killed during the insurrection of 1848, and he, when a year old, was brought by his uncle, Thaddeus Panine, to France, and was educated at the College Rollin, where he had not acquired over much learning.
Then she sank into silence with gleaming eyes and lips tightly pressed lest the words she kept back should spring out in spite of her. And she stayed in the room till evening, trying to meet Serge's glance, and imparting to him, each time that their eyes met, something of that which she had discovered.
He kept his eyes fixed upon the priest as he spoke, but he did not detect so much as a quiver of Serge's eyelids. 'She took great care of you, you know, he added, more roughly. 'Without her, my boy, you might now be in one of the cells at Les Tulettes, with a strait waistcoat on.... Well, I promised that you would go to see her. I will take you with me. It will be a farewell meeting.
Le Bride, with his inseparable friend, Du Tremblay, escorting Lady Harton, Serge's beautiful cousin, who had caused Micheline some anxiety on the day of her marriage, but whom she no longer feared; then the Prince and Princess Odescalchi, Venetian nobles, followed by Monsieur Clement Souverain, a young Belgian, starter of the Nice races, a great pigeon shot, and a mad leader of cotillons.
Since Serge's return to Les Artaud, the Brother had thus spent most of his evenings at the parsonage; but never before had he imposed his presence upon the other in so rough a fashion.
He turned toward Micheline with exquisite grace and said: "Your mother receives her friends this evening, I think, Mademoiselle; I shall have the honor of paying my respects to her." And taking leave of Jeanne with a smile, and of Pierre with a courteous bow, he left, accompanied by Cayrol. Serge's departure was a relief to Micheline.
We have the proud proprietor and his wife, both of them liberals; we have the pedagogue Osmerkov, who does not like talented people because they bother everybody; and then there are the respectable inhabitants of Gniezdelovka, Serge's father and mother, who are entirely absorbed with their household and with cards.
He turned toward Micheline with exquisite grace and said: "Your mother receives her friends this evening, I think, Mademoiselle; I shall have the honor of paying my respects to her." And taking leave of Jeanne with a smile, and of Pierre with a courteous bow, he left, accompanied by Cayrol. Serge's departure was a relief to Micheline.
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