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Updated: May 27, 2025
The two Princes Shadursky, father and son, both lost heavily. They sat opposite Sergei Kovroff, and between them sat Baroness von Döring, who played in alliance with them.
"Hm yes! very enticing," answered Kovroff. "A fine chance for anyone who has the money." "I would not object! I would not object!" protested Shadursky. "Suppose you let me become acquainted with your friend." "You? Well " And Kovroff considered; "if you wish. Why not?
It happened that Prince Shadursky was an admirer of the fair sex, and also that he had had the pleasure of meeting the brilliant Baroness von Döring at Hamburg, and again in Paris. It was, therefore, to be expected that Baroness von Döring should be found in the midst of an admiring throng at Princess Shadursky's reception.
I assume that the government price is known to your excellency?" "But I am willing to take two hundred rubles a pound." I can't take a kopeck less, and even so I am making a reduction of nearly a hundred rubles the pound." "All right!" assented Shadursky. "That will amount to " he went on, knitting his brows, "forty-five pounds at two hundred rubles a pound "
Here they are and I am most willing to show them." And he dragged from under the bed a big trunk, in which were five canvas bags of various sizes, packed full and tied tightly. "Here, here it is! This is our Siberian dust," he said, smiling and bowing, indicating the trunk with a wave of his hand, as if introducing it to Prince Shadursky.
Here they are and I am most willing to show them." And he dragged from under the bed a big trunk, in which were five canvas bags of various sizes, packed full and tied tightly. "Here, here it is! This is our Siberian dust," he said, smiling and bowing, indicating the trunk with a wave of his hand, as if introducing it to Prince Shadursky.
I introduce this fact to illustrate the difficulties put in the way of enterprise by our intelligent government." Shadursky did not greatly occupy himself with serious questions and he was totally ignorant of all details of financial undertakings. It was, therefore, perfectly easy for Sergei Antonovitch to assume a tone of solid, practical sense, which imposed completely on the young prince.
The prince, cutting the matter short, immediately gave him a check, and taking the trunk with the coveted bags, drove with the Siberian employee to his father's house, where the elder Prince Shadursky, at his son's pressing demand, though very unwillingly, exchanged the check for nine thousand rubles in bills, for which Ivan Ivanovitch Valyajnikoff forthwith gave a receipt.
"How much a pound do you want?" Shadursky asked him. "A pretty low price, your excellency," answered the Siberian, with a shrug of his shoulders, "as I am selling from extreme necessity, because I have to leave for Siberia; I've spent too much time and money in St. Petersburg already; and if I cannot sell my wares, I shall not be able to go at all.
The chief thing is, that our problem is solved in the most decisive manner. You and I are pretty fair judges of human nature, so we may be pretty sure that we shall always find purchasers, and I suggest that we make a beginning on young Prince Shadursky. How we shall get him into it is my business. I'll tell you later on. But how do you like the general idea of my plan?"
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