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You had better go and leave our cards to-day on the Countess Shulski, and another of mine, as well, for the uncle. We'll have to swallow the whole lot, I suppose." "I rather like Mr. Markrute, Papa," Ethelrida said. "I talked to him the other night for the first time; he is extremely intelligent. We ought not to be so prejudiced, perhaps, just because he is a foreigner, and in the City.
Meanwhile Zara Shulski had arrived at Bournemouth. She had started early in the morning, and she was making a careful investigation of the house. The doctor appeared all that was kind and clever, and his wife gentle and sweet. Mirko could not have a nicer home, it seemed.
They felt it was a momentous moment, because Lady Tancred never saw any one until her hair was arranged not even her own daughters. "Your brother Tristram is going to be married," she said and referred to the letter lying on the coverlet, "to a Countess Shulski, a niece of that Mr. Markrute whom one meets about." "Oh! Mother!" and "Really!" gasped Emily and Mary. "Have we seen her?"
Lady Tancred's hand trembled a little as she poured it out, but she did not say anything, and there was silence for a minute, while his lordship went on with his breakfast, with appetite unimpaired. "I will take the girls and call there immediately after lunch," she said presently, "and I am to ask for the Countess Shulski. You pronounce it like that, do you not?" "Yes.
The Countess Shulski had been through many vicissitudes with these two since her husband's death, but seldom only once perhaps had they gone down to such poverty-stricken surroundings. Generally it was some small apartment in Paris, or Florence, that they occupied, with rather scanty meals when the end of the quarter came.
I am sure Countess Shulski will forgive her, and you, too. She wants to know if Countess Shulski will let Tristram bring her to-morrow morning, without any more ceremony, to see her and stay to luncheon." Thus it was settled and this necessitated a change in the table arrangements.
Countess Shulski was silent for a few moments, while both Mimo and Mirko watched her face anxiously. She had thrown back her veil. "And supposing you do not sell the 'Apache, Mimo? Your own money does not come in until Christmas; mine is all gone until January, and it is the cold winter approaching and cold is not good for Mirko. What then?" Count Sykypri moved uneasily.
When Zara Shulski came into any assemblage of people conversation stopped and speculation began. She was rather tall and very slender; and yet every voluptuous curve of her lithe body refuted the idea of thinness.
The four men the two railway magnates, Francis Markrute, and Lord Tancred had all been waiting a quarter of an hour before the drawing-room fire when the Countess Shulski sailed into the room. She wore an evening gown of some thin, black, transparent, woolen stuff, which clung around her with the peculiar grace her poorest clothes acquired.
Here was a subject she had not snubbed him over! "And you will let me teach you again when we go down to Wrayth, won't you?" But before she could answer they had arrived at the house in Queen Street. Michelham, with a subdued beam on his old face, stood inside the door with his footmen, and Tristram said gayly, "Michelham, this is to be her new ladyship; Countess Shulski" and he turned to Zara.
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