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Updated: June 13, 2025
You have been involved in gambling transactions of such a description that it needed all the influence of your family to save you from public disgrace. To such a man it is impossible that I could intrust my daughter." Count Smerskoff rose to his feet, bursting with passion. "Since you know my reputation, count, it would have been wiser to abstain from insulting me.
The next few days passed pleasantly; sometimes the countess was not present, and then the girls would devote themselves to improving the boys' Russian. Sometimes two sledges would come to the door, and two of the girls accompanied the boys on their drive. On the fourth evening, Count Smerskoff called, and a cloud fell upon the atmosphere.
It is now," he said, turning to Jack, "my duty to inform you that you are in custody for the deliberate murder of Count Smerskoff, as sworn to by him in his last moments." "He was a liar when he was alive," Jack said, "and he died with a falsehood on his lips. However, sir, we are at your orders."
It was no secret that the count was banished from the capital. "The chief of his enemies," Jack went on, "is the governor, Count Smerskoff. He wishes to marry the Countess Katinka, and because the count refuses he will try to injure him and to obtain his exile to Siberia." "I will kill him," the coachman said. "I will slay him in the middle of his soldiers.
He was in disgrace at court, and had enemies who would injure him to the utmost with the emperor, but he believed that no steps would be taken until Count Smerskoff had received his final refusal of Katinka's hand. He had already once proposed for it, but would not consider the answer which her father then gave him as final. "I cannot accept your refusal, count," he had said.
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