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On October 4 Russia sent an ultimatum to Bulgaria and the Russian minister was ordered to leave Sofia if by 4 p.m., October 5, Bulgaria did not definitely break with Germany, Austria and Turkey. All the allied powers supported Russia in this demand.
Then there was this entry: "Charles refuses to see me but tells K not to put any obstacles in my way.... this is a pretty mess!... How in the devil am I to slip through the lines with those devilish English and French officers scattered around everywhere?... If Roumania had only listened to reason!... I think that Mackinzen will be able to help me out, I might as well ask Envir Pasha as these dervishes of Sofia to lend a hand in this affair!... Yet I must, simply MUST be in Odessa in time to meet Vladimir K before the order of execution!... Either that or jump into the Danube!"
For the matter of that, Sofia herself might have been the dupe of this popular delusion which Mama Thérèse did her best to encourage by never referring to Dupont save as "mon mari" had they been less imprudent in recriminations which had passed between them in private when Sofia was of an age so tender that she was presumed to be safely immature of mind.
Into a space perhaps four feet in width from wall to wall and seven deep from the front door to the foot of a cramped flight of crazy wooden stairs, some ten people were crowded, Sofia and the maid Chou Nu in a knot of excited men.
"Princess Sofia Vladimirovna tells me he is a very remarkable preacher," remarked the old Empress, the Emperor's mother, one day to her son: "Faites le venir. Il peut precher a la cathedrale." "No, it would be better in the palace church," said the Emperor, and ordered the hermit Isidor to be invited.
Some two months after that curious experience in Sofia, we were guests of some friends of Rayne's called Baynes, who lived at Enderby Manor, a few miles out of Winchester. The reason of our visit was somewhat obscure, yet as far as I could gather it had no connection with "business."
Departure for the Interior. Belgrade, unlike other towns on the Danube, is much less visited by Europeans, since the introduction of steam navigation, than it was previously. Servia used to be the porte cochere of the East; and most travellers, both before and since the lively Lady Mary Wortley Montague, took the high road to Constantinople by Belgrade, Sofia, Philippopoli, and Adrianople.
"Still," she argued, stubbornly, "I don't see what all this has to do with Lady Randolph West's invitation." "Only that to accept means to expose you to the greatest temptation one can well imagine." Sofia stared blankly. Her wits were working even more slowly and heavily than before. And the glare in her eyes from the luminous sphere of crystal was irritating.
In all three respects, furthermore, it proved notably successful; in the two last named without delay. The Princess Sofia at once took note of Lanyard, with wonder, some misgivings, and a hint of admiration.
Perhaps her pleasure burned the brighter for its dark, ambiguous background those many questions which Prince Victor persisted in leaving unanswered. Sofia knew bad times of perplexity and depression, when the price of translation from drudge to princess seemed a sore price to pay.
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