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Updated: May 21, 2025
I gathered from Grodwitz and others that they managed to enliven their exile with plenty of flirtations, and squabbles. On this evening the Countess Stravensky was holding a reception in her apartments, with dancing and music; and all my usual after-dinner companions were attending it. "Better come, mon ami," urged Grodwitz. "You are not invited?
As I went up to my room I heard the haunting strains of a Hungarian dance from the Stravensky suite, situated on the first floor in the left wing leading from the great hall, while the Duke's apartments were in the right wing. Mishka entered immediately after I had locked the door. "Get your money and anything else you value and can carry on you," he grunted. "You will not return here.
At dinner I heard that the Grand Duke was indisposed, and was dining alone, instead, as usual, with the Count Stravensky, Commandant of the Castle by courtesy the chief member of his suite, but in reality his custodian and two or three other officers of high birth, who, with their wives, formed as it were, the inner circle of this small Court in the wilderness.
He fell silent, and I know he was thinking of the last tragedy, as I was. The memory of it was hard enough for me to bear; what must it not be for Loris? "Yes, there was much trouble," Mishka resumed. "Old Stravensky was summoned to Petersburg, and he had scarcely set out before the revolution began, and the troops were recalled.
"And you said nothing; you are discreet enough in your way. He never suspected, does not even now; he thinks it was a plot hatched by his enemies perhaps by Stravensky himself, the old fox! But we should never have got through to Warsaw, if, for a time, at least, all had not believed that he and I and you were finished off in that affair. Better for him perhaps, if it had been so!"
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