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Updated: May 9, 2025
Some tommyrot about a conspiracy against the Czar. But just what it was I was never told. I am forbidden to re-enter Russia." "I don't understand at all," said Boris. "Mikail can't want to keep your mother's property for himself. He is a very rich man by far the richest of the family, though none of the Suvaroffs are poor. And I know about your mother's lands, because they are next to our own."
It gave Fred a certain thrill to feel himself in touch with such things, to know that he belonged to such a family as the Suvaroffs, capable of inspiring such devotion in its retainers which, though Boris regarded it as a matter of course, seemed a great thing to Fred, with his American upbringing. "What a piece of luck!" he reflected. "Imagine my stumbling on such a splendid fellow as Boris!
I should not be more than ten minutes behind you in reaching the hollow." Nothing about the whole adventure upon which he had embarked so strangely, and with so little intention on his own part, impressed Fred more than the unquestioning obedience old Vladimir yielded to him. More than ever before, he realized that the Suvaroffs must indeed be as great a family as his mother had declared.
Though she had become a true American, Mrs. Waring had never ceased to love the land of her birth, and she had always tried to impress Fred with her own feeling for the great house to which she had belonged. "Such families as the Suvaroffs can do much harm to themselves and to others," she had said.
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