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Then his ceremonious manner melted a little, and he again kissed his old friend's hand. "Dear Tantine, have no fears. I promise you it shall be for our happiness." The Princess was deeply moved. She knew there must be something underneath all this, but she was accustomed to believe Gritzko blindly, and she felt that if he gave his word, things must be right. She would ask no questions.
"It ought to be just your affair." "Why my affair?" Tamara asked, annoyed. "I hate bridge." "So you do. I forgot. But Tantine will take you, all the same. Perhaps, if nothing more amusing turns up, I will drop in one night and see; but wheugh!" and he stretched himself and spread out his hands "I have been impossibly sage for over a fortnight. I believe I must soon break out."
There they had hardly taken seats when Cupid reappeared bearing to the visitor, on a silver tray, the manuscript. It was not opened and dived into with the fine flurry of the modern stage. Its recipient took time to praise the bower and pool, and the sisters laughed gratefully, clutched hands, and merrily called their niece "tantine." "You know, Mr.
"Tantine," said the Prince, "order your motor to go back. I sent for my troika, and it is here. We must show Madame Loraine what a sleigh feels like." And the Princess agreed. Oh! the pleasure Tamara found when presently they were flying over the snow, the side horses galloping with swift, sure feet.
Sylvia came closer to her and sat down on a straight-backed chair. She was dressed for the street, and hatted, as though she herself had gone out to mail the letter. "And now, Tantine," she said, with the resolute air of one broaching a difficult subject, "I think I ought to be planning to go home very soon." It was a momentous speech, and a momentous pause followed it.
Then she spoke more severely to him in Russian, and he laughed while he answered, and then presently the bandage was done, and standing on tip-toe he looked full at Tamara. "And you think I must not kiss her? Oh! you are a most cruel Tantine! She is sound asleep and would never know, and it would be just one of the things which could cool my fever and help my arm."
"It is an acquired taste, and if you have a particularly sensitive ear the music will make you feel inclined to scream. It drives me mad." "Gritzko," the Princess whispered to him. "You promise to be sage, dear boy, do you not? Sometimes you alarm me when you go too far." "Tantine!" and he kissed her hand. "Your words are law!" "Alas! if that were only true," she said with a sigh.
He and the Princess Ardácheff were no real blood relations; the first wife of her late husband had been his mother's sister, but the tradition of aunt had gone on in the family and the Princess loved him almost as a son. He had always called her "Tantine" as though she had been his real aunt.
That old 'ouse we're inhabiting here, tha'z like us, ha, ha! a pritty antique. Tha'z mo' suit' for a relique than to live in, especially for Tantine ha, ha! tha'z auntie, yet tha'z what we call our niece. Aline juz' in plaisanterie! biccause she take' so much mo' care of us than us of her." Mrs. Chester had stopped to look around her.
Stépan's face, as he stood holding the reins, was as stolid as though nothing unusual had occurred. So they started. "I told the messenger to tell Tantine that we were caught in the snow," he said, "and had to take shelter at the farm. There is a farm a verst to the right after one passes the forest.
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