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Updated: May 5, 2025
When the heavy, gold-bordered silken portiere had fallen, the tyrant spoke. "Now let us hear your report," said he, seating himself before his toilet-mirror, where first he cleaned his dazzling white teeth, and then pared his nails. The minister of police, in an attitude of profound respect, began to go over the occurrences of the past two days in St. Petersburg.
The shabby chest of drawers was spread with a lace cover, and set out with a few gold-topped boxes and bottles, a rose-coloured pin-cushion, a glass tray strewn with tortoise-shell hair-pins he shrank from the poignant intimacy of these trifles, and from the blank surface of the toilet-mirror above them.
But when at length, in her dressing-gown, her loosened hair about her shoulders, she seated herself before the toilet-mirror, Wyant's note once more confronted her. It was absurd to put off reading it if he asked for money again, she would simply confide the whole business to Amherst. She had never spoken to her husband of her correspondence with Wyant.
The countess passed into her dressing-room. She closed and locked the door, then, going across the room, she stopped before a large picture that hung opposite to her rich Venetian toilet-mirror. The frame of this picture was ornamented with small gilt rosettes. Margaret laid her hand upon one of these rosettes, and drew it toward her. A noise of machinery was heard behind the wall.
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