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And there were crowds of others. That was one of her suitors now she pointed out Tornik, who was taking tea with a group from the Austrian Embassy. He was most attractive, didn't John think so? In Nina's place, she would have her head turned! This idea seemed to be a new one to Derby. "Should you?" The question was asked so reflectively that Mrs.
The Countess Kate, not to be outdone by her decorator, was as new as her surroundings in the latest style of sheath dress, of a brilliant blue, which she wore triumphantly, regardless of the strain with which it stretched across the amplitude of her bosom. The company consisted of the Oliscos, Count Tornik, Prince Minotti, Count Rosso, Prince Allegro, Eliot Porter, and John Derby.
"Such a name is in itself higher than a title." Don Cesare bowed to Don Giovanni as though to say, "You see! thus it is!" The subject would have simmered down, had not Tornik at this point set it boiling, by saying in an undertone to Nina, "Why all this fuss? It is stupid, don't you think?" He spoke in French, carelessly articulated, but the sharp ears of Carpazzi overheard.
"Does a Principe Minotti" he pronounced the word "Principe" with a sneering curl of the lips "dare to criticize a Carpazzi?" He threw back his head with a jerk. "What is he?" whispered Nina to Tornik, who was sitting next her. "Is he a duke?" "A Don, that is all, I believe." Softly as the question was put and answered, Carpazzi heard.
I wonder why you went into the army?" "It is the only career open to me." Nina was thinking of Giovanni and his point of view as she asked, "Why are you not content to be merely Count Tornik?" "You mean that I, like Carpazzi, should live on the illustriousness of my name? If I were very poor, perhaps I should." "How curious!" Nina exclaimed. "Does not a career mean making money?"
Finally, as she and the princess were alighting at the Palazzo Sansevero, Count Tornik drove into the courtyard, and together they mounted to the apartments used by the family. Nina settled herself in the corner of a sofa, pulling off her gloves. Tornik dropped into a loose-jointed heap in a big chair opposite. Suddenly he sat up straight, his eyebrows lifted. "I did not know!" he said.
But no sooner had she caught sight of his face than she started as though some one had dashed cold water over her. Tornik! It was unbelievable! His eyes glowed like coals; his lips, half opened, looked dry and burnt, as with that drawing-in motion of the confirmed gambler he stretched out his trembling fingers to grasp the last of the evening's winnings.
Finally, Tornik and Allegro got into a discussion about the Austrian influence in Italy, and Nina was left tête-
She half wondered if there had been a love affair between him and the Contessa. Maybe he had wanted to marry her and she had accepted Potensi instead. She wondered if Giovanni still cared; and for a while her sympathy was quite aroused. The curtain went up and every one stopped talking. At the beginning of the entr'acte Giovanni left the box, and Count Tornik took his chair.
Again Tornik bowed, offered his arm, and without addressing a further remark to her, led her to the Princess Sansevero. As he took leave of her his expression showed a glimpse of understanding, a momentary illumination. She felt for an instant a possibility of his attractiveness, but just as she became curious he was gone.
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