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Updated: June 27, 2025
Meanwhile the Princess Ardácheff watched her with a faint sensation of uneasiness, and at last whispered to Stephen Strong: "Does not my godchild seem to be developing new characteristics, Stephen? She is so very stately and quiet; and yet to-night it would almost seem she is being flirtatious with Boris Varishkine. I trust we shall have no complications. What do you think?" Mr. Strong laughed.
When they had finished and were seated again she plucked up courage to ask him: "Prince, I feel sure Count Varishkine is not really ill. Something has happened. Tell me what it is." "I never intended you to dance the Mazurka with him," was all Gritzko said. "And how have you prevented it?" Tamara asked, and grew pale to her lips. "What does it matter to you?" he said.
So Valonne left to be in time for the ball, but this morning, he told me, he found Boris Varishkine had had a shoulder wound which bled very badly and quite prevented his coming, while Gritzko was shot through the flesh of the right arm, and as soon as they could bind it up decently, as you know, he came on." Tamara's face was as white as her pillow.
For a moment Tamara hesitated; she seemed to have lost the power of speech; she felt she must control her anxiety and curiosity, so at last she answered gravely: "I am so very sorry! I hope it is nothing serious. He is so charming, Count Varishkine." "Nothing serious. Shall we take our places? I have two chairs there not far from Olga and your friend," and the Prince prepared to lead the way.
She clasped her hands with a movement of anguish. "Oh! Marraine, I am too unhappy," she wailed. "Indeed, indeed, I did nothing to cause this. You heard me, I only said to Count Varishkine I was looking forward to the dance. He is impossible, Gritzko. Oh! let me go home!" "Alas! my child, what would be the good of that?
On the contrary, he told her casually that Gritzko had been on some duty these three days, in case she did not know it. From the beginning Tamara always had liked Valonne. Then into the box came the same good-looking Chevalier Garde, Count Varishkine, whom she had talked to on the last occasion of Gritzko's visit, and the spirit of hurt pride caused her to be most gracious with him.
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