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"She can't feel it," said Struboff, taking his handkerchief and wiping brow and eyes. "She's a fortunate woman," remarked Varvilliers from his sofa. "You'd think she could," said Wetter, taking both her hands and surveying her from top to toe. "You'd think she could understand. Look at her eyes, her brows, her lips. You'd think she could understand. Look at her hands, her waist, her neck.
"I shall say fire, one two three," said Varvilliers. "You will both fire before the last word is ended. Are you ready?" We signified our assent. Wetter was pale, but apparently quite collected. I was very much alive to every impression. For example, I noticed a man's tread outside and the tune that he was whistling. I lifted my pistol and took aim.
Yet she was indolent, and appeared to listen to no more than half of what was said. We finished eating and began to smoke; the wine still went round. Suddenly a pause fell on us. A mot from Varvilliers had set finis to our subject, and another delayed presenting itself. To my surprise Wetter turned to me. "In the Chamber to-night, sire," he said, "there was a question about your marriage."
"You are thinking that I am a strange creature, a new experience," and with this she turned away, although I was about to speak again. Varvilliers' way lay in the same direction as mine, and I took him with me. He chatted gaily as we went. What I liked in the Vicomte was his confident denial of life's alleged seriousness. He seemed much amused at the situation which he proceeded to unfold to me.
It was a comparatively small, although an interestingly unusual, thing that I came to enjoy Elsa's society coupled with Varvilliers', and not to care much about it taken alone; it was a more serious, though far more ordinary, turn of affairs that Elsa should come to be happy enough with me provided that Varvilliers were there to shall I say to take the edge off me? but cared not a jot to meet me in his absence.
He could not have raised the money except at a most extravagant rate. I made no remark, but I knew that he had risked ruin by this repayment, and I knew well why he had made it. He would not have me for creditor as well as for king and rival. Varvilliers burst out laughing. "Upon my word," said he, "these gentlemen of the Chamber can think of nothing but money.
I was hot on another matter, and, raising my voice, I called, "Varvilliers! Where are you, Varvilliers?" "I am not Varvilliers, but here I am," came in answer from across the terrace. "Wetter!" I whispered, running down the steps and over to where he stood. "What brings you here?" "I couldn't sleep. I saw your lights and I rowed across. I've been here for an hour." "You should have come in." "No.
And the block is there, though by fate's caprice it lie unshaped. The thing had been between the Countess and myself; its virtue had availed to abolish difference of years, to rout absurdity, to threaten the strongest resolution of my mind. It was between Elsa and Varvilliers. In none other had I found it for myself; in none other would Elsa find it. It was not for her in me.
"It is not your Princess; it is the dance, the wine, the night." "By God, I don't care what it is." "Well, then, she's with Varvilliers, at the end of the terrace, I imagine; for they passed by here as I lay in my hole watching." "But he would have heard my cry." "It depends upon what other sounds were in his ears. They seemed very happy together." I saw that he rallied me.
In fact we never did account very satisfactorily for Coralie. We sacrificed or rather Varvilliers and Vohrenlorf sacrificed William Adolphus without hesitation, saying truly enough that he had brought her. Victoria was extremely angry and my brother-in-law much aggrieved. But I must admit that the story met with very hesitating acceptance.
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