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None but the most interesting people were invited, and the party promised to be the greatest success. Two or three days before they were to go down, Amaryllis coming in late in the afternoon, found Verisschenzko's card. "Oh! John!" she cried delightedly, "that very thrilling Russian whom we met in Paris has called.
Once he had shone as a leader and chief in Stepan's life, and now after the stormy scene in the smoking-room at Ardayre, that he could greet him casually and not turn from him in anger, showed, alas! to where he had sunk in Verisschenzko's estimation a thing of nought not even worth his disapproval. The dinner to him was a painful trial. John also was far from content.
And how she adored him! She would have crawled to him now on the ground. She had not known she could feel so much. Every animal, sensual desire made her throb with rage. She would have torn the flesh from Amaryllis' face had she been there, and thrust her hatpin into her real eyes. But the spoke should be put in the wheel of Verisschenzko's marrying her! And perhaps some other revenge would come.
Denzil stretched himself he was always interested in Verisschenzko's reasonings and prepared to listen with enjoyment: "The general idea is that a man should not make love to another man's wife. Man professes this as a creed, and the law enforces it and punishes him if he is found out doing so.
Verisschenzko's Calmuck eyes narrowed. "And does this result of the fusion of snake charmers figure in the family history? I believe I have met him his name is Ferdinand, is it not, and he is, or was, in some business in Constantinople?" "That is the creature he was brought up at Ardayre as though he were the heir, and poor John turned out of things.
As he retraced his steps later on he saw Sir John Ardayre in earnest conversation with Lemon Bridges, the fashionable rising surgeon of the day. They stood in an alcove, and Verisschenzko's alert intelligence was struck by the expression on John Ardayre's face it was so sad and resigned, as a brave man's who has received death sentence.
"He is not even a pure Turk some of them are gentlemen. He is just the scum of the earth, and no blood relation to John Ardayre." "He will let them know whether he is or not some day! I hear that your bit of bread and butter is going to have a child, and as Ferdie says it can't be John's, I suppose it is yours!" Verisschenzko's face looked dangerous.
He thought of Verisschenzko's words about laws being powerless to control a man's actions, when a natural force is prompting him, unless he uses self-analysis, and so by gaining knowledge permits the spirit to conquer.
She seemed to know that it was Verisschenzko's own, which was just talking to her, telling her to be calm and brave and true. He played for a whole hour and at last softly and yet more softly, and when he finished he saw that she was quietly asleep. A smile as tender as a mother's came into his rugged face, and he stole from the room noiselessly, breathing a blessing as he passed.
Fortunately it is not in command of him all the time but let me tell you more about the forgery. You over-reached yourselves you made John ignore something which would have been his first thought, thus the fraud was exposed at once." Her jealousy blazed up, so that she forgot herself and prudence. "You mean about the child your child " The ominous gleam came into Verisschenzko's eyes.
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