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De Windt had never thought Ivan effeminate a milk-sop; but, had he been made to believe the truth, it is probable that one or the other of these epithets would then have expressed his opinion of his friend. The first charge made by Brodsky against his Lieutenant was that of overstaying his leave already for the length of seven days, and still no prospect of return.
She got up now, like a lamb about to be led to the slaughter, except that she smiled bravely, which the lamb would not be able to bring itself to do. "Come, Betty," she said to me, "it will amuse you." "Yes, do come, Lady Betty," repeated Mrs. Van der Windt; whereupon I obeyed, little knowing what I was laying up for myself. Our deck is amidships.
Van der Windt and several other members of the Ball committee, for trying to make a stand against her, she was perfectly ruthless about the names she would scratch off the lists her secretary was continually making out and revising for her.
For a moment Freule Menela van der Windt did not answer, and I hoped that her thoughts had hopped to some other branch of the subject; but presently she broke out, as if impelled by impulse to utter her thought to a congenial soul. "Isn't it strange how sometimes one seems to know a person one has only just met, better than another, with whom one has been intimate for years?"
Van der Windt talking, I should have supposed that in America a man like Mr. Brett, for instance, could be received anywhere. As it is, I suppose no, nobody could despise him. For myself, I'm proud to know such a brave man. But but of course we're not likely to meet him again, are we?" "In Society?" laughed Sally. "Poor fellow, it doesn't look much like it now, does it?
But when de Windt, agog with curiosity, re-entered his own quarters, his comrade was sleeping so peacefully that he could not find it in his heart to disturb Ivan till the reveille roused the camp. While Ivan dressed, he and de Windt held a hurried conversation.
Vladimir de Windt, marvelling at the recklessness of the affair, came once to the twain, thinking to expostulate with Ivan. But what he saw in the two faces turned blankly upon him, filled him with such sudden perception that he stumbled through an excuse, and went off to seek some spot where he could think; saying to himself, as he went: "Good God!
But we compared notes; and nobody saw him that day after five-thirty; and Féodor, his orderly, was on guard at the tent door all evening, the officer of the watch says. By Heavens, he'll have her " "But you haven't told me whom they say she is, Vladimir. Tell me!" De Windt hesitated, and then, lifting his eyes to Ivan's, said, in a grave voice: "Why should you know, old chap?"
Ivan longed but did not dare to inquire about her. So, at last, he walked back to his apartment, arm in arm with de Windt, who had been no less surprised than pleased at discovering him in the house of so established a leader as Madame Dravikine. De Windt, himself a celebrated dandy, began, as they left the Serghievskaia. "You are an enigma a deceiver, Ivan Mikhailovitch!
De Windt, watching him covertly, said to himself that by that time, should this madness continue, Ivan would be fit only for an asylum. Meantime, the season advanced. The great thaw came; and there would be no more snow for months. Russia was a sea of mud. All young things were harkening to the call of the spring: and youthful blood, like sap, flowed fast.
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