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I can't think why you didn't catch sight of her. She just looked in as she passed, I suppose." "No doubt," he said. But the gravity and uneasiness of his face deepened. Just then one of the waiters paused beside Mrs Jefferson's chair. She turned eagerly to him. "Watson," she said, "just oblige me by going to the drawing-room and finding out if Madame Zairoff is there.
"Oh, my husband, if I may," cried Mrs Jefferson, eagerly, "and Diogenes he's so solid and sensible. His imagination never plays tricks with him." "Very well," said Colonel Estcourt, "bring them also." The Princess Zairoff was seated in her boudoir reading, as the party filed in, headed by Colonel Estcourt.
"Oh, Madame Zairoff," she cried, "I'd give up everything in the world to have your wonderful gifts." "Even Worth's gowns?" said the princess, smiling. "What about the pleasant vanities we talked so much about?" "Oh, bother the vanities. I've found out life can be much more interesting than when it's merely frivolous," said the American, heartily.
A person would have to be very sure that he was free to cut himself adrift from his fellows before he would even be permitted to do it." "Permitted!" echoed Mrs Jefferson, rather vaguely. "But by whom?" "The teachers of occult science," answered the Princess Zairoff. "But who are they?" exclaimed the little American. "That I cannot tell you," she answered, gravely.
"Do you not think," he said, "that the fact of being quiet and unknown would just be the one fact she would appreciate? I hope I am not claiming too much from your courtesy when I say that the privilege of her society can only be obtained by a due regard to her wishes in that respect. She wishes only to be known as Madame Zairoff, here."
You see I'm reversing the usual order this morning. Three, two, one, instead of one, two, three. I'll sit just here by the door, so that we can still talk if you wish. I look like a boiled lobster, I'm sure." Princess Zairoff said nothing. But when the American had withdrawn, she threw herself down on a couch near the wall.
There was suppressed but general excitement throughout the hotel all the next day. Someone had caught sight of the Princess Zairoff, who had driven out after luncheon in a low open carriage with three horses harnessed abreast in Russian fashion, that went like the wind.
It was the usual homage paid to Princess Zairoff, for she possessed that rare and delicate mixture of indifference, languor, and disdain that is in itself a distinction, and makes ordinary womanhood and beauty suddenly feel coarse and commonplace.
"I will not pretend," he said, "to misunderstand you. I have met an old friend, and I hope soon to have the pleasure of introducing her to you all. Not with any mystery about her, as our American friend seems determined to suppose, but simply as the Princess Zairoff of whom you may have heard before this." There was a buzz a stir a confused murmur. "Heard of her I should think so.
"No," and the intruder advanced with sudden boldness. "I have come to ask if you are still of the same mind still intent on destroying your friends." His laugh rang out mockingly. "Fine friends truly for a Princess Zairoff. I gave you till to-night come, which is to be sacrificed your womanly scruples, or the five hundred lives you have fooled into security?"
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