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Zaluski greeted the curate pleasantly, and his dark eyes lighted up with a gleam of amusement. "Oh, we are great friends," he said laughingly. "Only, you know, I sometimes shock him a little just a very little." "That is very unkind of you, I am sure," said Mrs. Courtenay, smiling. "No, not at all," said Zaluski, with the audacity of a privileged being.
The two ladies seemed to vie with each other in making pretty speeches, and Zaluski, who loved music and loved giving pleasure, looked really pleased. I am sure it did not enter his head that his two companions were not sincere, or that they did not wish him well.
I had now grown to such enormous dimensions that any one who had known me in my infancy would scarcely have recognised me, while naturally the more I grew the more powerful I became, and the more capable both of impressing the minds which received me and of injuring Zaluski. Poor Zaluski, who was so foolishly, thoughtlessly happy! He little dreamed of the fate that awaited him!
A few cold words were exchanged, when they again embraced and remounted to review the troops. But Sobieski, frank, cordial, impulsive, was so disgusted with this reception, so different from what he had a right to expect, that he excused himself, and rode to his tent, leaving his chancellor Zaluski to accompany the emperor on the review.
Well, would you believe it, this miserable fortune-hunter is actually either engaged to her or on the eve of being engaged! Poor Mrs. Milton-Cleave is so unhappy about it, for she knows, on the best authority, that Mr. Zaluski is unfit to enter a respectable house." "Perhaps he is really some escaped criminal?" suggested Mr. Shrewsbury, tentatively. Mrs. Selldon hesitated.
"On no account," said the curate, warmly. "Well, you know Mr. Zaluski, and how the Morleys have taken him up?" "Every one has taken him up," said the curate, with the least little touch of resentment in his tone. "I knew that the Morleys were his special friends; I imagine that he admires Miss Morley." "Yes, every one thinks they are either engaged or on the brink of it. And oh, Mr.
"You see, I am still under age, and she and Uncle Henry my guardian must consent before we are actually betrothed." "I will see them at once," said Zaluski, eagerly. "You could see my mother," she replied. "But Uncle Henry is still in Sweden and will not be in town for another week." "Must we really wait so long!" sighed Sigismund impatiently. She laughed at him gently. "A whole week!
The two became as devoted to each other as Silvio Pellico and Count Oroboni; but it soon became evident to Valerian Vasilowitch that, unless Zaluski was released, he would soon succumb to the terrible restrictions of prison life. "Keep up your heart, my friend," he used to say. "I have borne it three years, and am still alive to tell the tale."
The girl was looking more beautiful than ever, and there was a tell-tale colour in her cheeks and an unusual light in her soft grey eyes. As for Zaluski, he was so evidently in love, and had the audacity to look so supremely happy, that Mrs. Milton-Cleave was more than ever impressed with the gravity of the situation.
Yet on the dull silence breaking With a lightning flash, a word, Bearing endless desolation On its blighting wings, I heard; Earth can forge no keener weapon, Dealing surer death and pain, And the cruel echo answered Through long years again. Curiously enough, I must actually have started for Russia on the same day that Sigismund Zaluski was summoned by his uncle at St.
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