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Updated: May 28, 2025
I remember the same day at dinner, my mother inquired of the butler who were our new neighbours, and hearing the name of the Princess Zasyekin, first observed with some respect, 'Ah! a princess! ... and then added, 'A poor one, I suppose?
I was not present at their interview, but at table my mother told my father that this Prince Zasyekin struck her as a femme tres vulgaire, that she had quite worn her out begging her to interest Prince Sergei in their behalf, that she seemed to have no end of lawsuits and affairs on hand de vilaines affaires d'argent and must be a very troublesome and litigious person.
Certainly the Princess Zasyekin could not be a rich woman; the lodge she had taken was so dilapidated and small and low-pitched that people, even moderately well-off in the world, would hardly have consented to occupy it. At the time, however, all this went in at one ear and out at the other. The princely title had very little effect on me; I had just been reading Schiller's Robbers.
'I have the honour of addressing the Princess Zasyekin? 'I am the Princess Zasyekin; and you are the son of Mr. 'Yes. I have come to you with a message from my mother. 'Sit down, please. Vonifaty, where are my keys, have you seen them? I communicated to Madame Zasyekin my mother's reply to her note.
He was carrying a plate containing the spine of a herring that had been gnawed at; and shutting the door that led into the room with his foot, he jerked out, 'What do you want? 'Is the Princess Zasyekin at home? I inquired. 'Vonifaty! a jarring female voice screamed from within.
'You know, he told me among other things, 'Madame Dolsky's here. 'What Madame Dolsky? 'Can you have forgotten her? the young Princess Zasyekin whom we were all in love with, and you too. Do you remember at the country-house near Neskutchny gardens? 'She married a Dolsky? 'Yes. 'And is she here, in the theatre? 'No: but she's in Petersburg. She came here a few days ago. She's going abroad.
Upon this my father informed my mother that he remembered now who this lady was; that he had in his youth known the deceased Prince Zasyekin, a very well-bred, but frivolous and absurd person; that he had been nicknamed in society 'le Parisien, from having lived a long while in Paris; that he had been very rich, but had gambled away all his property; and for some unknown reason, probably for money, though indeed he might have chosen better, if so, my father added with a cold smile, he had married the daughter of an agent, and after his marriage had entered upon speculations and ruined himself utterly.
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