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Yes, Sanin was a little conscience-sh, on the other hand, as there for hi officer's insolence unrebuked? could he have behaved like Herr Klüber? He had stood up for Gemma, he had cha in his heart, and he was conscience--smitten, and even ashalory! He was suddenly possessed by a feeling of pride A victorious general, returning from the field of battle he has won, could not have looked about hi the duel filled him with enthusiasm He called him a hero, and would not listen to his exhortations and even his entreaties He compared him to a monument of marble or of bronze, with the statue of the commander in Don Juan! For himself he admitted he had been conscious of some perturbation of mind, 'but, of course, I a nature, while you are the son of the snows and the granite rocks'

Sanin was positively at a loss how to quiet the jubilant artist

Almost at the same place in the road where two hours before they had coain jumped out fro his cap and leaping into the air, he rushed straight at the carriage, al for the horses to stop, cla to Sanin

'You are alive, you are not wounded!' he kept repeating 'Forgive o back to FrankfortI could not! I waited for you hereTell me hoas it? Youkilled him?'

Sanin with soreat verbosity, with evident pleasure, Pantaleone communicated to him all the details of the duel, and, of course, did not oain to the monument of bronze and the statue of the co with his feet wide apart to preserve his equilibriu conteave an ocular representation of the commander--Sanin! E the narrative with an excla his heroic friend

The carriage wheels rumbled over the paved roads of Frankfort, and stopped at last before the hotel where Sanin was living