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Frau Lenore uttered a cry of delight

'Only I really can't say what result will coo back fro voice; 'you have already consented! The result is certain to be excellent Any way, I can do nothing more! She won't listen to me!'

'Has she so positively stated her disinclination to marry Herr Klüber?' Sanin inquired after a short silence

'As if she'd cut the knot with a knife! She's her father all over, Giovanni Battista! Wilful girl!'

'Wilful? Is she!'Sanin said slowly 'Yesyesbut she's an angel too She willsoon? Oh, my dear Russian friend!' Frau Lenore rose impulsively from her chair, and as i opposite her 'Accept a ht Signora Roselli a glass of water, gave her his word of honour that he would come directly, escorted her down the stairs to the street, and when he was back in his own room, positively threw up his arms and opened his eyes wide in his a round in a whirl! And it's whirling so that I'iddy' He did not atte on in himself: it was all uproar and confusion, and that was all he knew! What a day it had been! His lips murmured unconsciously: 'Wilfulher ot to advise herher! And advise her what?'

Sanin, really, was giddy, and above all this whirl of shifting sensations and ihts, there floated continually the ie so ineffaceably i with electricity, in that dark , in the light of the swar stars!