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Nonsense! nonsense! to-morroould all vanish and leave no trace But would she let hio to-morrow?

Yes All these question he put to hi on to three o'clock, and he put on a black frockcoat and after a turn in the park, went in to the Polozovs!

He found in their drawing-rooht-haired German, with the profile of a horse, and his hair parted down the back of his head (at that time a new fashion), andoh, wonder! whom besides? Von D&ouht a few days before! He had not the slightest expectation of reeted him, however

'Are you acquainted?' asked Maria Nikolaevna who had not failed to notice Sanin's embarrassment

'YesI have already had the honour,' said D&ou a little aside, in an undertone he added to Maria Nikolaevna, with a smile, 'The very manyour compatriotthe Russian '

'Impossible!' she exclaier at hi secretary, as, to judge by every syaped every time he looked at her Dönhof promptly took leave with amiable docility, like a friend of the family who understands at half a hat is expected of hins of restiveness, but Maria Nikolaevna turned hi to your sovereign mistress,' she said to him (there was at that time in Wiesbaden a certain princess di Monaco, who looked surprisingly like a cocotte of the poorer sort); 'what do you want to stay with a plebeian like me for?'

'Really, dear madam,' protested the luckless secretary,' all the princesses in the world'

But Maria Nikolaevna was re and all

Maria Nikolaevna was dressed that day very randlacé silk dress, with sleeves à la Fontange, and a big diamond in each ear Her eyes sparkled as h spirits

Sheto hio in a few days, of how sick she was of Germans, how stupid they hen they tried to be clever, and how inappropriately clever sometimes when they were stupid; and suddenly, point-blank, as they say--à brûle pourpoint--asked hiht a duel with the very officer who had been there just now, only a few days ago, on account of a lady?