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Wysłany: Sob 19:16, 12 Mar 2011 Temat postu: I told him all thatBarinia |
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IX THE TSAR
THE SECRET OF THE NIGHT
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GAYETY AND DYNAMITE
BARINIAthe young stranger has arrived.
Where is he?
Ohhe is waiting at the lodge.
I told you to show him to Natacha's sitting-room. Didn't you understand meErmolai?
PardonBariniabut the young strangerwhen I asked to search himas you directedflatly refused to let
me.
Did you explain to him that everybody is searched before being allowed to enterthat it is the orderand that
even my mother herself has submitted to it?
I told him all thatBarinia; and I told him about madame your mother.
What did he say to that?
That he was not madame your mother. He acted angry.
Welllet him come in without being searched.
The Chief of Police won't like it.
Do as I say.
Ermolai bowed and returned to the garden. The "barinia" left the verandawhere she had come for this
conversation with the old servant of General Trebassofher husbandand returned to the dining-room in the
datcha des Ileswhere the gay Councilor Ivan Petrovitch was regaling his amused associates with his latest
exploit at Cubat's resort. They were a noisy companyand certainly the quietest among them was not the
generalwho nursed on a sofa the leg which still held him captive after the recent attackthat to h yilai:
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