By-and-bye! By-and-bye!" She made an evident effort to appear gay, like the pretty women who were there, and who, despite their prettiness, seemed to Andras perfectly insignificant; but she did not succeed in driving away the cloud of sadness which overshadowed her exquisite, dark face.

And in the ears of the Prince rang again the bitter accents of that voice saying in a harsh, almost revolted tone: "Yes, a Russian! My father was a Russian!".