But Amalia was none the less married in due time to an elderly factory-owner, a German, and an old comrade of the general's.

Andrey Antonovitch did not shed many tears, but made a paper theatre.

The curtain drew up, the actors came in, and gesticulated with their arms.

There were spectators in the boxes, the orchestra moved their bows across their fiddles by machinery, the conductor waved his baton, and in the stalls officers and dandies clapped their hands.

It was all made of cardboard, it was all thought out and executed by Lembke himself.