Claude de Chauxville has hated me all his life; for very good reasons, no doubt.

You are now included in his antipathy because you married madame." "I dare say," replied Paul carelessly.

"But I am not afraid of Claude de Chauxville, or any other man." "I am," said Steinmetz.

"He is up to some mischief.

I was calling on the Countess Lanovitch in Petersburg when in walked Claude de Chauxville.