It is regrettable to add that Wanda, Madame Godaloff, agreed to this arrangement, and, indeed, having attained woman's goal, troubled herself not once about her parent who had schemed and plotted tirelessly for this end.

The countess had brought her deer to a pretty market; but, unhappily, she gained little by the bargain compared with what she had dreamed.
She had a brother-in-law who had acted very differently from her husband.

Instead of playing the patriot--and the fool--he had submitted to the tyrant and won a lucrative post at St.Petersburg.He was afraid to injure himself by giving countenance to his brother's relict, who was always seeking an audience of the Emperor.

It was strongly suspected that she intended, since Wanda was out of the lists, to throw the next daughter, Iza, at the head of a Grand-duke with whom the two girls had played when all three were children at Warsaw.
The countess seemed to have educated the girl, as soon as her elder was out of the way, for a royal match.

Like most Poles, Iza spoke several languages fluently, sang and played the harp and piano.