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A Cigarette-Maker’s Romance

CHAPTER XII
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But not as coachman, Dumnoff.

Not as coachman, I think.

Good-bye, Anna Nicolaevna," he said, turning to the insignificant girl, who was at last too much awed to giggle.
Then he came to Vjera's place.

The girl was leaning forward, hiding her face in her hands, and resting her small, pointed elbows on the table.
"Vjera, dear," he said, bending down to her, "will you come with me, now ?" She looked up, suddenly, and her face was very white and drawn, and wet with tears.
"Oh no, no!" she said in a low voice.

"How can I ever be worthy of you, since it is really true ?" But the Count put his arm round the poor little shell-maker's waist, and made her stand beside him in the midst of them all.
"Gentlemen," he said, in his calmly dignified manner, "let me present to you the Countess Skariatine.


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