Cursed forever be the day when I assumed your name, and when I conceived the foolish notion of becoming your second self! I made myself a Pole: did Poland ever have the least idea of government?
You of all men were the most incapable of making your way; I aped a poor model indeed.

Abel Larinski, I break off all connection with you; I wind up the affairs of our firm, I put the key under the door, or drop it down the well.

O my great Pole! I return to you your title, your name, and with your name all that you gave me--your pride, your pretensions, your dangerous delicacy, your attitudes, your sentimental grimaces, and your waving plume." It was thus that Samuel Brohl took a decisive farewell of Count Abel Larinski, who might henceforth rest quietly in his grave; there was no further danger of a dead man being compromised by a living one.

What name did Samuel Brohl mean now to assume?
Out of spite to his destiny, he chose for the time the humblest of all; he decided to call himself Kicks, which was his mother's name.
His melancholy would have known no bounds, had he suspected that Camille Langis was still in the world.

Camille Langis for two weeks lay between life and death, but the ball had finally been successfully extracted.
Mme.