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For her. "We are coming just now from the shops, where we met the
baron." "What are your plans for the evening?" inquired Darvid again.
"We shall remain at home,'" answered Malvina. "How is that?--but the
party at Prince and Princess Zeno's!" "We had no intention--" said
Malvina, in an attempt at self-defence; but she saw the look of her
husband, and the voice broke in her throat. "You and your daughter will
go to that party," said he, with a low whisper, which hissed from his
lips. And immediately he added aloud, with a smile: "Ladies, I advise
you to be at that party." Malvina became almost as white as the fur
which encircled her neck, and at that moment Irene asked: "Will you be
there, father?" "I will run in for a while. As usual, I have no time."
"What a pity," said Baron Emil, "that I cannot offer you a part of mine
as a gift. In this regard I am a regular Dives." "And I a beggar! For
this reason I must take farewell of you." He raised his hat and had
begun to descend when he heard Irene's voice behind him, calling: "My
father!" She told her mother and the baron that she wished to exchange a
few words with her father, and ran down the steps. The splendid entrance
was empty and brightly lighted with lamps; but the liveried Swiss, at
sight of the master of the house, stood with his hand on the latch of
the glass door. At the foot of the stairs a tall young lady, in a black
cloak lined with fur, very formal and very pale, began to speak French:
"Pardon me, that in a place so unfitting, I must tell you that the ball,
of which you hav