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She turned back and went out without a word. And we followed. She did not wish to go to the hospital, and if she had not remained in the hospital here in a strange country, especially as she had no money, what could she have done?
Ivanoff became enraged with me. “What now,” he said, “we must now infallibly suffer through you, blockhead?”
He ordered the horses to be put to the post-chaise immediately, and did not allow us to pass the night in that quarter, so we were obliged to drive out during the night.
We approached her. “Be so kind, Miss, as to come,” we said, “the horses are waiting.”
She was resting on a sofa with the intention of warming herself. She jumped at once to her feet, stood before us, drew herself up, looked straight at us, and I could tell you it was for me dreadful to look at her. “Vile wretches!” she cried, and added something more, which
