'Listen, my young friend . . .'
'Monsieur Dimitri,' Emil interrupted in a plaintive voice, 'why do you address me so formally?'
Sanin laughed. 'Oh, very well. Listen, my dearest boy—(Emil gave a little skip of delight)—listen; there you understand, there, you will say, that everything shall be done exactly as is wished—(Emil compressed his lips and nodded solemnly)—and as for me . . . what are you doing to-morrow, my dear boy?'
'I? what am I doing? What would you like me to do?'
'If you can, come to me early in the morning—and we will walk about the country round Frankfort till evening.. . . Would you like to?'
Emil gave another little skip. 'I say, what in the world could be jollier? Go a walk with you—why, it's simply glorious! I 'll be sure to come!'
'And if they won 't let you?'
'They will let me!'
'Listen . . . Don't say there that I asked you to come for the whole day.'
'Why should I? But I 'll get away all the same! What does it matter?'
Emil warmly kissed Sanin, and ran away.
Sanin walked up and down the room a long
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