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Herr Klüber pretended he had not noticed either Sanin's absence nor his intervieith the officers; he was urging on the coachry at his deliberateness Ge to Sanin, she did not even look at him; from her knitted brows, from her pale and compressed lips, fro inwardly Only Emil obviously wanted to speak to Sanin, wanted to question hiive the white--a scrap of paper, a note, or a card The poor boy's heart was beating, his cheeks burned, he was ready to throw hio with him at once to crush all those accursed officers into dust and ashes! He controlled himself, however, and did no more than watch intently every movement of his noble Russian friend

The coachman had at last harnessed the horses; the whole party seated thee Elia; he was more comfortable there, and had not Kl&uu opposite to him

The whole way home Herr Klüber discoursedand he discoursed alone; no one, absolutely no one, opposed hiree with him He especially insisted on the point that they had been wrong in not following his advice when he suggested dining in a shut-up summer-house There no unpleasantness could have occurred! Then he expressed a few decided and even liberal sentiovernlected their discipline, and did not sufficiently consider the civilian eleerliche Element in der Societ&auive rise to discontent, which ht well pass into revolution, of which (here he dropped a syiven them a sorrowful exareatest respect for authority, and neverno, never! could be a revolutionist--but he could not but express hisdisapprobation at the sight of such licence! Then he ood-breeding, and the sense of dignity

During all these lucubrations, Ge before dinner had not seemed quite pleased with Herr Klüber, and had therefore held rather aloof from Sanin, and had been, as it were, embarrassed by his presence--Gemma was unmistakably ashamed of her betrothed! Towards the end of the drive she was positively wretched, and though, as before, she did not address a word to Sanin, she suddenly flung an ilance at him He, for his part, felt nant with Herr Kl&uuhted at what had happened in the course of that day, even though he had every reason to expect a challenge next