Category: Romance
I. LISE BARINEFF. 5 II. A WINTER AT ST. PETERSBURG. 11 III. AT PAMPELN. 19 IV. GENERAL PODOI. 39 V. PRINCESS AND MODEL. 52 VI. PARIS AND ST. PETERSBURG. 67 VII. AT THE OPERA COMIQUE. 79 VIII. THE REVENGE OF AN HONORABLE MAN. 85 IX. IN FLAGRANTE DELICTO. 92 X. THE INQUIRY. 104...
Toward the end of May, after a most brilliant winter season, all the society of St. Petersburg made ready for its departure. The sledges were put away in the coach-houses, the t...
7. CHAPTER V.Of course the Princess Olsdorf was not unknown to Paul Meyrin's relatives. On his return from Russia, being questioned by his family on the incidents of his journey, the painter...
26. CHAPTER XI.When she received at Pampeln the telegram which Prince Olsdorf had sent to her from Brindisi to ask her to go at once to Paris with Alexander and Tekla, Vera Soublaieff had stif...
16. CHAPTER I.Vera's journey back to Pampeln was in no respect, it may well be imagined, like the journey she had made to France. Three months ago, when her first grief at leaving her father...
21. CHAPTER VI.On returning next day from Amiens, whither he had really been, and not finding his wife in the Rue d'Assas, but merely this brief note, or rather line: "Paul, my son is dying; I...
6. CHAPTER IV.If I were a writer of the naturalistic school--that is, if I were without care for modesty or the choice of words--I should need here to summon physiology to my aid to paint in...
8. CHAPTER VI.The first care of the princess was to leave the Baden Hotel where she dreaded not being free to live according to her fantasy. She had found very comfortable furnished rooms in...
25. CHAPTER X.On arriving at Brindisi, twenty days after sailing from Bombay, Pierre Olsdorf sent a telegram to Vera Soublaieff, asking her to leave Pampeln for Paris at once. A few hours lat...
11. CHAPTER IX.During the three days that she was traveling on the railway in a compartment near that of Prince Olsdorf, the pretty Vera Soublaieff had been in one long dream. She was going to...
19. CHAPTER IV.In view of the customary indiscretion of the world into which Paul had made his re-entry some months before, under conditions that would have been so hard to explain, the wonder...
18. CHAPTER III.The relations now established between her sister-in-law and herself seemed at first to fill the cup of Lise's happiness, for since her marriage she had suffered much from the es...
17. CHAPTER II.While Prince Olsdorf had gone from the sight of all who loved him, and Vera Soublaieff, in despair, but obedient, was devoting herself at Pampeln to the two poor little forsaken...
12. CHAPTER X.While following with absolute obedience the instructions of her husband, the Princess Olsdorf still felt so deeply humiliated by the vileness of the part she had to play that no...
15. CHAPTER XIII.The days that followed the carrying off of her daughter by Pierre Olsdorf were a terrible trial to Lise Barineff. Her heart had bled, as her mother reminded her, that the divorc...
14. CHAPTER XII.Money being in Russia, as elsewhere, a powerful aid, and Pierre Olsdorf not sparing it, matters moved forward with great speed. In less than a month the Holy Synod had closed it...
20. CHAPTER V.Returning home in an indescribable state of sorrow and abasement, wounded in her pride as much as in her love, blushing at not having withstood with greater dignity the blow tha...
4. CHAPTER II.Pierre Olsdorf was perhaps, of all the candidates for her hand, the only one that the beautiful Lise Barineff had remarked, not that she found him in any way better than the oth...
22. CHAPTER VII.The son of a Frenchman in business in New York, where he represented the house of Percier, of Paris, in which he was a partner, Raymond Daubrel was sent to France by his father...
10. CHAPTER VIII.Lise Olsdorf was calm in appearance, so that her husband could not read in her face the terror which the unlooked-for arrival of her legal judge had caused her. Her paleness cou...
24. CHAPTER IX.The particulars that Mme. Daubrel had got from Vera Soublaieff as well as from the Russian Embassy about Prince Olsdorf were correct, or as nearly so as is possible in the case...
23. CHAPTER VIII.From the early days of the autumn, Mme. Meyrin's condition became so quickly worse that the doctors summoned to a consultation pronounced her in danger. They had to deal with a...
3. CHAPTER I.When, in 1860, with the permission of the czar, Prince Pierre Olsdorf married Mlle. Lise Barineff, the Russian aristocracy was rather scandalized by the _mesalliance_. Everybody...
9. CHAPTER VII.Two days later Pierre Olsdorf arrived in Paris, at a quarter past seven in the evening, by the Cologne express. He had traveled without a break. By eight o'clock he was at the G...
13. CHAPTER XI.Faithful to the advice of his mistress, Paul had been careful to say nothing of his brother and sister-in-law of the serious events of which he was the hero. Neither Frantz Meyr...
1. PART I.I. LISE BARINEFF. 5 II. A WINTER AT ST. PETERSBURG. 11 III. AT PAMPELN. 19 IV. GENERAL PODOI. 39 V. PRINCESS AND MODEL. 52 VI. PARIS AND ST. PETERSBURG. 67 VII. AT THE OPERA COM...
2. PART II.I. VERA SOUBLAIEFF. 136 II. THE STUDIO IN THE RUE D'ASSAS. 149 III. MOTHERHOOD. 160 IV. SARAH'S REVENGE. 170 V. DIVORCE--SEPARATION. 182 VI. LISE AND VERA. 190 VII. MADAME DAUBR...