eodor Vladimir Larrovitch Author:William George Jordan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Cii(VCw(W!CCXCQCQfeCG tyyyyyyyyy3yyyyy3yyyy,/,pt''yjjmj yfyyjririrajrrj?fyfyfyv3 THE TRUE AND THE FALSE ABOUT Jarrovitch -RICHARDSON WRIGHT Out I ... more »am not quite sure that I understand women," remarked Andrew. "When you do, my lad," said his father, "you will know entirely too much to associate with ordinary mortals. After women, the stars." From "VwODNE." [ The scene is the drawing room in the palace of the governor general of Perm. A Louis XVI. room, with a superfluity of gilt. Tea has been served and the two women fall to talking. The one is KatherineFeodorovna, a dowager of the upper '50's, socially prominent and confidant to certain of the younger women. The other is Tatiana Verovna, the young wife of the Governor-General. His Excellency is much older than Tatiana, which, in the conversation that preceded, has been quoted by her as justification for a mild indiscretion committed one evening a week previous with a certain dashing captain of a landers regiment in barracks at Perm, gossip of which appears to have filtered through the town.] "I Really do not think it matters what Nina is saying," remarked Katherine Feodorovna. "If it were only Nina I would not worry," replied Tatiana Verovna. "Nina? Pooh! But its everyone else. Oh, I can tell. The butcher, the baker, the wine merchant, Mensikoff, Baratkin and all the rest seem to know about it." "But do you permit that to worry you, what the small trades-people think and the Mensikoffs and the Baratkins? Baratkin's wife was always a gossip anyhow." The older woman looked over at Titiana Verovna who was sitting dejectly on the edge of the couch across the room with that imperious scorn which alone is bred of hard contact with a merciless world. "Listen to me, child. I speak from fifty years of good repor...« less