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A struggle ensued between them, Fru Thyregod trying to force the personal note, and Julian opposing himself to its intrusion. He liked her too much to respond to her blatant advances. He wondered, with a brotherly interest, whether Eve were less crude in her methods.
The thought of Eve sent him instantly in her pursuit, leaving Fru Thyregod very much astonished and annoyed in the ball-room. He found Eve with a man he did not know sitting in her father's business-room. She was lying back in a chair, listless and absent-minded, while her companion argued with vehemence and exasperation. She exclaimed,--
'Julian again! another surprise appearance! Have you been wearing a cap of invisibility?'
Seeing that her companion remained silent in uncertainty, she murmured an introduction,--
'Do you know my cousin Julian? Prince Ardalion Miloradovitch.'
The Russian bowed with a bad grace, seeing that he must yield his place to Julian. When he had gone, unwillingly tactful and full of resentment, she twitted her cousin,--
'Implacable as always, when you want your own way! I notice you have neither outgrown your tyrannical selfishness nor left it behind in England.'
'I have never seen that man before; who is he?'
'A Russian. Not unattractive. I am engaged to him,' she replied negligently.
'You are going to marry him?'
She shrugged.
'Perhaps, ultimately. More probably not.'
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