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It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine

Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries-and that

men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine Saviour and His most

Holy Mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care!

MARY

"Ah, you are sending off a letter, Princess? I have already

dispatched mine. I have written to my poor mother," said the

smiling Mademoiselle Bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow

tones and with guttural r's. She brought into Princess Mary's

strenuous, mournful, and gloomy world a quite different

atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and self-satisfied.

"Princess, I must warn you," she added, lowering her voice and

evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with

exaggerated grasseyement, "the prince has been scolding Michael

Ivanovich. He is in a very bad humor, very morose. Be prepared."