taken place, she has let know that would like to be present on forthcoming wedding. Michael has refused under the pretext of that it is supposedly pure family celebration though perfectly knew - all is invited haut monde Belgrad. Never it has seemed with the Drag in a society. If it would like to go to theatre, he bought tickets for it and her sister, but did not accompany them. To keep the relation with the Drag as fiduciary it justified aspiration that the person with its position at court should not give food for a gossip. In its behaviour has changed nothing, and nevertheless he felt something new, hostile to their relations. Sometimes he noticed, how the Drag silently sits on a chair, having turned away, hands in a lap, - as if the traveller who waits for hooter to departure of the train.
Later Michael wondered that really prevented to say to it a magic phrase. Whether there were these memoirs about violent месье Zhjure or phantoms of those who in Shabatse and Paris easily found a way to Drag bed? Or an obstacle was the prevention of the king of Milan? Even after the several years spent in the educated West, Michael remained adequately the Serb that with easy contempt to concern the woman given to the man without благословления of church. The woman can be or потаскухой, or justly pure mother of its future children, never - that and another simultaneously. Besides, any Serb appreciates man's friendship much above relations with the weaker sex. The love certificate lasts instants, friendship, on the contrary, - all life. Milan was about the Drag of bad opinion and consequently Michael should choose between them two. As the true Serb, it has chosen not the woman, and the friend.
Michael wondered, whether the Drag remembers, sitting in a royal box of National theatre, about those small, but awful humiliations which it delivered to it. Whether remind a kiss of a hand which the king welcomes it in the face of the whole world, and elegant driving on the four across Belgrad Michael's eternal refusals to take it with itself on after-dinner walks on Teraziju?
At thought that it divides bed with Alexander, in a shower at it the anger now directed against this young madman, the man representing from again has flashed. It has for certain turned to the Drag a head promises which never can execute. Sooner or later the king should marry. What then will be with the Drag?
If somebody that ill-fated winter evening has told to Michael that will not take place also three years as Alexander will ennoble the Drag before position of the lawful spouse and the queen of Serbia, it would spit to it in the person. Or
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