Chapter 3

           

           In1811therewaslivinginMoscowaFrenchdoctor—Métivier—whohadrapidlybecomethefashion.Hewasenormouslytall,handsome,amiableasFrenchmenare,andwas,asallMoscowsaid,anextraordinarilycleverdoctor.Hewasreceivedinthebesthousesnotmerelyasadoctor,butasanequal.

           PrinceNicholashadalwaysridiculedmedicine,butlatterlyonMademoiselleBourienne’sadvicehadallowedthisdoctortovisithimandhadgrownaccustomedtohim.Métiviercametoseetheprinceabouttwiceaweek.

           OnDecember6—St.Nicholas’Dayandtheprince’snameday—allMoscowcametotheprince’sfrontdoorbuthegaveorderstoadmitnooneandtoinvitetodinneronlyasmallnumber,alistofwhomhegavetoPrincessMary.

           Métivier,whocameinthemorningwithhisfelicitations,considereditproperinhisqualityofdoctordeforcerlaconsigne,*ashetoldPrincessMary,andwentintoseetheprince.Ithappenedthatonthatmorningofhisnamedaytheprincewasinoneofhisworstmoods.Hehadbeengoingaboutthehouseallthemorningfindingfaultwitheveryoneandpretendingnottounderstandwhatwassaidtohimandnottobeunderstoodhimself.PrincessMarywellknewthismoodofquietabsorbedquerulousness,whichgenerallyculminatedinaburstofrage,andshewentaboutallthatmorningasthoughfacingacockedandloadedgunandawaitedtheinevitableexplosion.Untilthedoctor’sarrivalthemorninghadpassedoffsafely.Afteradmittingthedoctor,PrincessMarysatdownwithabookinthedrawingroomnearthedoorthroughwhichshecouldhearallthatpassedinthestudy.

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