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Chapter 7

           

           Willitbebelievedthat,afterAglaya’salarmingwords,anineradicableconvictionhadtakenpossessionofhismindthat,howeverhemighttrytoavoidthisvasenextday,hemustcertainlybreakit?Butsoitwas.

           Duringtheeveningotherimpressionsbegantoawakeninhismind,aswehaveseen,andheforgothispresentiment.ButwhenPavlicheffwasmentionedandthegeneralintroducedhimtoIvanPetrovitch,hehadchangedhisplace,andwentovernearertothetable;when,itsohappened,hetookthechairnearesttothebeautifulvase,whichstoodonapedestalbehindhim,justaboutonalevelwithhiselbow.

           Ashespokehislastwordshehadrisensuddenlyfromhisseatwithawaveofhisarm,andtherewasageneralcryofhorror.

           Thehugevaseswayedbackwardsandforwards;itseemedtobeuncertainwhetherornototoppleoverontotheheadofoneoftheoldmen,buteventuallydeterminedtogotheotherway,andcamecrashingovertowardstheGermanpoet,whodartedoutofthewayinterror.

           Thecrash,thecry,thesightofthefragmentsofvaluablechinacoveringthecarpet,thealarmofthecompanywhatallthismeanttothepoorprinceitwouldbedifficulttoconveytothemindofthereader,orforhimtoimagine.

           Butoneverycuriousfactwasthatalltheshameandvexationandmortificationwhichhefeltovertheaccidentwerelesspowerfulthanthedeepimpressionofthealmostsupernaturaltruthofhispremonition.

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