. Russian portraits . re was most ill-timed. To-morrowis the eve of the Anniversary of the are going to be great celebrations. A bigmeeting will be held at the Opera House, at whichLenin and Trotsky are going to speak. It is onlyon very rare occasions that Lenin appears inpublic, and it would be interesting to hear meeting is called for 4 oclock, but it will bethree or four hours late, and my train leavesat 8. If only Lomonosoff would delay histrain I could attend. The next day, on the 7th,there will be a ball, and on the 8th a banquet atour house for the Foreign Offic
. Russian portraits . re was most ill-timed. To-morrowis the eve of the Anniversary of the are going to be great celebrations. A bigmeeting will be held at the Opera House, at whichLenin and Trotsky are going to speak. It is onlyon very rare occasions that Lenin appears inpublic, and it would be interesting to hear meeting is called for 4 oclock, but it will bethree or four hours late, and my train leavesat 8. If only Lomonosoff would delay histrain I could attend. The next day, on the 7th,there will be a ball, and on the 8th a banquet atour house for the Foreign Office. Moreover,the Entente papers promise a coup detat for the7th and Litvinoff suggested that I should waitand see the show. But I know by experiencethat I should only wait in vain. When I wasalone with Kameneff he said to me : Well, didI keep my promises ? I told him that everythinghad been fulfilled, and had exceeded even myexpectations. I told him I was overwhelmed bythe kindness I had received considering I am an184. THE SUKHAREFSKI MARKET. p. 184. RUSSIAN PORTRAITS enemy Englishwoman. He would not listen toany words of appreciation, he smiled in his genial,kindly way : Of course we were glad to receiveyou, and to have you among us, une Jemme artiste,what did it matter to us, your nationality, oryour relations. There is only one thing, que nousne pouvons pas supporter, and for the first timein all the months I have known him, a hard lookpassed over his face, and he set his teeth : Theonly thing we cannot stand cest Iespionage,and the way he said it gave me a shiver downmy spine. It was only a passing shadow, and thenext moment he was telling me that he reallyregarded me as a woman of courage for comingjust on his word, adding that when he saw me onthe departure platform with two small hand-bags, I knew in that moment that you were notany ordinary woman ! We looked back onour London days and laughingly discussed thefirst sitting when he invited me to come to told him
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