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Stadium Santiago also carries on against adversity But he is alone in a boat far out at sea when he battles the gigantic marlin No one witnesses his extraordinary performance Life is like that Every day people in every country perform magnificently in ordinary mundane tasks even though no one is there to cheer them on Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer of novels and short stories Before turning to fiction he worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star and served as a First World War ambulance driver before enlisting with the Italian infantry and suffering a wound After the war he worked for the Toronto Star and lived for a time in Paris and Key West Fla During the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War he served as a newspaper correspondent then lived in Cuba until and Idaho until the year of his by suicide Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer of novels and short stories Before turning to fiction he worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star and served as a First World War ambulance driver before enlisting with the Italian infantry and suffering a wound After the war he worked for the Toronto Star and lived for a time in Paris and Key West Fla During the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War he served as a newspaper correspondent then lived in Cuba until and Idaho until the year of his by suicide In Paris sixty years before when her beauty dazzled society she lost an enormous sum at court to the Duke of Orleans in a game of faro After returning to her residence she directed her husband to pay the debt The normally compliant man refused to do so pointing out that she had spent francs in just six months In desperation she wrote a letter to old Count St Germain famous for the stories told about himthat he claimed to have discovered the elixir of life and to have found a way to turn base metals into gold In his memoirs Casanova said he was a spy Whatever was true or untrue about him he was always in demand at social gatherings and the countess had fond memories of him the most important of which was that he had | ||
The count immediately went to her and told her a secret card strategy that would enable her to back her That night at Versailles at the jeu de la reine Queen MarieAntoinettes own gaming table she again played against the Duke of Orleans after telling him a little tale about why she had not yet paid him his Upon employing the secret strategy she immediately recouped her losses Afterward the countess guarded the card secret from others She even refused to reveal it to her four sons including Tomskys father However after taking pity on an acquaintance named Chaplitzky who had lost rubles she told him the secret designating three cards he should bet on She also made him promise that after the game he would never play cards again | ||
When he used the secret he immediately Before the game ended he had covered his lossesand a little extra Oddly though Chaplitzky died in poverty In her home Countess Fedotovna primps before a mirror while three maids attend her Lizaveta Ivanovna her ward sits by a dow embroidering Her grandson Tomsky enters and asks permission to introduce a friend to her at a Friday ball After she grants it she and Paul discuss a woman he admiresa Miss Yeletsky The countess criticizes her then asks about the young ladys grandmother Princess Daria Petrovna When Paul reminds the countess that the princess has been seven years Lizaveta furtively signals Paul with a cautionary gesture He well knows its meaning Never should anyone inform the countess of the of one of her contemporaries After the old woman goes behind a screen with her maids to finish dressing Lizaveta inquires about the friend Paul plans to introduce He tells her that the man is a soldier named Narumov Is he in the engineers |
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