And Maurice Grey, after cursing them both and making a will depriving them of everything, shut himself up in his castle, and steadily drank himself to death in less than a year.

And the brother of the beautiful Mrs.Grey, Francis Markrute, never forgave her either.

He refused to receive her or hear news of her, even after poor little Mirko was born and she married Count Sykypri.
For on the father's side, the Markrute brother and sister were of very noble lineage; even with his bar sinister the financier could not brook the disgrace of Elinka.

He had loved her so--the one soft side of his adamantine character.

Her disgrace, it seemed, had frozen all the tenderness in his nature.
Countess Shulski was silent for a few moments, while both Mimo and Mirko watched her face anxiously.