Word: rasonski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Redheaded, unscrupulous Prince Andreas Rasonski was so ugly that even peasant girls could not abide him except in the dark. His political ambitions he kept hidden for much the same reason. His model was Napoleon; his goal, to trade Polish military support for Polish independence, with himself as king. To this end he had spent ten years ingratiating himself with a powerful Polish Count, whose beautiful only daughter Dzjunka he schemed to marry in order to get working capital. It was a long shot. Dzjunka made no secret of the fact that he gave her the creeps. And Polish noblemen...
When the uneasy Polish nobility finally gave Rasonski his chance to see what kind of a deal he could make with Napoleon, he got the old Count's permission to marry Dzjunka. She was unexpectedly docile, having decided with equal desperation to accompany him to Paris and there make her getaway...
...Paris, Rasonski's conference with Napoleon was as brief as it was fruitless. Dzjunka's one interview with the Emperor lasted slightly longer. As a souvenir she carried away a jeweled smelling-salts bottle and a future son. Although Rasonski got a vast Polish estate out of it and married Dzjunka, the knowledge of her infidelity turned him into a Napoleon hater, a valued Russian spy; inspired him with the cunning strategy of tormenting his wife by keeping a close watch over her, repaying her rebuffs and infidelities with perfect gallantry (meanwhile sublimating his venom by torturing...
Shortly before her death "by accident" in Vilna, Dzjunka betrayed Rasonski to Napoleon as a Russian spy. When her confession of this brought from Rasonski only an affectionate squeeze of the arm, even Dzjunka had to admit that her husband's masochistic gallantry had attained heroic pitch...
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