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"I should be glad," the Colonel answered simply. "You and she are, for some unhappy reason, not on speaking terms. That " "Good God!" the Colonel interrupted, "whom do you mean? Whom are you talking about?" "About your daughter whom I shielded the companion of the Baroness de Sturm. Your daughter Louise." The Colonel raised his trembling fingers to his forehead. His voice quivered ominously.
He came running to me, his face red with excitement. "M'sieur le Capitaine!" he cried, my hand in both of his, "I thought you were dead." "And so I have been dead as a cat drowned in a well, that turns up again as lively as ever. Any news of the baroness and the young ladies?" "A letter," said he. "Come, get off your horse. I shall read to you the letter." "Tell me how were they taken?"
Clementina, who had a good appetite, remained with their host and made ready to talk scandal of her mistress and insinuate that the baroness wanted to get some money without her husband's knowledge, whilst Henrietta locked herself up with Anicza in the latter's bedroom and talked with her concerning things which had no relationship whatever with money.
One day there would be a series of entertaining games; another day there would be a play on a hastily improvised stage, in which the baroness herself would take a part, and win well-deserved applause by her graceful and artistic acting.
He, who used to go everywhere and be so jolly, now hides himself in his den, and is never seen at all. Just see how disagreeable it is! If he had come with us, he would have written an account in 'L'Actualite' of Little Moo-Moo, and Yamada's operetta would already be celebrated." "So," continued the Baroness, "when I return to Paris, I am going to hunt him up.
He remembered the vacant bed at the Asylum, which Baroness Duvillard had promised to keep in reserve until he should have asked Abbe Rose if he knew of any case of destitution particularly worthy of interest; and so before sitting down to table he spoke of the matter. "Destitution worthy of interest!" replied Abbe Rose, "ah! my dear child, every case is worthy of interest.
In order to preserve this reticence, unslumbering care and many precautions were absolutely necessary. It is said the Princess was constantly under the eye either of the Duchess of Kent or the Baroness Lehzen. The guard proved sufficient; yet it was difficult to evade the lively intelligence of an observant sensible child.
"Very well," said the baroness, in a subdued voice; for, in spite of her will and wilfulness, this square-faced boy of mine was more than a match for her. "Very well, you will believe me another day, and now I will ask you to go, for I am tired." I cannot be interrupted by your silly questions about the exact way in which things happened.
The count intends to wed in a few weeks." He had been watching, while speaking, the effect of this announcement on the lovely face before him. Baroness Katharina, however, acted as if nothing interested her so much as the letter she was embroidering with gold thread on a red streamer for a militia flag.
She had long since won the heart of the Baroness von Stein, who had introduced her at the Weimar court and held out to her the hope of becoming a lady-in-waiting to the Duchess Luise. Goethe was fond of her and did not omit to send her affectionate greetings from distant Italy.
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