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She had not even taken her dogs with her, and her face was set and almost sullen as she passed out of the door and down the walk. All this was so unlike her that Mart was greatly troubled. It gave weight and significance to every word of Alice Heath's warning. Bertha was gone till nearly six o'clock, and her mood seemed no whit lightened as she entered the gate and came slowly up the walk.
Therefore, Alice hastened on to other more general topics. She was very sprightly, but Bertha maintained a determined silence through it all, quite unable to understand the girl's confidences. When the men came out Alice took Haney to herself, and they seemed to enjoy each other's society very keenly; indeed, their mutual absorption became so complete that Ben remarked upon it to Bertha.
He seized her hand, and his words fell with a warm and alluring cadence upon her ear. "I shall not see you for a long time to come, Bertha," said he, "but if at the end of five or six years your hand is still free, and I return another man a man to whom you could safely intrust your happiness would you then listen to what I may have to say to you? For I promise, by all that we both hold sacred "
"O Bertha!" said a girl's voice, broken by sobs and terrified catching of the breath, "you are kind-hearted; I know you are. You saved a little dog that the dreadful boys were trying to drown. Will you save me, though I am beneath a dog in your eyes?" "Who are you?" asked astonished Bertha. "I am Hester, the daughter of Aaron," said the girl, "and there is a deadly raid on our quarter.
Every hour was full of misery day and night there was a gnawing at my heart. At last my mind gave way, and the justice of heaven struck him with death and me with madness!" Bertha paused an instant, quite exhausted, then again exerting herself, she said: "I do not ask you to forgive me but forgive each other." "They have forgiven each other already," said Father Omehr. "They are friends."
"I don't suppose we're likely to need bread of a sort, but I don't feel able to buy or rent and keep house or I didn't till Haney made this offer." "How did he come to make it?" His fair skin flushed at her question, for he couldn't quite bring himself to tell the whole truth. He knew the decision came from Bertha, and at the moment, and for the first time, he saw how it might be misconstrued.
There might, perhaps, be a note somewhere which she had overlooked: after the most diligent search, none was to be found. There were pens, ink, and paper upon the little table which Madeleine generally used, but not a word of writing was visible. The sight of pen and ink suggested an idea which had not before occurred to Bertha. She sat down and wrote to Maurice.
She was angry with her dead husband and with her dead father and mother; she was indignant with the people amongst whom she was now living, whose eyes were always upon her so that she dared not allow herself any freedom; she was hurt with Frau Rupius, who had not turned out to be such a friend that Bertha could rely on her for support; she hated Klingemann because, ugly and repulsive as he was, he desired to make her his wife; and finally she was violently enraged with the man she had loved in the days of her girlhood, because he had not been bolder, because he had withheld from her the ultimate happiness, and because he had bequeathed her nothing but memories full of fragrance, yet full of torment.
The acquaintance thus commenced was not suffered to drop; and handsome Carl and our good little Bertha were fairly over head and ears in love, and had begun to have serious thoughts of a cottage in a wood, et cætera, when their felicity was disturbed by their being accidentally met, in one of their walks, by the baron.
Bertha felt that Anna was not telling her the whole story and she would have liked to beg her not to hesitate, but to open her whole heart to her. She knew, however, that she was not clever enough to express such a request in the right words. Then, as though Frau Rupius had guessed that Bertha was anxious to learn more, she quickly changed the subject of their conversation.
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