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So I will return you to the castle at Bellegarde, and it may be that Heitman Michael will reward me." Then Jurgen mounted this horse and rode away from the plowed field wherein nothing grew as yet. As they left the furrows they came to a signboard with writing on it, in a peculiar red and yellow lettering. Jurgen paused to decipher this.
Yet you married Heitman Michael, for all that, and in the teeth of a number of other fine declarations." "Oh, no, not I," said this Dorothy, wondering. "I never married anybody. And Heitman Michael has never married anybody, either, old as he is. For he is twenty-eight, and looks every day of it! But who are you, friend, that have such curious notions about me?"
This man would take away Dorothy, and leave the life of Jurgen to become a business which Jurgen remembered with distaste. It was unfair. So Jurgen snatched out his dagger, and drove it deep into the undefended back of Heitman Michael. Three times young Jurgen stabbed and hacked the burly soldier, just underneath the left ribs. Even in his fury Jurgen remembered to strike on the left side.
Yet when this life of ours too is over this parsimonious life which can allow us no more love for anybody, must we not win back, somehow, to that faith we vowed against eternity? and be content again, in some fair-colored realm? Assuredly I think this thing will happen. Well, but let that be, for I do not love Heitman Michael's wife."
It is therefore necessary that I raise some money without troubling him. How much abominable usurer! could you advance me upon this necklace?" Jurgen turned it in his hand. It was a handsome piece of jewelry, familiar to him as formerly the property of Heitman Michael's mother. Jurgen named a sum. "But that," the Countess says, "is not a fraction of its worth!" "Times are very hard, madame.
This man, at least, inherited his father-in-law's business, and found it, quite as he had anticipated, the fittest of vocations for a cashiered poet. And so, I suppose, he was content. Ah, yes; but after a while Heitman Michael returned from foreign parts, along with his lackeys, and plate, and chest upon chest of merchandise, and his fine horses, and his wife.
Indeed, what person could have foreseen that this implacable lady would have taken such a strong fancy for your company." "Ah, my young bantam," replies Heitman Michael, "it is quite true that she and I are acquainted. I may even boast of having despatched one or two stout warriors to serve her underground.
"I have promised to dance with him, and so I must. But the old fellow is a great plague." For Heitman Michael was nearing thirty, and this to Dorothy and Jurgen was an age that bordered upon senility. "Now, by heaven," said Jurgen, "wherever Heitman Michael does his next dancing it will not be hereabouts." Jurgen had decided what he must do. And then Heitman Michael saluted them civilly.
Now, as I divine your meaning, you plan that I should decrease her obligation by sending her a whippersnapper." "My notion, Heitman, is that since this dark goddess is about to leave us, she should not, in common gallantry, be permitted to go hence unaccompanied. I propose, therefore, that we forthwith decide who is to be her escort." Now Heitman Michael had drawn his sword. "You are insane.
"Heitman Michael is well enough, for a nobleman, and my brother is at me day and night to marry the man: and certainly Heitman Michael's wife will go in satin and diamonds at half the courts of Christendom, with many lackeys to attend her. But I am not to be thus purchased." "So you told a boy that I remember, very long ago.
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