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Bearing in mind that the news of the household, even of a huge castle, filtered most often through women, he smiled back at them and said pleasantly in his new German: "Good morning. May I ask your names?" One was blond and the other brunette, and the brunette answered: "We're Ilse and Olga, maids of the household of His Highness, Prince Karl of Auersperg."
The lewd dogs would even have been rude to my old maid Ilse, a woman hard upon fifty, if an old cornet had not forbidden them.
Mid-day came, then evening, then midnight, and still no Master Peter appeared, and the matter became really serious. Dame Ilse knew right well what a torment she had been to her husband, and remorse caused her the gloomiest forebodings. 'Ah! Lucia, she cried, 'I greatly fear that your father has done himself a mischief. And they sat till morning weeping over their own fancies.
Be gorry, he ates everything that nobody ilse kin ate, and then ye kin ate him." Mike had had his expression of opinion, and shown to his own satisfaction that his judgments were worth something. Having done this, he became amiable, sympathetic, and even admiring.
An' phwin ar-re ye goin' to be marrit? For, av she's proud av ye, ye'll marry her but av she takes ut as a mather av coorse let some wan ilse git stung." Bill regarded the old man sharply, but in his bearing was no hint of jesting nor raillery, and the little eyes were serious. "Yes, there was a girl," said Bill slowly; "but she she does not know." "So ye've had a scrap wid her, too!
Terrence, do you mean a duel?" "Certainly, me frind, nothin' ilse. There's no way to get out of it, honorably." Fernando reeled as if he had been struck a blow. He had read of duels, but, in the solitude of his western home on the farm, he had never known of any. They were the bloody inventions of more polite civilization.
"And it might give even Prince Karl trouble to answer questions why she is here." John's pulses began to beat heavily despite all his efforts at calmness and he turned his face away that they might not see the eager light in his eyes. When he had mastered himself sufficiently to use a quiet voice he asked: "When is this great council of which you speak?" "In three or four days," replied Ilse.
So what with likin' the stir an' at the same time the safety an' comfort o' the wars, an' what with now an' thin a flirtashun in wan colour or another o' the human rainbow, with a bit of sport an' ridin' enough to kape me waist, I've been in the Rile Irish ivver since whin not somewhere ilse; though mostly, Ned, me boy, stone broke, an' ownin' no more than me bed an' me arms. Ye know this, Ned."
Here we are rolling in riches while he may be nibbling at hunger's table. And the very idea of such a thing made her weep, while even Dame Ilse said: 'I should not be sorry myself to see him come back there is always something lacking in a house when the good man is away. But the fact was that she was growing quite tired of having no one to scold. And what do you think happened?
While Ilse gathered up the gold and hid it away safely, the lovers whispered together, and what Friedlin told her seemed to make Lucia every moment more happy and contented. Now a great hurry-burly began in the house, and preparations for the wedding went on apace.
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