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With what words she herself did not know: but she gathered from the gentlemen's talk that Gyáli had been driven from the company the night before for some flagrant dishonor. Since two days she too had detested that fellow. Lorand meanwhile gazed after his brother with eyes flashing with a desire for vengeance. Topándy grasped Lorand's hand.
Desiderius too rose from his chair, seeing the sitting was interrupted, but could not resist the temptation of pouring out the overflowing bitterness of his heart before somebody; and, as Madame was displeased and Melanie was chatting with Lorand of trifles, he was obliged to address his words directly to his only hearer, to Sárvölgyi, who remained still sitting, like one enchanted, while his gaze rested ever upon Desiderius' face.
There were always two gentlemen and two lady dancers in the house party; the beautiful wife of the P. C. and Fraülein Matild, the governess: Lorand and Pepi Gyáli. Pepi was the son of a court agent at Vienna, and his father was a very good friend of Bálnokházy; his mother had once been ballet-dancer at the Vienna opera a fact I only learned later.
He had found his presence everywhere more needful, that he might be so much less at home. Czipra could not bear the agony long. Once finding Lorand alone, she turned to him in wanton sarcasm. "Indeed?" said Lorand, caressing the girl's round chin, for all the world as if he was touching some delicate flower-bud. "Why all this tenderness at once?
A few weeks previously he had told his uncle that a steward's house was required: and Topándy had dug a lime-pit in the garden, where it would not be in the way. Only yesterday they had filled it to the brim with lime. The robber wished to drag Lorand with him into it. The young fellow planted his feet firmly and held back with all his might.
Lorand, after his shot, immediately fell on his knees: and it was very lucky he did so, for in the next moment Kandur discharged both his barrels from beside the pillar, and the aim was true, as Lorand discovered from the fact that the bullets dislodged leaves just above his head, that came fluttering down upon him. Then he turned to the third side.
"That infidel?" exclaimed Lorand; then he added bitterly, "It was a good idea of yours, indeed: I shall have a very good place in the house of an atheist, who lives at enmity with the whole earth, and with Heaven besides." "There you will be well hidden." "Well and for ever." "Don't say that. This danger will pass away." "Listen to me, Desi," said Lorand severely.
You must fly far: away to foreign lands." "Why?" asked Lorand coldly. "Why? My God, what questions you put. I don't know how to answer! Can you not see that I am in despair, that every limb of my body trembles for my fear on your account? Believe me, I cannot possibly allow them to take you away from before my eyes, to imprison you for years, so that I shall never see you again."
I will be silent and watch you." Lorand took his brother in his arms and kissed him. "I have to pay a visit somewhere where you could not come with me." Desiderius listlessly felt for his cap. "Yet I did so want to be with you this evening." "To-morrow will do as well." Lorand was afraid that the officers of justice might come any moment for him.
I always with Melanie, and Lorand with her mother. When the company dispersed, we went down to Lorand's room on the ground floor, Pepi accompanying us. I thought he was going to pick a quarrel with me, and vowed inwardly I would thrash him. But instead he merely laughed at me. "Only imagine," he said, throwing himself on Lorand's bed, "this boy is jealous of me." My brother laughed too.
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