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Marietta shook her head with a laugh. "They're for the duchess without doubt, so we cannot beg for them, and must think of something in their stead. And now that we are entering upon the toilet question, your presence, Herr von Eschenhagen, is quite unnecessary. You don't know anything about such matters, and our chatter must weary you greatly.
We had a house out in Marietta, and one night grandfather got the notion he'd come over and see us. It just happened that there was a rather gay party going on and he arrived without any warning. Well, he took one look, he and this fellow Shuttleworth, and then turned around and tore right back to Tarrytown. After that he never answered my letters or even let me see him."
That about 'cosmopolitan amplitude Oh, isn't Flora too funny! means having music after dinner, I suppose. I don't know what else." "Of course," said Marietta, rising to go, "it doesn't make any difference what it was really like! Only the people that were there know that. The report in the paper " "Oh, Marietta, what a thing to say that it's all pretense, every bit and not "
He turned hesitatingly, and left the room, but the door behind him remained half open. Marietta glanced after him with a contemptuous curl of the lip and then turned back to her adversary. "You need give yourself no further uneasiness, my dear madame. I have come to Fürstenstein for the last time.
Willibald had been on guard when Marietta paid her first visit to Fürstenstein, had accompanied Toni to Waldhofen when she went to the old doctor's to see her friend, and he was now at his post again, to-day, in Antonie's boudoir.
"The Signorina Emilia," Marietta promptly informed him. "Really and truly?" questioned he. "Ang," affirmed Marietta, with the national jerk of the head; "the Signorina Emilia Manfredi the daughter of the Duca." "Oh ? Then the Duca was married before?" concluded Peter, with simplicity. "Che-e-e!" scoffed Marietta, on her highest note. "Married? He?"
Perhaps he had had the same thought but her words dispelled it. "Never mind, Etta," he said. "I wouldn't change with him;" and Marietta shut away the little speech in her heart to be happy over at her leisure. The next day the invalid was not as well as usual and Mrs. Jim spent half her time running up and down stairs.
A brighter recollection to all the Emerys was the justly complacent and satisfied remembrance of the house grounds during the first really successful social event they had achieved. It was a lawn-fête, given for the benefit of St. Luke's church, which Mrs. Emery and Marietta had recently joined. Socially, it was the first fruits of their conversion from Congregationalism.
"What is it?" asked Marietta quickly. "Why do you sigh?" "There is reason enough. Are you not betrothed to him, as you say?" Marietta straightened herself suddenly, and made him look at her. A quick light was in her eyes, as she spoke. "Do you know what you are saying?
"I can hitch to the bars, same as we used to," Jerry continued. "Remember how Underhill's old Buckskin used to crib the fence? Here's the very piece of zinc Blaisdell nailed on that summer we were here so much." He had turned and driven back, and while he tied the horse, Marietta took out the box of lilies. "I guess you better hold these loose in your hand," she said tentatively.
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