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It was no comfort to reflect that Fairford would probably continue to say nothing! But necessity made light of these twinges, and Ralph set his teeth and cabled. Undine's chief surprise seemed to be that Laura's response, though immediate and generous, did not enable them to stay on at St. Moritz.
"I am charmed to have had the experience of visiting the Baths," we once heard an invalid say, "for I know now that I am capable of enduring anything and everything." But this, let us hasten to assure the reader, is an exaggeration the mere babbling of an ingrate. The Upper Engadine Valley, in which Saint Moritz is situated, has, as well as the Baths, its detractors and its admirers.
Moritz hotel, nor did she stir out during the next day until it was dark, when she walked a few yards up the main street to buy a rucksack and an alpenstock. Early next morning, close wrapped and veiled, she took a carriage to the Restaurant du Glacier. Here she met an unforeseen check.
"You are jealous," she said. "That shows that you love him still. No. It is not a woman." "Corbario?" The name rose instinctively to Aurora's lips. "Yes," Regina answered. "That is why I am left alone this morning. Signor Corbario is at Saint Moritz and Marcello is gone down to see him. I know he is trying to separate us. You did not know that he was so near?"
"You experience nothing and you tell nothing," concluded Boris, and he laid his head down on the grass again and pulled his hat over his eyes. The two young men were silent; Boris seemed to be sleeping, Moritz sat leaning up against the trunk of the willow and looked out upon the plain, over which a uniform hum could be heard, the profoundly reassured activity of a sunny work-day.
"You don't look well on it, Bunny," said he. "I never did believe in this Thames Valley. You want a change of air." I wished I might get it. "What you really want is a sea voyage." "And a winter at St. Moritz, or do you recommend Cannes or Cairo? It's all very well, A. J., but you forget what I told you about my funds." "I forget nothing. I merely don't want to hurt your feelings.
In taking down the body the men loosened the earth on a shelving bank, and the gravel rolling away disclosed a skeleton with some bits of clothing on it that were identified as belongings of Samuel Moritz. Was it conscience, craziness, or fate that led old man Baker to hang himself above the grave of his victim? "Hell, with the fires out," is what the Bad Lands of Dakota have been called.
"All right," Moritz continued obstinately. "But you did enough crazy things on her account, so you must have loved her." "If you call that love in German," responded Boris, "then I am sorry for your poor German language." "Is that so?" Moritz was provoked. "Then what is Polish love?" "Polish love," said Boris, yawning discreetly, "Polish love is something infinitely delicate.
The counsellor of legation, Moritz, a brother of the chancellor, came from this time often to our house. He was even more a man of the world, had a handsome figure, while his manners were easy and agreeable. He also managed the affairs of different persons of rank, and on occasions of meetings of creditors and imperial commissions frequently came into contact with my father.
But for the sake of those for whom the weight of innate conviction is not sufficient proof, I may here mention that in December, 1864, Professor Moritz Carrière, in Munich, when conversing with me about Beethoven's Letters, expressly assured me that these three letters were genuine, and that he had seen them in Berlin at Bettina v.
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