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"God help us! Moritz, we must go at once," exclaimed Regine. Schönau had already rung and he ordered horses and carriage to be got ready at once. "And now, Stadinger, tell us how it happened." "The Herr Baron was on his way from Ostwalden to Fürstenstein," began Stadinger. "The way lay through the Rodeck lands, not far from the Castle.
"You speak as though the poor soul had lost her character just because she went on the stage." "So she has, so she has!" Regine answered excitedly. "Who ever enters that Sodom and Gomorrah goes down to the bottom at once and can never rise again." "That's flattering to the Court theatre company, at least," said Schönau dryly. "But we go to see them just the same." "As spectators!
He did not finish, for Stadinger, who had followed the servant stood in the doorway, and said in a suppressed tone: "I come upon a family matter, Herr von Schönau, but it is a sad one. I cannot wait, but must speak with you at once." "What is it? speak out!" said the head forester. "Has any misfortune happened to the prince? He's not at Rodeck?"
"It is the truth," growled Schonau, regretting that his anger had led him into a disclosure of the plot against the king's life, but like most weak characters fearing to admit himself in error even more than he feared the consequences of his rash words. "Do you intend taking my sword?" asked Schonau suddenly, turning toward Lieutenant Butzow standing beside him.
I could now engage four spacious and well- appointed rooms in the same house the Eiche at Schonau where I had before lived in such straitened and frugal circumstances. I invited my sister Clara to pay us a visit, and also my good mother, whose gout necessitated her taking the Toplitz baths every year.
You always have been at the head of a great establishment, and that's where you should be now, so I " "Don't begin again, I beg you." "No, I don't mean Burgsdorf this time," said von Schönau, looking down at his riding boots. "I only meant you're all alone in the city, and I'm all alone at Fürstenstein, and when Toni marries, it will be very weary.
His son is not at Fürstenstein either, he's at college studying forestry, and so I was entertained by the daughter of the house, Fräulein Antonie von Schönau. I had a weary hour, I can assure you. A word every five minutes, and a minute getting that one out. She's a fine housewife, I fancy, with no brains for anything beyond.
For some time before the events that had transpired after he had brought Barney and the Princess Emma to Blentz he had commenced to have his doubts as to the true patriotism of Peter of Blentz; and when he had learned through the unguarded words of Schonau that there was a real foundation for the rumor that the regent had plotted the assassination of the king his suspicions had crystallized into knowledge, and he had sworn to serve his king before all others were he sane or mad.
Do Herr von Schönau and Antonie agree with you in what you have just said?" "As regards the root of the matter, certainly. But I would not have you think for a moment that they would refuse to " a very expressive shrug of the shoulders concluded this sentence.
Then I returned to Dresden, and at last, in wonderful weather, undertook the pleasant journey to Toplitz with Minna and one of her sisters, reaching that place on 9th June, where we took up our quarters at a second-class inn, the Eiche, at Schonau.
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