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If I inquire point-blank for Steinbock, I shall be laughed at to my face. Take the bull by the horns!" Reine appeared in answer to his ring. "Tell Monsieur le Comte Steinbock to come at once, his wife is dying " Reine, quite a match for Stidmann, looked at him with blank surprise. "But, sir I don't know did you suppose " "I tell you that my friend Monsieur Steinbock is here; his wife is very ill.
To go through such an experience again she would have sold her soul to the Devil. "I am engaged to be married," Steinbock replied, "and I love a woman with whom no other can compete or compare. But you are, and always will be, to me the mother I have lost." The words fell like an avalanche of snow on a burning crater. Lisbeth sat down.
Thither she went with Steinbock, recommending him as an apprentice in sculpture, an idea that was regarded as too eccentric. Their business was to copy the works of the greatest artists, but they did not teach the craft. The old maid's persistent obstinacy so far succeeded that Steinbock was taken on to design ornament.
For the past ten months she had made a reality of her cousin's imaginary romance, believing, like her mother, that Lisbeth would never marry; and now, within a week, this visionary being had become Comte Wenceslas Steinbock, the dream had a certificate of birth, the wraith had solidified into a young man of thirty.
The mountaineer is perplexed; an able man, a dead shot, who must undo the puzzle or lose faith in his skill, is a tremendous pursuer, and the mountaineer follows the steinbock ever. A 'sennderin' at a 'sennhutchen' tells him that she admitted the steinbock last night, and her curled hair frizzled under the steinbock's eyes.
Steinbock would not allow himself to be eclipsed by his friend; he too was witty, said amusing things, made his mark, and was pleased with himself; Madame Marneffe smiled at him several times to show that she quite understood him. The good meal and heady wines completed the work; Wenceslas was deep in what must be called the slough of dissipation.
"Feed him and his horse, and I'll undertake to get rid of him before that detestable Steinbock comes. Besides, he might prove a valuable witness in drawing up the papers." "I never thought of that. It will not do to trust Steinbock wholly." Gretchen turned her searching eyes once more upon me. I confess that I had some difficulty in steadying my own.
If I inquire point-blank for Steinbock, I shall be laughed at to my face. Take the bull by the horns!" Reine appeared in answer to his ring. "Tell Monsieur le Comte Steinbock to come at once, his wife is dying " Reine, quite a match for Stidmann, looked at him with blank surprise. "But, sir I don't know did you suppose " "I tell you that my friend Monsieur Steinbock is here; his wife is very ill.
The Minister of War and the old officers of the Imperial Guard have subscribed a sum large enough to enable us to select our artist." "Oh, monsieur, it will make my fortune!" exclaimed Steinbock, overpowered by so much happiness at once. "Be easy," replied the Baron graciously.
At this point the anchorite was interrupted, for Hermas entered the cave, and laying a young steinbock, that he had killed, before the two men, exclaimed, "fine fellow, and he cost me no more than one arrow. I will light a fire at once and roast the best pieces. There are plenty of bucks still on our mountain, and I know where to find them."
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