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It was truly ridiculous: one boy jealous of another. Yes, I was surely jealous, but chivalrous too. I think I had read in some novel that it was the custom to reply in some such manner to like ridicule: "Sir, I forbid you to take that lady's name in vain." They laughed all the more. "Why, he is a delightful fellow, this Desi," said Pepi. "See, Lorand, he will cause you a deal of trouble.
Suddenly he stopped, and half aside addressed me, always in the same passionate tones. "Desi, you are still a child." "I know." "There are things which cannot yet be explained to you." "On such subjects you may hold your peace." "You have spoken with that woman's husband?" "He said, you had eloped with his wife." "And that is why you came after me?" "Yes." "Now what do you want?"
"Even in your absence I cannot say more than I have already said." "Are you in your senses then?" grandmother sternly addressed me thinking harsh words might do much with me. "Do you wish to play mysteries with us: surely you don't think we shall betray him?" "Desi," said mother, in that quiet, sweet voice of hers. "Be good." So, they were deceived in me.
Pepi did not allow himself to be called to order. "It is true, my dear Desi: and I can tell you that you will have a far more grateful part to play around Melanie, if she marries someone else." Then indeed I went home. This cynicism was something quite new to my mind. Not only my stomach, but my whole soul turned sick.
And after me he called out "Prosit, Sir Lieutenant-Governor." I had no desire to be angry with him. I felt too sad to quarrel with any one. Henrik was indeed slaving away at the table, and the candle, burnt to the end, proved that he had been at it a long time. "Welcome, Desi," he said good humoredly. "You come late; a terrible amount of 'labor' awaits you to-morrow.
Forsooth old Susie herself will say to me, "I shall never see you again Master Desi." And till now I always thought I was angry with Susie; but now I remark that it will be hard to leave her. And my dear mother, the invalid, and grandmother, already so grey-haired!
"Go upstairs, Desi, to the governess and ask her whether she intends to come to the ball to-night, or if the lady of the house is going alone." Desiderius listlessly sauntered out of the room. He thought that to-day was scarcely a suitable day to conclude with a ball; still he did go upstairs to the governess.
I felt that it degraded me in her eyes. I could not discover what to do with that dollar. I scarce dared to look at Melanie when he departed; still I remarked that she did not look at me either when I left. At the door Lorand seized my hand. "Desi," said he severely, "that thing that the P. C. thrust into your hand you must give to the butler, when he opens the carriage door." I liked the idea.
"To Sárvölgyi's?" said Czipra, clasping her hands, and coming closer to Lorand. "You will go to Sárvölgyi's?" "Not just for Sárvölgyi's sake," said Lorand very seriously, "who is in other respects a very righteous pious fellow; but for the sake of his guests, who are old friends of Desi's. Why, I have not yet told you, Desi.
Oh, Desi, no marriage is possible here, as long as mourning lasts." And as she said this to prevent me loving her, she only forced me to love her the more. "How far above me you are!" "Why those two short years will fly away, as the rest. Our thoughts for each other do not date from yesterday, and, as we grow old, we shall have time enough to grow happy.
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