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Then did I resolve to reveal myself to her; then did I swear with a most passionate oath to tear myself from her, and to fly; then did I burst out into tears, and concert with Bendel how in the evening I should visit her in the Forester's garden.
Bendel related all this with many tears, and wept for joy that I was once more safely restored to him, after all his fears and anxieties for me. In me, however, such a state of things only awoke despair. My dreadful fate now stared me in the face in all its gigantic and unchangeable horror.
The benevolent-looking man whom I had seen by my bedside was Bendel; the beautiful lady in black was Minna.
Yesterday he, and all the newly- engaged servants whom you had hired, served me honourably, and cheerfully assisted me to enjoy the banquet." No more was said on the subject. Rascal remained at the head of my domestics. Bendel was my friend and confidant; he had by this time become accustomed to look upon my wealth as inexhaustible, without seeking to inquire into its source.
The young gentlemen had the horses, which they had ridden, in their stables, and they praised the liberality of Mr. John who on that day made them a present of them. Thus much was clear from the circumstantial relation of Bendel, whose active zeal and able proceeding, although with such fruitless result, received from me their merited commendation. I gloomily motioned him to leave me alone.
At the age of twelve, he was thrown on his own resources, and connected himself with music publishing houses in Chicago. After various public performances, he went to Germany in 1868, to study the piano under Bendel and Kullak, and counterpoint under Kiel. In 1872 he returned to Chicago and gave a concert of his own works.
But no! alone on the high waste sea of thy bitter flood! and long out of the last cup of champagne the elfin has vanished! I had sent forward Bendel with some purses of gold to procure for me in the little town a dwelling adapted to my needs.
"One stroke of your pen, and the unhappy Minna is rescued from the clutches of the villain Rascal, and transferred to the arms of the high-born Count Peter merely a stroke of your pen!" My tears broke out with renewed violence; but I turned away from him, and made a sign for him to be gone. Bendel, whose deep solicitude had induced him to come in search of me, arrived at this very moment.
In this she had been disappointed; Bendel had treated her like any other of his pupils; she was still playing Haydn and Czerny, and saw endless vistas of similar composers "back of these." Dove laid the whole blame on Bendel's method which he denounced with eloquence and strongly advocated her becoming a pupil of Schwarz.
She answered: "Yes and no; I am acquainted with them, but I do not care to know them." "Why not? They seem to be very nice." "Because " "This morning I met the husband on the terrace and we took a little walk together." Seeing that there was danger in the air, Bendel added: "It was he who spoke to me first." His wife looked at him in a displeased manner.
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