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Updated: May 23, 2025
She had thought at first that Frau Professor Bergmeister might allay her longing for these comfortable, middle-aged, placid-eyed friends of hers. But the Frau Professor Bergmeister had proved to be a frivolous and garrulous old woman, who substituted ease for comfort, and who burned a candle on the name-day of her first husband while her second was safely out of the house.
"Tell the Frau Professor Bergmeister with my compliments," he said, "that because some idiot at home sent me five pounds of tobacco, hearing from afar my groans over the tobacco here, I have passed from mere financial stress to destitution. The Austrian customs have taken from me to-day the equivalent of ten dollars in duty. I offered them the tobacco on bended knee, but they scorned it."
Should he, the teacher of the great Koert, be kept waiting for a chit of a girl only, of course, he said "das Kindchen" or some other German equivalent for chit and then have her come into the sacred presence breathless, and salute him between gasps as the Frau Professor Bergmeister?
It was just in time. Harmony's funds were low, and the Frau Professor Bergmeister had gone to St. Moritz for the winter. She regretted the English lessons, but there were always English at St. Moritz and it cost nothing to talk with them. Before she left she made Harmony a present. "For Christmas," she explained.
You had just proposed to me." "Oh, if that's all that's necessary " He stopped in the center of the busy Ring with every evident intention of proposing again. "Please, Peter!" "Aha! Victory! Well, what about the Frau Professor Bergmeister?" "She asks so many questions about America; and I cannot answer them." "For instance?" "Well, taxes now. She's very much interested in taxes."
Peter brought the news home at noon, and that afternoon Harmony was engaged. It was little enough, but it was something. It did much more than offer her two Kronen an hour; it gave her back her self-confidence, although the immediate result was rather tragic. The Frau Professor Bergmeister, infatuated with English and with Harmony, engaged her, and took her first two Kronen worth that afternoon.
It was the day for a music-lesson. Harmony arrived five minutes late, panting, hat awry, and so full of the Frau Professor Bergmeister that she could think of nothing else. Obedient to orders she had placed the envelope containing her fifty Kronen before the secretary as she went in. The master was out of humor.
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