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Ernest took up a pen and commenced. "The date," said the lady. Ernest wrote it. "Received of Anna Von Berlingen the sum of three thousand ducats." Ernest wrote and repeated, "three thousand ducats." "In consideration whereof, I promise to marry the aforesaid Anna Von Berlingen." "To marry you?" exclaimed Ernest. "Ay to marry me!" said the lady. "Am I deformed am I ugly am I poor?"
At length his last ducat was gone. He rose and left the room, the last words ringing in his ears being, "Make your game, gentlemen, while the ball rolls." Despairing and heart-stricken, the young man sought his hotel and his chamber. On the staircase he encountered Madame Von Berlingen, but he saw her not. His eyes were glazed. He did not notice or return her salutation.
As he left the house, the unfortunate young man encountered a person whom he at once recognized as the Baron Von Dangerfeld, the reputed suitor of Madame Von Berlingen. "I have been looking for you, Captain Walstein," said the baron, sternly. "And you have found me," answered the young man, shortly. "Yes and I thank Heaven you wear that uniform.
The elliptical area over which this fresh-water formation has been traced extends, according to Sir Roderick Murchison, for a distance of ten miles east and west from Berlingen, on the right bank of the river to Wangen, and to Oeningen, near Stein, on the left bank.
When he had paid some little attention to his toilet, he received a message from Madame Von Berlingen, requesting the favor of an interview in her apartments. He mechanically obeyed the summons, though ill fitted to sustain a conversation with a lady. The widow requested him to be seated. "Mr. Walstein," said she, with a smile, "you are growing very ungallant.
But you already seem to have made your way to the good graces of Madame Von Berlingen, the rich widow who resides at this hotel." "Bah! she is forty," answered Ernest, carelessly. "But in fine preservation, and a beauty for all that," said Captain Steinfort. "The Baron Von Dangerfeld was desperately in love with her; but within a few days, the widow seems rather to have cut him.
The young man bandaged the wound of his adversary, and as he faltered from the loss of blood, led him towards the farm house. As they approached it, two ladies advanced to meet them one of them was Meena, the other Madame Von Berlingen. "Dangerfeld wounded!" cried the latter, bursting into tears "O, I have been the cause of this: forgive me forgive me, Dangerfeld, or you will kill me."
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