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Updated: May 28, 2025
You must consent to be taught; you cannot possibly know everything!" They fixed a time for the morrow, and Bernardine went off with the camera; and meeting Marie on the staircase, confided to her the piece of good fortune which had befallen her. "See what Herr Allitsen has lent me, Marie!" she said. Marie raised her hands in astonishment.
In the deaconess's house, the body of the Dutchman. In God's heavens, God's stars. Robert Allitsen and Bernardine walked silently for some time. "Well," she said, "now tell me."
In God's name, see what you can do!" Bernardine waited to hear no more, but, like a storm-driven swallow, fairly flew across the lawn to the house, without even stopping a moment to give the least explanation concerning the strange horse and buggy which she had left in the groom's hands. As the man had said, the greatest excitement pervaded the mansion.
"God help poor Bernardine!" she sobbed. "I do not know how to save the darling girl. I think I will lay the matter before my dear young friend, Doctor Gardiner. He is bright and clever. Surely he can find some way out of the difficulty. Yes, I will go and see Jay Gardiner without delay; or, better still, I will write a note to have him come here to see me."
"Even though you kill me, you shall not learn from my lips the whereabouts of Bernardine Moore!" exclaimed Jay Gardiner, hoarsely. As the hours dragged their slow lengths by, exhausted nature asserted itself, and despite the hunger and burning thirst he endured, and the pain in his head, sleep "Tired Nature's sweet restorer balmy sleep" came to him.
He was reading about Nero at the time; but he put aside his Gibbon, and fondled the flowers instead. Bernardine did not know that. One morning when she was out, he went into the shop and saw a great change there. Some one had been busy at work. The old man was pleased: he loved his books, though of late he had neglected them. "She never used to take any interest in them," he said to himself.
Fräulein Müller always insisted on talking English with Bernardine; and as her knowledge of it was limited, a certain amount of imagination was necessary to enable her to be understood. "Ah, Miss Holme," she said, "I have deceived an exquisite report from the Doctor." "You are looking ever so well," Bernardine said. "And the love-making with the Spanish gentleman goes on well, too?"
That was a few days ago, but to-day, when Bernardine was playing chess with the Swedish Professor, Mrs. Reffold came to her. There was a curious mixture of shyness and abandon in Mrs. Reffold's manner. "Miss Holme," she said, "I have thought of such a splendid idea. Will you go and see Mr. Reffold this afternoon? That would be a nice little change for him." Bernardine smiled.
This is the old part of the mansion," said the housekeeper, turning to go. "Am I near any one else?" asked Bernardine, her heart sinking with a strange foreboding which she could not shake off. "Not very near," answered the housekeeper.
I was in the camp when he was recapturing Dantzic from the Germans.81 He had something to write; and, fearing that he might go to sleep, he took a pinch, sneezed, and twice patted me on the back. ‘Father Robak,’ he said, ‘Father Bernardine, perhaps we shall see each other in Lithuania before the year is over. Tell the Lithuanians to receive me with Czenstochowa tobacco; I take none but that.’ ”
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