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"You mean the queen, his wife. But tell me, when he endeavored to procure a divorce from Bertha, who prevented the criminal separation? Was it the boasted chivalry of Suabia? No!
"I dare say that I ought not to have repeated this to you," replied Bertha, who now experienced some self-reproach at betraying her friend's secret to one whom it, perhaps, so deeply concerned; "but I am very certain that Madeleine distinctly rejected Maurice, and, when he attributed her refusal to his grandmother's and his father's disapproval of his suit, she denied that she was influenced by them, and confessed that her heart was not free, that she had bestowed it upon another."
Morton and Don Hernan could not help glancing a look at each other, as they observed the similarity of feature, but the tranquil, contented look which those of Bertha wore offered a strong contrast to the agitated unsettled expression of Hilda's.
"Oh yes, very glad!" replied Bertha assiduously. "My frame of mind is generally dependent on the weather. During that thunderstorm a few days ago I was utterly depressed, and then, when the storm was over " Frau Rupius interrupted her. "That is the case with every one, you know." Bertha grew low-spirited.
Of course, I didn't come here to apologize I thought you'd understand well enough without that. The gang's out of cash, and I came to tap the reserves. Let me have a package of the long green, Bertha." It was a moment before she spoke.
"Shame! that thou canst give that name to mortal woman!" "But she is my mistress," answered Bertha, "and by a thousand kind ties which cannot be separated so long as gratitude is the reward of kindness." "And what is her danger," said Hereward; "what is it she wants, this accomplished lady whom thou callest mistress?" "Her honour, her life, are alike in danger," said Bertha.
The notes of the organ died away, the string orchestra began to take up the melody. Bertha turned her head in the direction of the choir. Somehow, it seemed strange to her that Emil should, incognito, so to speak, be playing the solo in a Haydn Mass here in the Lerchenfelder Church.... She looked at the female figures in the front seats.
I will wait, however, until Bertha has accepted him. "I have made up my mind, George," he said, later on. "If I hear that Miss Greendale has accepted Carthew, I shall go to her mother and tell her the story. I have little hope that it will do much good.
He prevailed on his sister-in-law to come to Vienna, so that she could help Bertha to tide over the first few weeks of her bereavement, besides, in some slight degree, distracting her thoughts. He settled the business affairs capably and quickly.
The eyes closed again, and an expression of pain or regret passed over the face. "Do you suffer?" asked Sara gently. The head was shaken slightly. "Not in body, but I'm almost sorry it wasn't true." "What, Bertha?" "My first thought, that it was all over, and you were the angel appointed to waken me in the other world."
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