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I visit your house because I swore to your dead friend and kinsman, who came to such a dreadful end, that I would look after his orphan child. I come here to see how the orphan committed to your care was treated. She is shamefully treated, Herr Brazovics, disgracefully! I say it to your face in your own house.
"What a fatality!" said Brazovics, trying to give an angular form to his round face, and taking his hand from the girl's head. "But no accident happened to him?" A curious question. But Timar understood it. "He intrusted his property to my care, to deliver it over to you with his daughter. You were to be her adopted father and the guardian of her property."
Brazovics and Frau Sophie began to talk in a gibberish which was intended for Greek. Timéa understood a word here and there, but the sense seemed to her more strange than those languages which were altogether unknown to her. They were consulting what to do with this girl whom they had been saddled with. Her whole property consists of twelve thousand paper gulden.
"He! he! he!" laughed Herr Brazovics jovially, like a boy who is caught in a bit of mischief. "Now then, Michael, won't you keep us company?" "Shouldn't think of it. If you want to win a couple of hundred gulden from me, I had better pay them now; but to sit the whole night gambling and drinking, no, thank you." "He! he! he! Well, go up to the ladies then; they are upstairs.
The crew all left the sinking craft, and Timar rescued Timéa, and with her the casket with the thousand ducats. Then the captain drove off with the fatherless girl to the house of Athanas Brazovics in the town of Komorn.
And in future," he added aside, "you may be sure no one will ever get us out of the saddle. Strike while the iron is hot." Timar promised to do so, and mentioned his intention to Brazovics when he next met him. The latter seemed furious at the ill-treatment his friend Michael had received. Who could the scoundrel be who had so libeled him?
The husband will be good to her, and if he should find her out in infidelity, he will kill her. The principal thing is that she should have a pretty face, bright eyes, fine hair, and a sweet breath no one asks about her heart. But Timéa had learned in a different school in the house of Brazovics.
A heart of gold indeed! A man of gold! But in his heart a voice continually whispered, "It is not true! It is all false!" Herr Brazovics usually drank coffee after dinner, and had it served in the ladies' sitting-room, which he filled unmercifully with clouds of Latakia tobacco.
"Whoever it may be," Timar declared, "shall rue it dearly; and if he has a house in Komorn, I'll lay my head that this joke will cost him his home. I am going to-morrow morning to Vienna, to demand satisfaction from the treasury." "Yes, do so, by all means," said Brazovics; and thought to himself, "Just as well that I know it; I shall be there too."
His debts and liabilities rested on the shoulders of those who had been his good friends, and stood security for him, and among these was my husband. "Then came Athanas Brazovics, and required from the sureties the fulfillment of the contract.
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