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"You are a coward!" and with that she turned to go. But Michael sprung after her and seized her by the arm. "Stop! I will take your advice and do what you tell me." "Then listen to me," said Athalie, and pressed so close to his face that he felt her burning breath. "When Herr Brazovics built this house, the room in which Timéa sleeps was the parlor. Who were his usual guests?
"If one traveled on foot one would get to Vienna in thirty days from here, and to Constantinople in forty days." "But you went in a ship." "That takes longer still; for I should have to take in cargo on the way." "For whom?" "For the owner I was traveling for." "Is Herr Brazovics still your principal?" "Who told you about him?" "The steersman who came with you."
And with that Herr Brazovics suddenly fell upon her, took her in his arms, and pressed two kisses on her pale face two loud, wet, malodorous kisses, so that the girl was quite confused. "You are a good fellow, Michael, to have brought her here so quickly. Have you given him a glass of wine? Go, Sophie quick! A glass of wine!"
If he happened to be in the company of a brave officer who would call him out, and spit him like a frog so!" Herr Brazovics threw a meaning glance on Herr Katschuka, who seemed as if he had heard nothing.
Toward the end of supper one evening, as the two sat alone at table, Herr Brazovics began to incite Timar to drink, by repeatedly taking wine with him. His own head was pretty strong from constant practice, but this poor devil could never have been used to the bottle. When they were well on the road, he cunningly brought up the subject.
From that day all Timar's undertakings flourished, and step by step he reached the summit of an ordinary successful business man's ambition the title of nobility. At the same time Brazovics, who had treated Timar with brutal inconsiderateness because of the wreck of the St. Barbara, went steadily down-hill, borrowing and embezzling trust monies in his fall.
He knows why he lives in a town where all his mercantile colleagues are his sworn enemies, where the people sitting before Brazovics' café send a curse after him every time he passes. That house too he means to get into his clutches, with all that therein is.
The day to which Timéa looked forward with secret alarm was really fixed for Herr Katschuka's marriage but with Fraülein Athalie. Only that various hinderances stood in the way of its arrival. Not in the stars, nor in the hearts of the lovers, but in the financial position of Herr Brazovics.
And now, Herr Brazovics, we two have met for the last time in your house, and you had better pray that you may never see the day when I come into it again." Timar turned on his heel and slammed the door behind him. The cuttle-fish drew back into the dusky depths of its smoky lair, poured down another glass of anisette, and considered that some answer ought to have been given. But what?
When the captain asked Athanas for his daughter's hand, he told him plainly that he could only marry if the wife's dowry was sufficient to keep house upon. Herr Brazovics made no objection. He was not going to be stingy about it: he meant to give his daughter a hundred thousand gulden on her wedding-day, and they could do as they liked with it.
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