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"You are ill-bred enough to do it; I can't think why Marina, the future schoolmistress, does not give you a good smacking," said I. Then Aunt Alma chimed in: "What's the matter children? What game are you playing?" "It's not a game at all; Erwin wants to spit on the carpet and he seems to think that would be all right."
Erwin said, in the nicest way possible, but very firmly, that a lawyer who hired himself out to enable one man to take advantage of another prostituted his talents: that the brains of the legal profession were out of politics in these days, and that it was almost impossible for the men in the legislatures to frame laws that couldn't be evaded by clever and unscrupulous devices.
The unbreeched artist of four summers never tired of scrutinizing the statues, monsters, gargoyles and other outer ornamentations, while the story of the pious architect Erwin and of his inspirer, Sabine, was equally dear. Never did genius more clearly exhibit the influence of early environment. True child of Alsace, he revelled in local folklore and legend.
Instantly the flames burst forth as the big airship plunged downward, only a little behind the falling body of its pilot. With great effort for the excitement had weakened the lad did Erwin bring his scouting plane to an easier level and gait. Then he looked down. Already both burning biplane and falling pilot had vanished.
It had never occurred to her, until now, when she saw him out of the element with which she had always associated him, that Peter Erwin had a personality. That personality was a mixture of simplicity and self-respect and common sense.
Well, the whole tribe arrived to-day; Marina in a dust-grey coat and skirt that fits her abominably, and Erwin and Ferdinand; Ferdinand is going through the artillery course in Vienna, at the Neustadt military academy; he's the most presentable of the lot.
"Are you strong enough now to take my place?" "I I think so," returned the still reviving Erwin. "What you going to do land?" At this juncture the machine hit the ground in a decreasing glide, while Blaine, half rising, pitched forward as if dead. "Take the machine, Orry," Blaine had said. "I'm dead; you're wounded." Knowing that Blaine had his plans laid, Erwin followed.
Erwin und Elmire and Claudine von Villabella, if I may say so, are ideal operettes, which breathe so lightly and airily that, with the accompaniments of music and acting, they would be in danger of becoming heavy and prosaic; in these pieces the noble and sustained style of the dialogue in Tasso is diversified with the most tender songs.
He doesn't know what love is." Peter Erwin glanced at her, but she was too absorbed then to see the thing in his eyes. He made no comment. "We haven't the same tastes, nor nor the same way of looking at things the same views about making money for instance. We became absolute strangers. What more is there to say?" she added, a little defiantly.
But they would come on to New York to visit her often, and they would be proud of her. Of one thing she was sure she must go home to them at once on Tuesday. She would tell Mrs. Holt to-morrow, and Susan to-night. And, while pondering over the probable expression of that lady's amazement, it suddenly occurred to her that she must write the letter immediately, because Peter Erwin was coming.
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