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Updated: June 14, 2025
"And my mother was a physician's daughter, so we might well be called a medical family, might we not? I'm the only one who has branched off into another profession." "Ah what a pity," said Frau von Eschenhagen, impressively. The young girl looked at her puzzled. Was she joking?
"And to think of this excited child leaving you standing at the back door, while she came in to play and sing to decoy me from my study," said Dr. Volkmar shaking his head. "That was very impolite, Marietta, very impolite indeed." The young girl laughed merrily, and shook her short, curly hair. "O, Herr von Eschenhagen has not taken it amiss.
I won't have my Toni marrying a lieutenant; I will buy them an estate and they will be married at Christmas." "I am greatly rejoiced on Toni's account," said Frau von Eschenhagen, heartily. "You take a great load from my heart by this news." "And now," said the head forester, nodding to her, "you should follow my example and take a load from the heart of another betrothed couple.
But come, let us leave this ardent lover to finish his nap in peace. He has good strong nerves, I must say that for him." With these words the irate father gave Antonie his arm and led her from the room. But Frau von Eschenhagen, already highly incensed, felt that her son's inattention to his sweetheart was an additional insult, and now turned upon poor Willibald in a fury.
"When I last saw you at Fürstenstein I was to be the future son of that house, but " "That's all changed," interrupted Egon, laughing. "I know all about it from a comrade of mine, Lieutenant Walldorf, who is to marry your cousin, Fräulein von Schönau. My words had reference to Fräulein Marietta Volkmar." "Now Frau von Eschenhagen." "What! you are a married man?" "And have been for five months.
"Oh, you need not manifest so much respect for me, Herr von Eschenhagen, I will permit you to stand by the piano. Has Toni never told you that I belong to the theatre?" "Toni? No!" stammered Willibald, greatly disconcerted. "But she is waiting for me. I must go to Fürstenstein. I have stayed here much too long already." "How extremely polite," laughed the girl, with a good-natured sneer.
Frau von Eschenhagen stretched out her hand to the young maiden. "I have grieved you sorely, Marietta," she said half aloud, "and have done you great injustice, but you have repaid me by taking my boy from me, my boy, who loved no one but his mother until he met you, and now loves none but you. I believe that makes us quits." "O, Will loves his mother as much as ever," cried Marietta eagerly.
Willibald was roused now. He continued: "I am no boy, I am the heir of Burgsdorf, and twenty-seven years old. You have always forgotten that, mother, and so have I, for that matter, but I remember it to-day." Frau von Eschenhagen gazed astonished at her son, so tractable all his life until this moment. "I verily believe you are becoming refractory.
"I need not fear a duel when I mention your names to one another," he said laughing. "You'll have to meet some day. Herr von Eschenhagen Herr von Walldorf." "Bless me! I at least declare for peace!" cried Walldorf gaily. "Herr von Eschenhagen, I am rejoiced to know my future wife's cousin, who got ahead of us at the altar.
Theatre, vacation, director, what did it all mean? The doctor noticed his astonishment. "Herr von Eschenhagen does not know what you are, my child," he said quietly. "My granddaughter has been educated for an opera singer."
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