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Updated: June 17, 2025
The death of the woman below had moved her deeply, for the wonderful charm of Florette's manner had won her also. Towards midnight Ulrich took the lamp and went upstairs. He had long since forgotten to spare others, by denying himself a wish. The knocking at the door and the passing to and fro in the entry had kept Frau Geel awake.
The prelate shrugged his shoulders, and answered smiling: "From the smithy at Richtberg." "Does he belong to Adam?" laughed the other. "Zounds! I had a bitter hour in the confessional on his mother's account. He has inherited the beautiful Florette's hair and eyes; otherwise he looks like his father. With your permission, my Lord Abbot, I'll call the boy."
But it no longer stood in the old place the owner of the house, a rich matron, who had been compelled to occupy an attic-room, while strangers were quartered in her residence, had taken charge of the pale orphan and the boxes after Florette's death. The good Netherland dame provided for the adopted child and the property of her enemy, the man whose soldiers had pillaged her brothers and cousins.
The death of the woman below had moved her deeply, for the wonderful charm of Florette's manner had won her also. Towards midnight Ulrich took the lamp and went upstairs. He had long since forgotten to spare others, by denying himself a wish. The knocking at the door and the passing to and fro in the entry had kept Frau Geel awake.
The money ain't goin' to be no comfort to that kid!" "The money?" "Florette's insurance made out to him. Tha's w'y I come. She wan'ed him to stay on here, see, till he was all educated. They's enough, too. She was always insured heavy for the kid. They's some back money comin' to you, too. She tole me. The reason w'y she didn't sen' it on was because she was out of luck an' broke, see?"
The new papa did not appear so formidable as Freddy had expected. In fact, he turned out to be only Howard, Florette's acrobatic partner. Freddy philosophically reflected that if one must have a new papa, far better so to call Howard, who necessarily encroached on Florette's time, than a stranger who might take up some of her leisure hours.
These things, piled high in a wagon of his own, he had sent into his native town as Florette's dowry, for her whole outfit consisted of one pink and one grass-green gown, a lute and a little white dog. A delightful life now began in the smithy for Adam. The gossips avoided his wife, but they stared at her in church, and among them she seemed to him, not unjustly, like a rose amid vegetables.
"After all I've put up with!" "Say, you ain't got any kick comin'! I treated you white, marryin' you, an' no questions asked." "What-ta you mean?" breathed Florette, growing deathly pale. Freddy, alarmed, half rose from his chair. "Sit down there you!" roared Howard. "What-ta I mean, Miss Innocence?" he said, mimicking Florette's tone. "Oh, no, of course you ain't no idea of what I mean!"
Ah, if she at last had seen that papas were not half so nice as Freddy's, he would not be hard on her. His heart swelled with forgiveness and love. He stole on tiptoe to Florette's bedside. "Flo," he whispered. The sobbing ceased. Florette held her breath and pretended to be asleep. Freddy wriggled his little thin body under the covers and threw his arms around Florette.
Surely, surely you must be suffering; you shall not go out at night to nurse sick people again!" The words came from an anxious heart, and sounded warm and gentle. They penetrated Florette's inmost soul, and overwhelmed with passionate emotion she clasped his hands, kissed them, and exclaimed, softly "Thanks, thanks, Pasquale, for your love, for all.
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