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We felt sweet unity with Pastor Gessner, and believe him to be a gospel minister. On parting he took me in both arms, and said, in such a feeling manner that the words went to my very heart, "The Lord bless thee, and put the words of his wisdom into thy mouth." On the 6th they went to Berne, and the next morning they inspected Fellenberg's institution at Hofwyl.
Acting secretly and with a strong man's discretion, no bruit of this odd conversion had been made public, no whisper of it heard in the camp of the Revolutionaries. Many knew Maxim Gogol none had heard of Richard Gessner. His desire for secrecy was in good accord with the plans of a police he assisted and the bureaucracy he bribed.
The Archbishop ate a succulent morsel and drank a long draught from the unadorned black bottle. "Nothing is known of Kennedy at Hampstead," he interposed, "I have made diligent inquiries of the gardener there, and he assures me that our dear friend never returned from Poland and that no one knows anything of him, not even Mr. Gessner.
Alban looked the speaker frankly in the face and answered without hesitation: "He has told me that you wish to employ me, sir." "That I wish to employ you yes, it is not good for us to be idle. But he has told you something more than that?" "Indeed," the curate interrupted, "very much more, Mr. Gessner.
A cynical reverie altogether from which the butler's purring voice awakened him. "Will you have your coffee in the Winter Garden, sir? Mr. Gessner always does." "Cannot I have it in the garden?" "Oh, yes, if you like, sir. We'll carry out a chair the seats are very damp at night, sir." Alban smiled. Was he not sleeping on the reeking floor of the caves but twenty hours ago.
For weeks past Gessner had lived as a man who carried a secret which he dared to confess to none. Night or day made no difference to him. He lived apart, seeing many strangers in his study and rarely visiting the great bank in Lombard Street where so many fortunes lay.
Aye, and this was the supreme consolation that if Alban would consent, he, Gessner, would so earn his devotion and his love that therein he might arm himself against all the world. But would he consent? How if this old habit of change asserted itself and took him back to the depths? Gessner breathed quickly when he remembered that such might be the end of it.
These two ideas occurred to me so strongly, and were connected in such a manner in my mind, that I was determined to endeavor to unite them by treating after the manner of Gessner, the subject of the Levite of Ephraim.
If the girl has told them what she knows of Herr Gessner and his past, I would not be in his shoes to-night for a million of roubles heaped up upon the table. No, no, we have no time to lose we owe it to him to act with great dispatch." Alban did not make any immediate reply.
"Oh, my dear, you do not know the Russian people, you do not know what it means to stand against the police here and have them for your enemies. Mr. Gessner is their friend. The Government would do a great deal to serve him my father says so.
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