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Such a piece of stupidity cannot be explained any other way. It's quite new, about as old as Sterne or Gessner. What makes me think it's a woman, is that the first literary idea of the whole sex is to take vengeance on some one." Adolphe might go on pulling "The Lotus" to pieces; Caroline's ears are full of the tinkling of bells.
Herr Gessner is not the man to deal ungenerously with them nor with you to whom he may owe so much." He was a shrewd man of the world, this amiable diplomat, and who can wonder that so simple a youth as Alban Kennedy proved no match for him.
A certain uneasiness as to what his new friends would think of him did not deter him from his sudden determination to turn westward and seek out his old haunts. He had warned Richard Gessner that no house would ever make a prisoner of him, and this quick desire for liberty now burned in his veins as a fever.
Gessner could have recited to you the most trivial detail attending the reception of Paul Boriskoff's letter and the claim it made upon him how a secretary had passed it to him with a suggestion that Scotland Yard should know of it; how he had taken up the scrawl idly enough to flush before them all an instant later and to feel his heart sink as in an abyss of unutterable dismay.
Richard Gessner, he understood, had always desired a brilliant match for Anna, and had sought an alliance with some of the foremost English families. If he abandoned these ambitions, a shrewd belief in the impossibility lay at the root of his determination. Anna would never marry as he wished. Her birthright and her Eastern blood forbade it.
And yet the mental power, the personal magnetism of Richard Gessner made itself felt almost before he had uttered a single word. "Will you take a seat, Mr. Kennedy I am dining in the city to-night and my time is brief. Mr. Geary, I think, has spoken to you of my intentions."
"An emperor, a widower of two wives," said he to himself, "and he treats us to an idyl of the genuine Gessner stamp! An imperial Damon who spends his time twining wreaths of roses with his Philis! Well he had better be left to play the fool in peace; his pastoral will keep him from meddling in state affairs.
The riches of the world could not purchase a devotion as precious, or any fine philosophy belittle it. He knew that she would go to Petersburg because Paul Boriskoff, her father, had need of her. This was her answer to his selfish complaints during the years of their exile. "And what am I to do if they give you the permission, Lois?" "To go back to London and marry Anna Gessner.
A little before twelve o'clock, he continues, came our kind young friend, Hannah Gessner, to accompany us to the ancient and worthy Bishop Hess. He is in his eighty-seventh year, but lively in spirit and active in mind. He is uncommonly liberal in his religious opinions, and his enlarged heart seemed to overflow with Christian love towards the followers of Christ under every name.
Think not that I do not know, for there are those who bring me the story every day. You worship Anna Gessner, but you live in a fool's paradise, for the father will forbid you to marry her. I say it and I know. Be honest and speak to my daughter as I have spoken to you to-night."
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