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The proposed expedition for it cannot without hyperbole be called a war seemed to the council to combine the various characters required; a marked improvement in the public sentiment has followed even upon our preparations; and I cannot doubt that when success shall follow, the effect will surpass even our boldest hopes." "You are very adroit, Herr von Gondremark," said Otto.
She had never liked nor trusted Gondremark completely; she had still held it possible to find him false to friendship; but from that to finding him devoid of all those public virtues for which she had honoured him, a mere commonplace intriguer, using her for his own ends, the step was wide and the descent giddy.
Courage, indeed! If you had to scour pans, Herr von Gondremark, you would call it, I suppose, Domestic Courage?" "I would, madam," said the Baron stoutly, "if I scoured them well. I would put a good name upon a virtue; you will not overdo it; they are not so enchanting in themselves." "Well, but let me see," she said. "I wish to understand your courage. Why we asked leave, like children!
She looked towards Mittwalden; and above the hill-top, which already hid it from her view, a throbbing redness hinted of fire. Better so: better so, that she should fall with tragic greatness, lit by a blazing palace! She felt not a trace of pity for Gondremark or of concern for Grunewald: that period of her life was closed for ever, a wrench of wounded vanity alone surviving.
His words offended her to sickness; his appearance, as he grovelled bulkily upon the floor, moved her to such laughter as we laugh in nightmares. 'O shame! she cried. 'Absurd and odious! What would the Countess say? That great Baron Gondremark, the excellent politician, remained for some little time upon his knees in a frame of mind which perhaps we are allowed to pity.
"But now my eyes are open. If you go on as you have started, disgrace this fellow Gondremark, and publish the scandal of your divided house, there will befall a most abominable thing in Grünewald. A revolution, friend a revolution." "You speak strangely for a red," said Otto. "A red republican, but not a revolutionary," returned the Doctor. "An ugly thing is a Grünewalder drunk!
'If I had not seen you at work, if I did not know the fertility of your mind, I own I should tremble for the consequence. But it is in this field that men must recognise their inability. All the great negotiators, when they have not been women, have had women at their elbows. Madame de Pompadour was ill served; she had not found her Gondremark; but what a mighty politician!
'Herr von Gondremark, she replied, 'by all that I hold sacred, I have none; I do not think at all; I am crushed. 'You are looking at the passionate side of a rich nature, misunderstood and recently insulted, said the Baron. 'Look into your intellect, and tell me. 'I find nothing, nothing but tumult, she replied. 'You find one word branded, madam, returned the Baron: "Abdication!"
"Jealousy!" cried Gondremark. "Anna, I would never have believed it! But I declare to you by all that's credible that I am not her lover. I might be, I suppose; but I never yet durst risk the declaration. The chit is so unreal; a mincing doll; she will and she will not; there is no counting on her, by God! And hitherto I have had my own way without, and keep the lover in reserve.
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