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But, of course, if the gentleman is to buy the farm, I suppose there would naturally be an end." "To be sure," said Mr. Gottesheim, with a strong accent of conviction. But Ottilia was much braver. "There now!" she cried in triumph. "What did I tell you? I told you I was fighting your battles. Now you see! Think shame of your suspicious temper!
'O, then Kuno carried him home; and they were the best of friends from that day forth. I don't say it's a discreditable story, you observe, continued Mr. Gottesheim; 'but it's droll, and that's the fact. A man should think before he strikes; for, as my nephew says, man to man was the old valuation. 'Now, if you were to ask me, said Otto, 'I should perhaps surprise you.
Gottesheim, with unction. "And by what name, sir, am I to address my generous landlord?" The double recollection of an English traveller, whom he had received the week before at court, and of an old English rogue called Transome, whom he had known in youth, came pertinently to the Prince's help. "Transome," he answered, "is my name. I am an English traveller. It is, to-day, Tuesday.
Killian Gottesheim had presented him to his daughter Ottilia, Otto followed to the stable as became, not perhaps the Prince, but the good horseman.
Fritz is a good lad. 'Fritz is young, said the Prince dryly; 'he must earn consideration, not inherit. 'He has long worked upon the place, sir, insisted Mr. Gottesheim; 'and at my great age, for I am seventy-eight come harvest, it would be a troublesome thought to the proprietor how to fill my shoes. It would be a care spared to assure yourself of Fritz.
Fritz is a good lad." "Fritz is young," said the Prince drily; "he must earn consideration, not inherit." "He has long worked upon the place, sir," insisted Mr. Gottesheim; "and at my great age, for I am seventy-eight come harvest, it would be a troublesome thought to the proprietor how to fill my shoes. It would be a care spared to assure yourself of Fritz.
He had been of great strength in his time, and of a handsome countenance; but now he was fallen away, his teeth were quite gone, and his voice when he spoke was broken and falsetto. 'You will pardon me, said Otto. 'I am a traveller and have entirely lost my way. 'Sir, said the old man, in a very stately, shaky manner, 'you are at the River Farm, and I am Killian Gottesheim, at your disposal.
But, of course, if the gentleman is to buy the farm, I suppose there would naturally be an end. 'To be sure, said Mr. Gottesheim, with a strong accent of conviction. But Ottilia was much braver. 'There now! she cried in triumph. 'What did I tell you? I told you I was fighting your battles. Now you see! Think shame of your suspicious temper!
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