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With Greif's more simple and straightforward nature, truthfulness, and such virtues as go with it, were invested with all the superior importance which religion gives to each present act of life, and so far as the future was concerned, a semi-conscious faith in the efficacy of principle supplied the place of Rex's well thought-out combinations and philosophical disquisitions about relative right and wrong.
It was quite certain that they had not formerly haunted his dreams; whereas now he could not close his eyes without seeing Hilda's face, and Greif's beside it. Though their absence was more than disagreeable to Rex, he was, on the whole, rather pleased than otherwise when he discovered how much he regretted their presence.
The conclusion was quite in accordance with Greif's prudent nature, which instinctively distrusted the evidence of its senses beyond a certain point, and desired to prepare its experiments with true German scepticism, leaving nothing to chance and fortifying the conclusion by the purification of the means. 'Thank you, he said at last. 'I will not hear any more at present.
If Greifenstein had been a murderer, as well as a suicide, his son could not have Hilda for his wife. It was Greif's misfortune, and the baroness gave him all the pity she could spare from her own child, but the point could not be yielded. She closed her eyes and tried to think it over.
That did not help her to realise what an illness meant. She could only recall the look on Greif's face when he had reeled to the chair and then thrown his head back, while his closed lids turned purple. For a long time that was the only picture evoked in her mind when sickness was spoken of. Frau von Sigmundskron looked at her daughter, without understanding her thoughts.
Rex fixed his stony stare, that contrasted so strangely with his beautiful face, upon Greif's eyes. He saw there an uncertainty, a vague uneasiness, that answered his question well enough. 'Yes, answered the younger man in a doubtful tone, 'I suppose I am. 'I think your happiness is not complete, said Rex, turning away. 'Perhaps my simple plan may help you. Interrogate yourself.
He seemed to think the question over quickly. 'If you have any objections to his resting here, he said presently, 'I will take him away. Do not let any feeling of delicacy prevent you from being frank. 'Let them lie together, replied Frau von Sigmundskron. 'It would be Greif's wish. You are very thoughtful, Herr Rex, but you must not think that any such unkind feeling can exist any longer now.
With Korps students, the butterfly becomes sooner or later a crawling, philistine grub. The moral superiority of the worm over the moth is manifest in his works. Have you read your speech over? 'I know it by heart. Help me with the scarf, will you? 'Vanity of vanities! laughed Rex as he began to knot the coloured silk. Greif's costume is worth a word of description.
It would have been contrary to custom and etiquette for the Swabians to manifest any noisy satisfaction at the result of the affair, but as Rex drew back he was surrounded and hemmed in by Greif's comrades, who tore the rapier from his grasp, pressed his gloved hands, untied the strings and loosed the buckles of his jerkin, wiped the slight perspiration from his face, and divested him of all his defensive accoutrements almost before he had breath to speak.
Again Greif's head sank upon his clasped hands, and again the deadly silence descended upon the chamber. The long December night was over and it was broad dawn when the two men got out of the express train at the station nearest to Greifenstein.
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