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"Very unlikely," she replied. "And even if I did, what would it matter? I need not tell them anything, and Herr Haeberlein would get off all the same." He saw that she was too pure and too unconventional to understand his objection, but his whole heart rebelled against the idea of letting her undertake the task, and it was only after much persuasion that she drew from him a reluctant consent.
As he spoke he took up the end of a speaking tube which communicated with the green room, Haeberlein watching his movements with the placid, weary indifference of one who is perfectly convinced that he is in the right hands. Presently the door opened and Erica came in.
"No, she has become a Christian," said Raeburn, speaking with some effort. "So!" exclaimed Haeberlein, without further comment. He himself was of no particular creed; he was just indifferent, and the zeal of his friend often surprised him. Raeburn went out into the passage, drew Erica into the front sitting room, and closed the door. "There is an old friend of yours in my study," he said.
He is of opinion that 'there are mony ways of killing a dog though ye dinna hang him, and, upon my word, he's not far wrong." He was besieged here by two or three people who wanted to ask his advice, and Donovan turned to Erica. "He has been feeling all this talk about Herr Haeberlein; people say the most atrocious things about him just because he gave him shelter at the last," she said.
Haeberlein, though growing perceptibly weaker, still lingered, able now and then to enter into conversation, but for the most part just lying in patient silence, listening with a curious impartiality to whatever they chose to read to him, or whatever they began to talk about.
"I've had some bad falls, but I've always fallen on my feet. With a good cause, a man has little to fear." "If this WERE a good cause," said Raeburn, with significant emphasis. "It was the least I could do," said Haeberlein, with the chivalrous disregard of self which was his chief characteristic. "I only fear that my coming here may involve you in it which Heaven forfend!
"How did you get your name?" she asked, suddenly. "It is so pretty and so uncommon." "Oh," said Erica, without thinking, "I was called after my father's friend, Eric Haeberlein." "Eric Haeberlein?" exclaimed Rose. "Why, I was reading something about him this afternoon. Here it is look!"
Erica was very proud of her name, for she had been called after her father's greatest friend, Eric Haeberlein, a celebrated republican, who once during a long exile had taken refuge in London. His views were in some respects more extreme than Raeburn's, but in private life he was the gentlest and most fascinating of men, and had quite won the heart of his little namesake. As Mrs.
"You are perfectly right," replied Erica, still speaking in her quietly dignified voice. "I have known Herr Haeberlein since I was a baby, so you will understand that it is quite impossible for me to speak with you about him after hearing the opinions you expressed just now." For once in his life Mr. Cuthbert felt ashamed of himself.
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