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Updated: May 11, 2025
The flame of a gun leapt somewhere at the back of the platform, to be followed by complete, utter silence. Then came a sound. It was a hardly-suppressed moan. Father Adam reeled slowly. He half turned about. Then he crumpled and dropped to his knees and fell forward into hands outstretched to catch him. Paralysis seemed to grip that dense-packed human throng. But it was only for a second.
A quick convulsive hand-clasp, a last hungry glance into the loving face and the sorrow-dimmed eyes which looked so longingly down into mine, and with a hardly-suppressed cry of anguish I tore myself away, staggered blindly down the slipway, tumbled into the boat, and, as gruffly as I could under the circumstances, ordered the boatman to put me on board the Daphne. "Where are we going, Tom?"
Werner himself, probably, would have given him the work he wanted; but his eye had sidled a moment over Margarita, and the hardly-suppressed applause of the crowd at the stranger's speech failed to bring his ire into action this solitary time. 'Who is the maiden? he asked aloud. 'Fraulein von Groschen, replied Farina. 'Von Groschen! Von Groschen! the daughter of Gottlieb Groschen?
Werner himself, probably, would have given him the work he wanted; but his eye had sidled a moment over Margarita, and the hardly-suppressed applause of the crowd at the stranger's speech failed to bring his ire into action this solitary time. 'Who is the maiden? he asked aloud. 'Fraulein von Groschen, replied Farina. 'Von Groschen! Von Groschen! the daughter of Gottlieb Groschen?
The slightest occasion would have sufficed to cause the hardly-suppressed embers of deadly strife to burst into a flame. Through the zeal and diplomacy of the Archbishop, such occasion was averted.
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