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Updated: May 7, 2025
'Twas very shabby of you to desert Frau von Wallmoden and me. You have not, I fear, won the lovely lady's favor. You were most ungracious." "I shall have to endure my misfortune as best I can," said Hartmut with a shrug. The young prince came nearer, and laid his hand affectionately on his shoulder. "Or perhaps you incurred her displeasure day before yesterday?
Adelheid was silent; she had felt sure that those few lines would be as death to him. Slowly she stepped toward him in the shadow of a great tree, the wind blew so fiercely that it was a necessity to have such protection as the trees could afford; Hartmut did not seem to notice its increasing fury. "I see that you know what those few lines contained," he began again, "but it was not new to you.
"The only one in the whole world who loves you," he repeated slowly. "You seem to forget that you have a father." "Who has never loved me," cried Hartmut with excessive bitterness. "Since I have found my mother, I have learned for the first time what love is." "Hartmut!"
Notwithstanding her hard, unyielding nature, deep down in her heart there had always been a warm feeling for the man who was to have been her husband long years ago, for Hartmut von Falkenried.
If Wallmoden saw his old friend's son and recognized him, he might not be able, for the moment, to master his surprise. Hartmut did not fear this meeting, though he knew it would be both painful and uncomfortable. There was but one in the whole world whom he feared; but one pair of eyes under whose gaze he would lack courage to lift his own, and in all probability he would never meet that one.
He turned to the door to order the groom to bring around the horses. Hartmut, on the point of following him, turned once more to glance from the window at the carriage, which could be seen through an opening in the trees. He clenched his fist as he muttered: "We will speak yet, Herr von Wallmoden. I will remain now. He shall not imagine that I am a coward and flee from him.
Hartmut was startled, when, upon reaching the top step, he recognized Frau von Eschenhagen. The lattice-work had prevented his recognizing her, and for her presence he was not prepared. But at the very moment when he realized who it was, the ambassador's words sounded in his ears. He understood only too well what the tone and words implied and the blood rushed to his temples. "Hartmut!"
"Do you know what that severity has cost me against my only, my dearly loved child?" "Father!" The word had a shy, hesitating sound, but it was not the old shyness and fear; there lay in it a joyful, almost incredulous astonishment, and Hartmut gazed on his father's face as if he could never take his eyes from it.
Herbert was right, I should not have allowed Hartmut to leave my side for an hour, under any circumstances. But I believed him to be so safe from every approach here at Burgsdorf. And he was so rejoiced at the thought of spending his little vacation here, had so set his heart upon it, that I had not the strength to refuse him; and then he is seldom happy except when away from me."
"Yes, with you in Germany," Hartmut repeated slowly, as he fixed his eyes dreamily on the forest shadows. "Are you as much prejudiced against us as ever?" asked Egon. "I had to beg you hard enough to get you to come with me, for you seemed resolved never to put foot on German soil again." "I would I had not done so," said Rojanow, darkly. "You know "
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