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Updated: May 7, 2025
Frau von Eschenhagen was in her sitting-room, and opposite her sat the Major, who had arrived but fifteen minutes before. Her conversation must have been as disagreeable as it was earnest, for Falkenried listened with a face which grew darker at every word, as she went on with her account. "Hartmut seemed to me greatly altered after the third or fourth day he was here.
Her brother shrugged his shoulders and said half aloud: "He can grow up an ignorant country squire for all of me perhaps it's the best thing for him after all." Hartmut and Willibald had, in the meantime, reached the tolerably extensive forest which belonged to the estate.
The young man related in a few words all that had happened, but he had not finished when a bitter laugh from his mother interrupted him. "Of course, they are all in the plot together to keep me from my child. And your father? He has threatened and punished you again as if you were a criminal, because you have been in your mother's arms?" Hartmut shook his head.
Now the eyes which looked into the heavens above were sad and dreamy, and there rested in them an expression of ardent longing. A light step, almost unheard on the soft ground, approached, and the low bushes rustled as if against a silk garment. Then they parted and a woman's figure appeared and stood looking intently at the young dreamer. "Hartmut!" The boy started and sprang up instantly.
Herr Rojanow has a very contemptuous opinion of our country, I can assure you. He expressed himself most forcibly to that effect, the other day in the wood." The prince listened attentively. These words explained to him what he had at first thought so singular; why Hartmut had not mentioned to him the meeting with the baroness.
The prince's face bore a surprised look when he heard Hartmut address this lovely girl as madame, and saw that she knew him.
"That was why I had a horror of the man to whom nothing was holy, who knew no law but his own passions; but when I saw you pleading at your father's feet, I felt fate rather than guilt had led you astray. Since then I have known that you could not throw aside that unfortunate heritage of your mother. Rouse yourself, Hartmut! The way which I showed you then is yet open.
Then suddenly something black swooped down like a flash of lightning from the height above them into the water, and a second later rose again in the air with the slippery, glittering prey in its beak. "Bravo, that was a good catch!" cried Hartmut, rising. But Will spoke angrily. "The wretched robber robs our whole pond. I will speak to the forester and tell him to fill him full of lead."
Now I cannot spare you the bitter alternative; you can only belong to one of us, and must shun the other; you must accept that as your fate." Hartmut bowed his head; he felt that nothing more was to be said.
"How you can permit such liberties is incomprehensible." "It is natural that you should not understand it, Hartmut," said his friend, earnestly. "You only know the submissiveness of Sclavish servants in your own home, and in the Orient. They kneel and prostrate themselves whenever opportunity offers, and betray their masters at every turn, when it can be done with safety.
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