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Soon enough she would have Hedwig's trousseau on her mind, so that day she bought for Hilda Hilda whose long legs had a way of growing out of skirts, and who was developing a taste of her own in clothes. So Hilda and her mother shopped endlessly, and the Crown Prince sat in the carriage and watched the people.
The sturdy man from Subiaco seemed like iron, for he ate sparingly and drank less, and went out into the village to secure a conveyance and to inquire the nearest way to Ceprano. But when, as I have said, Nino had guarded Hedwig's door for five hours he woke me from my sleep, and by that time it was about two in the afternoon. "Hi, Messer Cornelio! wake up!" he cried pulling my arm.
Fraulein Hedwig's favourite song was called Ich liebe dich, I love you; and one evening after she had sung this, when Philip was standing with her on the balcony, looking at the stars, it occurred to him to make some remark about it. He began: "Ich liebe dich." His German was halting, and he looked about for the word he wanted.
She had the grace to flush. "Under the circumstances," the King resumed, "Hedwig's marriage takes on great significance great political significance." For a half-hour then, he talked to her. More than for years, he unbosomed himself. He had tried. His ministers had tried. Taxes had been lightened; the representation of the people increased, until; as he said, he was only nominally a ruler.
Lieutenant Larisch only grew quite red as to the ears, when love was mentioned, although he appeared not unwilling to hear Hedwig's name. The Crown Prince had developed a strong liking for the young officer. He assured Hedwig one time when she came to tea that when he was king he would see that she married the lieutenant. But Hedwig was much distressed. "I don't want him that way," she said.
Hedwig went on going through the form of dusting the huge metal-bound chest, which had attracted the mistress' eyes as a new article of furniture. Had her husband turned miser since Fortune had whirled on her wheel at his door as soon as she quitted it? It was not Hedwig's place, and it was not in her power to solve enigmas, so she answered nothing.
He told me, months afterwards, that when he passed through the courtyard, on his way to Hedwig's apartment, he found Benoni seated on the stone bench, smoking a cigarette and gazing into space, so that he passed close before him without being noticed. Temistocle closed the door, then opened it again, and looked out, after which he finally shut it, and seemed satisfied.
As he left them, Minna buried her face in Aunt Hedwig's capacious bosom and cried bitterly, and Aunt Hedwig also cried; and Herr Sohnstein, laying aside for the moment his pipe, put his arms protectingly around them both. They all were very miserable. In the upper room, where the air seemed so stifling that he had to open the window wide in order to breathe, Gottlieb was very miserable too.
Then in an instant he was Napoleon, which was easy, of course; and the next second, with one of the fur tails which had come unfastened from Hedwig's muff, he had become a pirate, with the tail for a great mustache. One of the very best things he did, however, was to make a widow's cap out of a tea-napkin, and surmount it with a tiny coronet, which was really Hedwig's bracelet.
Nino called softly to the man with the mules to wait in the shadow, and Temistocle knocked at the door. The key ground in the lock from within, but the hands that held it seemed weak. Nino's heart beat fast. "Temistocle!" cried Hedwig's trembling voice. "What is the matter, your excellency?" asked the servant through the keyhole, not forgetting his manners. "Oh, I cannot turn the key!
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