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Updated: May 12, 2025
His accomplishments, and perhaps, also, a certain aristocratic grace of manner unconsciously caught from the Baron von Herisau, speedily won for him the favor of the Count and Countess Kasincsky, and emboldened him to hope for the hand of the Countess' sister, Helmine , to whom he was no doubt sincerely attached.
Helmine fully shares this feeling, and her poor heart is too painfully moved to allow her to reply. Do I not say, in saying this, what her reply must be? But, though her heart cannot respond to your love, she hopes you will always believe her a friend to whom your proffered devotion was an honor, and will be if you will subdue it to her deserts a grateful thing to remember.
But Lucie was unreasonable enough to object to a menage a trois, and at length succeeded in marrying Helmine to a Lieutenant von Blucher. In 1822 the Graf accompanied his father-in-law to the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, and shortly afterwards was raised to princely rank, in compensation for the losses he had sustained through the annexation of Silesia by Prussia.
I re-read this letter very carefully, to determine whether it was really intended for "Otto." It ran thus: "DEAR FRIEND, I will not say that your letter was entirely unexpected, either to Helmine or myself. I should, perhaps, have less faith in the sincerity of your attachment if you had not already involuntarily betrayed it.
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