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It is I who must find this treasure, this fulcrum to the lever which is going to upheave France. There will be no difficulty then in pricking the pretty bubble. In the meantime we shall proceed to Munich and carefully inquire into the affairs of the grand opera singer, Hildegarde von Mitter." He extracted a wallet from an inner pocket and opened it across his knees. It was full of butterflies.
The most renowned scholar in Europe, at the time, was the Herr Doctor Franz Reikmann, who lived in Heidelberg. All Germany was proud of the venerable scholar, who lived in the simplest way, for great scholars are always poor. He was poor, as to money, but very rich in his sweet young daughter Hildegarde and his library.
I tell you once for all, I hate you, Hildegarde." Was this Zora's return for her cousin's love? The princess would fain have expressed her grief and amazement. "Pray don't try to talk, my bonny wee thing! It is not one of your gifts, at present. Your voice has ceased to be musical. I can sing now as well as you. Go to nibbling grass, deary, and a long life to you!"
Accordingly, with eighteen of her nuns, Hildegarde withdrew to a new convent at Rupertsberg, which English and American travellers will remember because it is not far from Bingen on the Rhine. Here she came to be a centre of attraction for most of the world of her time. She was in active correspondence with nearly every important man of her generation.
Probably they would never meet again. And yet "I am Hildegarde von von Heideloff," giving her mother's name. He was too nice to frighten away. The hesitance over the "von" did not strike his usually keen ear. He was too intent on noting the variant expressions on her exquisite face. It was a pity she was dark. What a figure, and how proudly the head rested upon the slender but firm white throat!
Well, I wished to find out what kind of man he is, but I wasn't very successful. Hildegarde," and he pressed his hand down hard over hers, "I could find a priest the day we land if you would love me. You will always remember that." "As if I could ever forget your kindness! But you forced him; there is no merit in such a confession. And I wonder how you forced him. It was not by fear.
"No," he said solemnly "no, Count Dönhof, so long as I can not govern my land in peace, I dare seek no other bride than my own good sword." And smilingly, as if he had heard nothing, as if nothing uncommon had happened, the Elector returns to the conservatory. The Princess Hildegarde also smiles, looks cheerful and happy, and dances with all the cavaliers. But not with the Elector!
Hildegarde thought she was shrieking, but her friend only shook her head. "That comes of asking stupid questions," said Hildegarde to herself; and she lowered her head and fought her way on in silence.
Then she grew crosser than ever, and the frown on her brow ploughed deeper still. She dreamed every night of horrible goblins and slender green snakes. All the while, poor Hildegarde roamed about the park. The other lambs were content to nip the sweet grass, and frisk in the sun; but the princess remembered something better, for her soul did not sleep.
Ye are yer mother's darter, after all. Shall I give ye a swing now, before I go; or are ye too big to swing!" "I don't know!" said Hildegarde, eying the swing wistfully. "Am I too big, I wonder?" "Yer ma warn't, when she was here three weeks ago!" said the farmer. "She just sot heer and took a good solid swing, for the sake of old times, she said."
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