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A shadow passed over Herman's high brow. "Is one likely to forget such days?" he demanded. "Is one likely to forget how love may be turned to treachery and " "Pardon," the woman interrupted with dignity. "I did not come to be reproached, eccelenza. You have not forgotten Signor Hoffmeir?" "No," he answered, with a deepening frown.
Too honorable to betray her, he had meant to make the model his wife, and was betrothed to her with a solemnity of which he was keenly reminded to-day by the ring which she still wore upon her finger. Circumstances had convinced him, however, that Ninitta was deceiving him, and that she preferred the artist Hoffmeir, his best friend.
It is an intaglio that the artist Hoffmeir I have told you of our friendship in Rome gave me one Christmas. I returned it to him when I left Rome, and at his death he in turn sent it back to me." "But Hoffmeir has been dead several years." "More than six; but the ring has just come into my hands." The intaglio was a dark sard beautifully cut with the head of Minerva, and Mrs.
"I'd made up my mind to endure that, and any man with his over-sensitive temperament is better off on the other side of the grass than this any day. I may as well tell you, Mrs. Greyson, though as a rule I do not find much comfort in blurting out things. The fact is that Hoffmeir and I quarreled over a girl.
Then her gaze rested an instant upon her own work, and from that turned toward the robust form by the window. "Come, Mr. Herman," she said at length, in a tone half jesting, "I never saw you so somber." "It is not that Hoffmeir is dead, poor fellow!" Herman replied, answering her unspoken question.
She has followed me all these years, going through heaven knows what experiences and hardships, to bring me the proof that I was a madman blinded by groundless jealousy, and that instead of being wronged I cursedly abused both her and poor dead old Hoffmeir." Again there came an interval of silence. A lamp flickered and went out with a muffled sound.
"I hope nothing bad has happened," said Helen, quickly. "No, nothing; it's only this message from dear old Hoffmeir." He walked away and pulled aside the curtain which screened the lower half of the window overlooking the water, and stood gazing out at a vessel lying beside the wharf beneath. Mrs.
"Yes," she said, after a moment, as he did not continue, "it was broken off, but Signor Hoffmeir said that was because you did not understand, and that everything would be as it had been when you got his letter."
He remembered how Hoffmeir had discovered the girl drawing water from an old broken fountain he had gone out to sketch; and the difficulties that had to be overcome before she could be persuaded to pose. The Capri maidens are brought up to be averse to posing, and Ninitta had not long enough breathed the air of Rome to have overcome the prejudices of her youth.
He reflected, with a bitterness rendered vague by a certain strange impersonality of his mood, how different would have been his life had Hoffmeir been unable to overcome the girl's scruples.
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