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The three climbed up the narrow ladder and came past the great clock, the leaden weights of which, had they fallen, would have dashed through the stone steps, and soon the gentlemen sat on the highest point. The Kammerjunker requested the telescope, placed it and exclaimed: "Did I not think so? If one has not them always under one's eyes they begin playing pranks! Yes, I see it very well!
The Kammerjunker conducted the friends up the winding stone stairs into the old tower. "All solid and good!" said he. "We no longer build in this manner. The loop-holes here, close under the roof, were walled up already in my father's time. But only notice this timber!" The whole loft appeared a gigantic skeleton composed of beams, one crossing the other.
"It will be time enough this evening for strangers to know of it. The Kammerjunker and my Sophie are betrothed." "See, it was in the bright moonlight, Mr. Thostrup, that I became such a happy man!" said the Kammerjunker, and kissed the tips of Sophie's fingers. He offered his other hand to Otto. Otto's countenance remained unchanged, a smile played upon his lips.
He inquired whether we were Calvinists. "We sped through glorious scenes. The Alps looked like glass mountains in a fairy tale. They lay behind us. The air was warm as summer, but light as on the high mountains. The women wafted kisses to us; but they were not handsome, the good ladies! "Tell the Kammerjunker that the Italian pigs have no bristles, but have a coal-black shining skin like a Moor.
"Health to the bride!" said Sophie, and rung her glass; but soon again her intellectual eye rested upon the Kammerjunker, who was talking about asparagus and stall-feeding with clover, yet her glance brought him back again to the happiness of his love. It was a very lively evening. Late in the night the party broke up. The friends went to their chamber.
Most likely he was sending a note to say so. As she took off her outer garment in the hall, she heard the footman, pronouncing his "r's" even like a Kammerjunker, say, "From the count for the princess," and hand the note. She longed to question him as to where his master was. She longed to turn back and send him a letter to come and see her, or to go herself to see him.
The preacher had written a song to the tune of "Be thou our social guardian-goddess;" this was sung. Otto's voice sounded beautifully and strong; he rang his glass with the betrothed pair, and the Kammerjunker said that now Mr. Thostrup must speedily seek out a bride for himself. "She is found," answered Otto; "but now that is yet a secret."
On either side of the loft was a small vaulted chamber, with a brick fire-place. Probably these chambers had been used as guard-rooms; a kind of warder's walk led from these, between the beam-palisade and the broad wall. "Yes, here," said the Kammerjunker, "they could have had a good lookout toward the enemy. Look through my telescope.
I have now resolved with myself to be a reasonable girl. Believe me, however, Thostrup is in an ill humor!" "If the Kammerjunker were to pay his addresses to you, would you accept him?" asked Louise, and seated herself upon her sister's bed. "What can make you think of such a thing?" inquired she. "Hast thou heard anything? Thou makest me anxious! O Louise!
It certainly went on better when our cousin was here. Poor Thostrup!" "And thou, Sophie," inquired Louise, "dost thou return his love?" "It is a regular confession that thou desirest," replied she. "He is in love that all young men are. Our cousin, I can tell thee, said many pretty things to me. Even the Kammerjunker flatters as well as he can, the good soul!
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