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"Well," sighed she, "I agree to this; but I fear that my cousin, Count Kindar, will be seriously displeased if I suddenly refuse him the dance I promised him." "He will excuse you, sweetheart, when I beg him to do so," said Lord Elliot, with a soft smile. "I will seek him at once, and make your excuses. Be kind enough to wait for me here, I will return immediately."
Lord Elliot made no reply, but smiled coolly, and Camilla's eyes filled with tears of rage. "Cousin," said she, turning to Kindar, "will you not free me from the presence of this contemptible creature, who dares to affront and "
You are my dear, faithful cousin Kindar, and I hope you will not leave your poor cousin, but give her counsel and assistance." Baron von Kindar took Camilla's offered hand and pressed it to his lips. "Count upon me as upon your faithful slave, who would gladly die for you, as he cannot live for your sake." "Listen then, beau cousin," whispered Camilla, smiling.
"Does Baron von Kindar make this boast?" cried a voice behind her. Camilla turned and saw Lord Elliot standing in the door; he looked at her with a cold, contemptuous glance, which wounded her far more than a spoken insult would have done. "Why are you here, sir?" she cried. "With what right do you dare force yourself into my presence?"
This comparison was doubtless somewhat insulting, and he resolved at last to fight." "Ah, he accepted the challenge!" cried Camilla, casting a sudden glance upon Kindar; but oh, how ugly, how pitiful, how repulsive did he now appear to her! She closed her eyes, in order not to see him.
I then gave him permission to return to Berlin. For myself, I drove to Sans-Souci, asked an audience of the king, and obtained his consent to a divorce. You know, madame, that I have a soft and yielding nature. I never could refuse a wish of your heart. I therefore implored his majesty to allow of your immediate marriage with Baron Kindar."
Arrived on the ground, I proposed to Kindar, instead of fighting with me, to sign a paper which I had prepared, in which he implores my pardon and my mercy, acknowledges himself to be an unworthy scoundrel and liar, and solemnly swears that every accusation he brought against me in the letter you copied was a lie declares me to be an irreproachable cavalier, who has been deceived and betrayed by himself and Lady Elliot.
I am suspected of having challenged Von Kindar, because he was the lover of my wife. I look upon that, however, as an accident, and nothing more. Le beau cousin happened to be at hand when my susceptible, ardent wife looked around for a lover, and she accepted him; he was the first, but he will not be the last. I was not driven to pursue him by jealousy.
Why did you not let me wait till Kindar returned, who is so handsome, so gay, so ignorant, before whom I should never have been forced to blush, no matter how foolish I had been, and with whom I should never have been weary?" "But how did you know that the handsome Kindar wished to marry you?" said Louise, laughing.
It was in the same hand as the others, it was the writing of his rival, Von Kindar, her beau cousin. Lord Elliot folded the paper carefully and hid it in his bosom; then throwing the others into the drawer, he locked it, placing the key in the portfolio. "It is well," said he, "I have now all I need. This letter is his death-warrant." He took the light and left the room.
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