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"Thought of you, Klara?" he said quietly, even as he felt, more than saw, that Elsa too had drawn back a little a step or two further away from Klara, but a step or two also further away from him.
Klara seemed to be growing steadily worse and worse. And, indeed, lately, she had added to her naughtiness by threatening to run away. “One night, it happened, Klara had been so bad that her mother had put her to bed early.
Ignácz Goldstein had gone into the next room. Klara was busy tidying up the place; Leopold approached her with well-feigned contrition and humility. "I am sorry, Klara," he said. "I seemed to have had the knack to-night of constantly annoying you. So I'd best begone now, perhaps." "I bear no malice, Leo," she said quietly. "I thought I'd come back at about nine o'clock," he continued.
So, after a little while, when she felt that if she spoke her voice would be quite steady, she said gently: "It is not all true, is it, Andor?" She could not she would not believe it all true not in the way that Klara had put it before her, with all its horrible details of callousness and cowardice.
Just as the little procession halted for a moment before entering the white washed school-house, Erös Béla, the bridegroom and hero of the hour, appeared, coming from the opposite direction, and with Klara Goldstein, the Jewess, upon his arm.
"It seems to me," he continued, slowly and deliberately, "that there never was a woman before quite so desperately in need of a friend as you are, eh, Klara?" "I have no friend," she murmured. "A friend, I mean, who would go and do your errand for you over at the castle, what? and warn his young and noble lordship not to show his aristocratic face in Marosfalva to-night."
Elsa and Andor had both remained quite still after Klara left them; yet Elsa like all simple creatures who feel acutely was longing to run and let the far horizon, the distant unknown land, wrap and enfold her while she thought things out for herself, for indeed this real world the world of men and women, of passions and hatred and love was nothing but a huge and cruel puzzle.
"Curse him!" she muttered savagely; "I'll never marry him after this." "Oh, yes, you will," he retorted, with a light laugh; "you'll like him all the better presently for these outbursts of jealousy. A woman often gets fondest of the man she fears the most. But in the meanwhile you are at your wits' ends, eh, my pretty Klara? You can't think of any way out of your present difficulty, what?
Taking an opportunity when her father was absorbed in his game of tarok, she went into the next room and presently returned with a key in her hand, which she surreptitiously gave to my lord. "Splendid!" exclaimed the young man gaily. "Klara, you are a gem, and after supper you shall just ask me for anything you have a fancy for, and I'll give it to you. Now I'd better go. Good-bye, little one.
"Well!" she said, after a little more hesitation, "it's only that he will go hanging about at the Goldsteins' all the time." "Oh! it's Klara, is it?" "I can't bear that girl," said Elsa, with sudden vehemence. He looked at her keenly. "You are jealous, Elsa," he said. "Is it because you love Béla?" "I don't like his hanging round Klara," she replied evasively.
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