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Updated: June 15, 2025
"If you think," said a woman's voice, and broke on "think" "if you think I'm going to endure a repetition of what happened two years ago, you're mistaken. Never again shall she enter this house! Oh, you pig, you wretch! Klara has told me; she saw you through the keyhole with your arm round her waist. And I know myself, scarcely a note was struck in the hour.
"Father mightn't like it. I'd have to ask him." "D n your father!" "And that fool, Leopold, is so insanely jealous." "D n him too," said the young man quietly. Whereupon he took the morocco case out of Klara's hand, shut it with a snap and put it back into his pocket. "What are you doing?" cried Klara in a fright. "As you see, pretty one, I am putting the bracelet away for future use."
He paused, and from the pocket of his shabby trousers he half drew out a long, sheathed hunting-knife, and then quickly hid it again from her sight. Klara smothered a desperate cry of terror. Leopold now turned his back on her; he went up to the table and seizing a carafe of water, he poured himself out a huge mugful and drank it down at a draught.
She elbowed him aside and went to the counter to serve a customer who had just arrived, and more than a quarter of an hour went by before Leopold had the chance of another word with her. "You might have a kind word for me to-night, Klara," he said ruefully, as soon as a brief lull in business enabled him to approach the girl. "Why specially to-night?" she asked indifferently.
The water rustled and roiled as if all the birds of paradise that the world contained had taken flight. Swish! It was perfectly quiet again. The mer-village was as deserted as a graveyard. “‘Well, if they don’t want me, they shan’t get me, Klara said. And she walked on twice as proud.’ “By this time she was getting closer and closer to the moon. The nearer she came the bigger it grew.
"Three for a wedding," said Andor with a forced laugh, trying to break the spell which much against his will seemed to have been suddenly cast over his happy spirits. "One for sorrow, more like," retorted Klara. "No, no, come!" he rejoined; "you must not look at it like that. There is always some happiness to be got out of married life.
"It's just a whim of mine, Klara," urged Leopold, now still speaking quietly almost under his breath but there was an ominous tremor in his voice and sudden sharp gleams in his eyes which the girl had already noted and which caused the blood to rush back to her heart, leaving her cheeks pale and her lips trembling. "Nonsense!" she contrived to say, with an indifferent shrug of the shoulders.
Never mind, my little Andor," she added, turning her expressive dark eyes with a knowing look upon the young man; "there is more fish in the Maros than has come out of it. And I thought that you would prefer to get the truth direct from our pretty Elsa!" "I think you did quite right, Klara," said Andor indifferently.
After the officers went away Klara locked the front door after them and remained practically shut up in the house, only going in the evening as far as the post, but refusing to speak to anyone and going past with head erect and a proud, careless air which deceived no one. "She'll sing her tune in a minor key by and by, when Ignácz Goldstein comes home," said the gossips complacently.
“‘I’m sorry,’ Klara whispered to herself. ‘I’ll never do so again.’ “She had a feeling that as long as she said those magic words, everything would go well with her. “Extending out from the door was the Wake of Gold. Klara bounded through the opening and ran. She turned back after a few moments and there was the old lady with her cat and her broomstick standing in the doorway.
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