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Updated: June 10, 2025
Leberecht stood, bent over, applying his ear to the keyhole, listening to every word. Oh, Trude! if you could only have seen the traitor, glued to the door, with open eyes and mouth! Could you have seen the eavesdropper rubbing his hands together, grinning, and listening in breathless suspense!
"I do not wish, in the least, to see her," said her mother; "she can do what she likes until then." "I will tell Marie, and she will rejoice," cried Trude. "Tell her, from her father, that it is very agreeable to him not to see her pale, wretched-looking face again till morning. Now, my son, pay attention, and you, Trude, do not presume to interrupt us again. Leberecht, play out my ace of hearts."
"Now," cried he, triumphantly, "I have forced you to give me satisfaction!" The police swung themselves from their saddles, and Leberecht quickly dismounted. They clinched Moritz by the feet and hands. It was a desperate struggle, and Marie gazed at them with folded hands, praying without words. They seized him and held him fast with manacles. A shriek, and Marie sank fainting.
"She is gone!" shrieked the mother, rushing into the room. "The room is empty," cried Ebenstreit. "Marie is not there. Tell us, Leberecht, what you know about it." "I will, if we can agree about the pay the old woman bothers me, and beg the young gentleman to go into the next room with me."
He shoved his winnings into a leather bag, which he always carried with him, and gave Leberecht the order to roll away his chair, when the servant, with a solemn bow, stepped closely to him, and begged the general to listen to him a moment. "Well, what have you to say?" he asked.
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