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Then, with an air of manly resolution the young man turned to the father. "And I'll do more," he said. "You and Anna shall not be parted. I'll buy the old estate of Lichtenstahl and you shall be its master, as you ought to be, as long as your life lasts. You'll let us be your guests, perhaps, and there we'll all be happy. Eh?" "I beg you to consider the happiness of our children," Mrs.
I know my Almanach de Gotha all the titles." Turning, now, to Kreutzer, she beamed upon him with a cordial smile which plainly took no count of all the frowns which, in the past few minutes, she had sent in his direction. "But Lichtenstahl is a magnificent estate. How does it happen that you " "The estate was lost to me, Madame, through the folly of my ancestors; but their pride I have inherited.
"Madame," he went on, not patronizingly but with a growing consciousness of his own impregnable position which impressed even the self-seeking woman he addressed, "to you I am only Kreutzer, the poor flute-player; but in my native country I am more Count Otto Von Lichtenstahl." "Good heavens!" she cried. "The man is mad!" "No, Madame. I have been unfortunate.
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