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But I do not reproach the Princess Ludovicka Hollandine with having inflicted this wound. On the contrary, I speak it aloud, and may my speech penetrate to her ears as a parting salutation: Blessed be the Princess Ludovicka Hollandine of the Palatinate, and may God send her the happiness she deserves so richly by her beauty, intellect, and goodness of heart!"
Frederick, how long ere you will no longer wish that I were yours; how long ere all the oaths of your heart will be forgotten and forever hushed? I have heard it from all women they all say that the love of men is perishable; that, like a flash of lightning, it shines forth with vivid blaze, then vanishes away." "And they have all deceived you or been deceived themselves, Ludovicka.
Princess Ludovicka Hollandine, standing in the middle of the apartment, had watched this singular demeanour on the part of the mysterious intruder with growing astonishment. She had first held out her arms to greet the expected, the longed-for, to press him to her beating heart, but, finding that he came not to embrace her, she had slowly dropped her arms again.
"You would palliate your unfaithfulness, represent your fickleness of mind as magnanimity! But I hear only one thing in your words you give me up, you renounce your love?" "Yes!" he cried with a loud scream of pain "yes, I renounce my love!" "Vengeance upon you for it!" cried she, in flaming wrath. "I, Ludovicka Hollandine, cry vengeance upon you, for you break my heart!"
But if you are good and docile, and go back quietly and prettily to the sleeping room, and creep into your little bed, then I promise you to come soon." "Well, then, I will go," sighed the child, and dropped her little head like a withered flower. "Yes, I will be good, that you may love me. But please come soon, Aunt Ludovicka, come soon."
"Your highness, the Princess Ludovicka Hollandine has voluntarily forsaken her mother and her family, and at first they knew not whither she had gone." "And do they know now?"
The love of men never expires, unless forcibly extinguished by women. Be trustful, my Ludovicka, trustful, and pious, and let love, holy and still, ardent and glowing, penetrate your heart, just as I do, without trembling, without hesitancy, and without the fear of men." "You love me, then, love me truly?" asked Ludovicka, tenderly clinging to him.
At this moment the whistle rang forth for the second time, its tones following one another in quick succession. "It is he it is my beloved," murmured Ludovicka, and with a happy smile she listened out into the night. The Princess had not long to wait. The groaning and creaking of the rope ladder already betrayed the presence of its burden.
"I have counted upon your love and your energy, Princess, and therefore have already drawn up a stated plan. Will you hear it?" "Not merely hear, but execute it, too, if it is at all practicable," cried Ludovicka, while she remained standing in the center of the room, and turned her large, flaming eyes upon the count, who had likewise arisen and advanced smilingly toward her.
"When I see you again, Princess, I shall accompany you to the altar, and must witness the transformation of the Princess Ludovicka into an Electoral Princess of Brandenburg, and in my heart will be prayers, but also tears! Farewell!" He sprang up, crossed the room with light, quick steps, unbolted the door, and vanished behind the curtain.
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