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Updated: May 6, 2025
Uncle was offended too, turned on his heel and went into the smoking-room. Maurits came up to her and said with a hard, hard voice: "You are ruining everything, Anne-Marie. Must you look like that when Uncle wishes to dance with you? If you could know what he said to me yesterday about you! You must do something too, Anne-Marie. Do you think it is right to leave everything to me?"
Happiness Can she be happy with Maurits? She has not looked happy this morning. Oh yes, certainly she has. She wept with joy. While he is standing there Maurits suddenly says to Anne-Marie: "What a dunce I am! I am quite forgetting to speak to Uncle about father's shares." "I think it would be best if you did not," Downie answers. "Perhaps it is not right." "Nonsense, Anne-Marie.
No one can take any liberties with Maurits. However, Anne-Marie is very glad that this pleasant old lady has come. She and the ironmaster have such a merry way of joking with one another. But when they have said good-night and Anne-Marie has come into her little room, something too tiresome and provoking happens.
Every year you would come to me and beg for money. You and I would both weary of that." "But, uncle, I am a man of honor. I have engaged myself." "Listen, Maurits! Which is better? For her to go and wait for you for ten years, and then find that you will not marry her, or for you to break it off now? No, be decided, get up, take the chaise and go home before she wakes.
He only helped her down from the carriage, and took her shawl and hat like a footman, while Maurits lifted his hat from his white brow and said: "Thank you, my children!"
Now he calls her as the man to whom she has promised herself. She feels she must obey. And she lets go of Uncle Theodore so suddenly that he cannot stop her, but she cannot go to Maurits; so she slides down to the floor and there she remains sitting and sobs. "Go home alone in your chaise, Maurits," says Uncle Theodore sharply.
It is only pure and simple justice after such an insult." As he finishes this speech, he puts his big hands about her head and bends it back so that he can kiss her forehead. "Give up this abandoned creature!" he repeats. But now Maurits begins to understand also. He sees the light in Uncle Theodore's eyes and how one smile after the other dances over his lips. "Come, Anne-Marie!" She starts.
He looks quite furious, she thinks, and she almost calls to Maurits to take care. But it is too late, for Uncle Theodore has seized Maurits, crushed his ruffle, and is shaking him till he twists like an eel. Then he slings him from him with such force that Maurits staggers backwards any! would have fallen if he had not found support in a tree trunk. And there Maurits stands and gasps "What?"
Poor Maurits! it seems that his uncle is angry with him on her account. He asks if Maurits does not know that his uncle is a bachelor when he brings his betrothed here without bringing her mother with him. Her mother! Downie is offended in Maurits's behalf. It was her mother who had excused herself and said that she could not leave the bakery.
If Maurits had not had his rich uncle, it could never have come to anything; for he was only a student, and had nothing to marry on. But if they now could win his uncle over their way was clear. I see them so plainly as they drive along the road. She looks a little unhappy as she listens to his wisdom. But she is content in her thoughts! How sensible Maurits is!
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