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Updated: June 23, 2025
There, without waiting the ceremony of looking for the key, he wrenched the chest open, pulling out every article which it contained, opening every bundle, and scattering everything on the floor, telling Meeta that, if he did not find the purse, she should either tell him where it was or suffer his severest vengeance.
"'She has found something strange, said Jacques; 'I hope nothing that will hurt her. And down he came tumbling, in his own active way, straight to his little sister, being quickly followed by Meeta. "Margot was holding up what she had found, crying: "'Pretty, pretty, pretty! for it was quite bright and sparkling in the sun. "'It is a purse! said Jacques.
For many days Franz Rainer had called Meeta daughter, as though he found pleasure in recalling the tie between them. "With one who tells me Ernest has arrived, and will see you soon," said Meeta. "It is Ernest himself. I knew his voice: Ernest, my son!" And the old man's tones were loud and strong, as Meeta had heard them for days.
For a moment he gazed upon her as though spell-bound, then dropping his face into his clasped hands, sat actually shivering before her. It was plain that Ernest had not lightly estimated his obligations to her. If he had sinned against them he had not despised them, and this conviction gave new strength to Meeta. She rose for the hour superior to every selfish emotion.
Margot, when duly admonished on any point, could be prudent, but Meeta could not; yet Meeta was so merry, so obliging, and so good-humoured, that everyone in the cottage soon learned to love her; though some of them, and especially Monique, saw very clearly that there was much to be done to improve her and render her a steady character.
A dream it had indeed been to him; a shadow of the night; to Meeta a dark cloud, in whose gloom she was henceforth to walk for ever. Hours of conversation could not so fully have revealed the truth to Meeta as those simple words: "Sophie my Sophie!" uttered by Ernest in such a tone of heart-worship.
I suppose neighbour Monique keeps them in her blue cupboard near the kitchen-stove? a very good and a very safe place, no doubt, for them. "'Oh, no, cried Meeta, 'she has them in her chest above stairs, and my uncle keeps the key himself, and carries it about with him; but what am I doing here, lingering?
Fairchild then whispered either the name of Meeta or Margot to Henry; at any rate, he whispered a name beginning with an "M," and Henry looked not a little set up in having been thus chosen as his father's confidant. When every one of the children were satisfied, they placed the cup and the fragments in the basket, and then they all settled themselves in readiness for the rest of the story.
They were to be married at the parsonage, in the presence of a few witnesses only, and were immediately to set out on an excursion which would occupy several weeks. They had urged Meeta to accompany them, but she had declined. "But she cannot refuse to stand up with me do you think she can?" said Sophie to her sister, as she prepared to accompany Ernest to Carl Werner's.
I thought it had been known only to this family and me. "'I am the guilty person, said Meeta, coming forward; 'I will not throw suspicion on others by hiding my fault; and she then repeated her conversation with Heister Kamp, but she could give no account of how the secret had passed on to the gipsies.
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