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Then, as if to soften the harshness of her words, she added: "Even if I were ugly, would you love me as the fakir loves his Brahma?" Ludwig continued his correspondence with the learned Herr Mercatoris. He always dictated his letters to Marie. No one in the neighborhood had yet seen his own writing.
"Katharina!" interposed the young girl, "why do you speak so?" "I say that you must leave me. Go go at once! Go down to the parsonage, and ask Herr Mercatoris to give you shelter. Tell him to clothe you in rags; and when you hear the tramp of horses, hide yourself, and don't venture from your concealment until they are gone. I, too, am going away from here."
After an elementary school education in his native town he entered Glasgow University at the age of twelve, in accordance with the custom of those days which permitted attendance at a University at a very early age. The Matriculation Album of Glasgow University contains the following entry: 1756, Jacobus McGill, filius natu maximus Jacobi mercatoris Glasguensis.
Nine years later, his younger brother Andrew entered the University, as indicated by the following record in the Matriculation Album: 1765, Andreas McGill, filius natu quintus Jacobi mercatoris Glasguensis.
At last, one day late in the autumn, Count Vavel received from his correspondent, Herr Mercatoris, the information that the dragoon regiment was going to change its quarters, and that the departure from Fertöszeg would be celebrated by various amusements, among them a regatta with colored lanterns on the lake and magnificent fireworks on the shore.
Baroness Katinka understood perfectly how to conduct the conversation during the repast an art which was not appreciated by her right-hand neighbor, Herr Mercatoris. The learned gentleman had bad teeth, in consequence of which eating was a sort of penitential performance that left him no time for discourse.
One day Herr Mercatoris sent to the castle a brochure on which he had proudly written, "With the compliments of the author." The booklet was written in Latin, and was an account of the natural wonder which is, to this day, reckoned among the numerous memorable peculiarities of Lake Neusiedl, a human being that lived in the water and ate live fishes.
Who would recognize them here if they went about in the ordinary manner? The story of the veil will spread farther and farther, and will ultimately betray them to the pursuing husband." By this time the reverend Herr Mercatoris had got the better of his bad teeth, and was now ready to join the conversation.
Pray introduce the other gentlemen." The vice-palatine proceeded to obey this request. "This is the Rev. Herr Tobias Mercatoris, our parish clergyman. He has a beautiful speech prepared to receive your ladyship; but he can't repeat it here, as it begins, 'Here in the grateful shadow of these green trees." "Oh, well, your reverence, instead of the speech, I will listen to your sermons on Sundays.
He had two sources for acquiring information on this subject Herr Mercatoris in Fertöszeg, and the young attorney, who was now living in Pest. The count corresponded with both gentlemen, personally he had never spoken to the pastor, and but once to his attorney, and from their letters learned what was going on in that portion of the world in the vicinity of the Nameless Castle.
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