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Updated: June 8, 2025
When, after a few minutes, Caroline Orguelin and the count were alone in the carriage, she turned to him with a mocking smile, and remarked: "The wedding is, then, to take place the day after to-morrow." "Yes, my dearest Caroline, and on that day I will be the happiest of men."
Amelia did not reply; she stepped to the table and wrote a few lines, which she handed to Pollnitz. "Take this," said she, almost contemptuously; "it is a draft upon my banker, Orguelin. I thank you for allowing your services to be paid for; it relieves me from all call to gratitude. Serve me faithfully in future, and you shall ever find my hand open and my purse full.
At this festival the future Countess Rhedern was to appear for the last time in the circle of her old friends, and then to take leave of them forever; for as a matter of course the Countess Rhedern would have to form new friendships and seek other society than that to which she had been accustomed as Mademoiselle Orguelin.
I will be married quietly; afterwards the count may give a fete in honor of our marriage, which you, my father, can return." As usual, M. Orguelin submitted to his daughter's will, and it was determined that a quiet wedding should take place in a few days, to be followed on a later day by a magnificent fete in the house of the father-in-law.
The king looked thoughtfully before him, then raised his eyes to his mother with a mocking smile. "Mother, you know I can refuse you nothing; and as you wish it, Mademoiselle Orguelin, when she is married, shall be received at my court as a newly baked countess. But petition for petition, favor for favor.
These ladies are beautiful, of good birth, young and amiable, but one thing is wanting to make them perfect. Mademoiselle Orguelin is neither beautiful nor of good birth, neither young nor amiable, but she has the one thing which those fairies lack, and for the sake of this one thing I am forced to marry her."
You speak of your bride, but Mademoiselle Orguelin has not yet accepted you, and whether she will or not, you say, depends on me."
Moreover, the queen-mother has already promised me an invitation for my wife, and requested me to present her to the entire court on this occasion." "And is it impossible to have the wedding any sooner?" asked Caroline, impatiently. "Quite impossible," said M. Orguelin. "And why impossible?" said the count. "Could we not have the wedding at an early day, and the festival later?
"Ah, Orguelin is a brave man, and has brought much gold into Prussia by his fabrics," said the king, who was evidently becoming more yielding. "It would be a great pity if this gold should be lost to Prussia," said the queen. "What do you mean, madame?"
I give way, therefore; Count Rhedern has my consent to marry the Orguelin." "But even THAT is not sufficient," said the queen; "there is yet another condition, without the filling of which this proud millionnaire refuses to give her hand to the duke." "Ah, look you, the little bourgeoise makes conditions before she will wed a count."
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