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Papa will have it before the transfer is signed. The letter ended with an adieu, a petition for an answer, and 'yours affectionately. On the day of its date, a Viennese newspaper lying on the Salzburg Hotel table chronicled Ottilia's marriage with Prince Hermann. I turned on Temple to walk him off his legs if I could.
I ran up the steps to salute them, and had Ottilia's hand in mine. 'Prince Ernest has arrived? 'My father came yesterday evening. 'Do you leave to-day? 'I cannot tell; he will decide. It seemed a good omen, until I scanned Janet's sombre face. 'You will not see us out for the rest of the day, Harry, said she. 'That is your arrangement? 'It is. 'Your own? 'Mine, if you like.
Would such denial have appeared without Ottilia's sanction? My father proved that I was harnessed to him; there was no stopping, no time for grieving. Pace was his specific. He dragged me the round of the voters; he gave dinners at the inn of true Liberals, and ate of them contentedly; he delivered speeches incessantly.
I had sight of that paper some time afterwards. Richmond was in the field again, it stated, with mock flourishes. But that was not the worst. My grandfather's name was down there, and mine, and Princess Ottilia's.
At an hotel in Vienna, upon the close of the aristocratic season there, he renewed an acquaintance with a Russian lady, Countess Kornikoff, and he and I parted. She disliked the Margravine of Rippau, who was in Vienna, and did not recognize us. I heard that it was the Margravine who had despatched Prince Hermann to England as soon as she discovered Ottilia's flight thither.
Ottilia's condescension had done her no good. 'Turn to the right, that's your path; on. She seemed to speak in this style, much as she made her touch of the reins understood by her ponies. 'I 'll take every care of the princess, she said. Her conceit was unbounded. I revelled in contemptuous laughter at her assumption of the post of leader with Ottilia.
Whether it amused him to see me take my seat in the House of Commons, and hear a debate in a foreign language, I cannot say; but the only pleasure of which I was conscious at that period lay in the thought that he or his father, Baron vom Hof, might some day relate the circumstance at Prince Ernest's table, and fix in Ottilia's mind the recognition of my having tried to perform my part of the contract.
The summons was distasteful, for I had settled into harness under my scientific superiors, and had proved to my messmates that I was neither morose nor over-conceited. Captain Martinitz persuaded me to return, and besides, there lay between the lines of Ottilia's letter a signification of welcome things better guessed at than known. Was I not bound to do her bidding?
I read a paragraph in which Ottilia's name and titles were set down; then followed mine and my wealthy heirship, and woe was me in the perusing of it! a roundabout vindication of me as one not likely to be ranked as the first of English commoners who had gained the hand of an hereditary foreign princess, though it was undoubtedly in the light of a commoner that I was most open to the congratulations of my countrymen upon my unparalleled felicity.
Walking on that very Urrisbeg Mountain under whose shadow I heard Ottilia's name, Mackay, the learned author of the "Flora Patlandica," discovered the Mediterranean heath, such a flower as I have often plucked on the sides of Vesuvius, and as Proserpine, no doubt, amused herself in gathering as she strayed in the fields of Enna.
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