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I myself felt the sway of something, while observing Ottilia's rapt pleasure in her talk and her laughter, with those funny familiar frowns and current dimples twisting and melting away like a play of shadows on the eddies of the brook. 'I 'm glad to be with her, Janet said of Ottilia. It was just in that manner she spoke in Ottilia's presence.
Ottilia's cloud-pale windows were the sole greeting I had from her on my departure early next morning, far wretcheder than if I had encountered a misfortune. It was impossible for me to deny that my father had shielded the princess: she would never have run for a menace.
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.
There came to me a little note on foreign paper, unaddressed, an enclosure forwarded by Janet, and containing merely one scrap from the playful XENIEN of Ottilia's favourite brotherly poets, of untranslatable flavour: Who shuns true friends flies fortune in the concrete: Would he see what he aims at? let him ask his heels. It filled me with a breath of old German peace.
Protesting that I was unable to read riddles, though the heat of the one in hand made my frame glow, I entreated to have explicit words. He might be in Ottilia's confidence, probing me why not? Any question he chose to put to me, I said, I was ready to answer. 'But it's the questioner who unmasks, said he. 'Are we masked, Herr Professor? I was not aware of it. 'Look within, and avoid lying.
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.
I could have told him, that wishing was a good thing, excess of tobacco a bad, moderation in speech one of the outward evidences of wisdom; but Ottilia's master in the Humanities exacted civility from me. 'Indeed, I said, 'I have few thoughts to communicate at present, Herr Professor. My German will fail me as soon as I quit common ground. I love my country, and I do not reckon it as perfect.
I caught myself regretting my coldness of that period; for which regrets I could have swung the scourge upon my miserable flesh. Ottilia's features seemed dying out of my mind. 'Poor darling Harry! Julia sighed.
Ottilia's face coloured like the cyclamen at her feet. 'You! she said. 'I might ask, is it you, princess? 'Some wonder has been worked, you see. 'I thank heaven. 'You had a part in it. 'The poorest possible. 'Yet I shall presume to call you Doctor Oceanus, 'Will you repeat his medicine? The yacht awaits you always. 'When I am well I study. Do not you? 'I have never studied in my life.
In Kalbsbraten, as in every other German town, there are a vast number of literary characters, of whom our young friend quickly became the chief. They set up a literary journal, which appeared once a week, upon light-blue or primrose paper, and which, in compliment to the lovely Ottilia's maternal name, was called the Kartoffelnkranz.
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