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You should go down upon your bended knees both to that gentleman and me." A little before noon, Otto, by a triumph of manoeuvring, effected his escape. He was quit in this way of the ponderous gratitude of Mr. Killian, and of the confidential gratitude of poor Ottilia; but of Fritz he was not quit so readily.
"I have presumed upon my strength. If you would show me to a bed, I should be grateful." "Ottilia, a candle!" said the old man. "Indeed sir, you look paley. A little cordial water? No? Then follow me, I beseech you, and I will bring you to the stranger's bed.
She had been ill on the steamer. And, moreover, it was Sunday. Sunday? That was it! Well, they would go for a walk. They had a lot to talk about. Of course, they had a lot to say to each other. But Ottilia was not to come with them! They went out together, arm in arm.
I cease to express . . . It is like my walking, done half for pride, I think. Baroness, lower me, and let me rest. The baroness laid her gently on the dry brown pine-sheddings, and blew a whistle that hung at her girdle, by which old Schwartzy kept out of sight to encourage the princess's delusion of pride in her walking, was summoned. Ottilia had fainted.
They conversed, apparently, like equal minds. On material points, Janet unhesitatingly led. It was she who brought the walk to a close. 'Now, Harry, you had better go and have a little sleep. I should like to speak to you early. Ottilia immediately put her hand out to me. I begged permission to see her to her door.
Mournfulness dropped on me like a cloud in thinking of the bright little princess of my boyhood, and the Ottilia of to-day, faithful to her early passion for our sea-heroes and my country, though it had grievously entrapped her. And into what hands! Not into hands which could cast one ray of honour on a devoted head.
Could I deny that I owed him gratitude for the things I cherished most? for my acquaintance with Ottilia? for his services in Germany? for the prospect of my elevation in England? I could not; and I tried hard to be recklessly grateful. As to money, he reiterated that he could put his hand on it to satisfy the squire on the day of accounts: for the present, we must borrow.
From this I learnt that Ottilia and Janet corresponded. Upon what topics? to what degree of intimacy? Janet now confessed to me that their intimacy had never known reserve. The princess had divined her attachment for Harry Richmond when their acquaintance was commenced in the island, and knew at the present moment that I had travelled round to the recognition of Janet's worth.
Ottilia! She disengaged her arms tenderly. 'I have known it by my knowledge of myself, she said, breathing with her lips dissevered. 'My weakness has come upon me. Yes, I love you. It is spoken. It is too true. Is it a fate that brings us together when I have just lost my little remaining strength all power? You hear me! I pretend to wisdom, and talk of fate!
Hermann's presence gave light, fire, and colour to the scene in which my destiny had been wavering from hand to hand without much more than amusedly interesting me, for I was sure that I had lost Ottilia; I knew that too well, and worse could not happen.
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