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As God hears me, I see but oh, how fearful have been the revelations that sight has made to me this night!" Poor, poor Therese! The shock of her father's treachery had proved too great for her girlish frame. She reeled and fell back insensible in his arms. Von Paradies, with simulated anguish, turned to the audience and bowed his stricken head.
I trembled for her life and reason. Having no desire to revenge myself upon her parents, I did all that I could to save her. Herr von Paradies, sustained by those who had instigated him, filled Vienna with the cry of persecution. From this time Therese remained blind, and continued to give concerts in Vienna, as she had done before.
Through the favor of the empress she has become a scientific musician, and this now must be her capital. She can teach music and give concerts." "But that will not maintain us respectably," urged Von Paradies, with increasing uneasiness. "Of course it will not maintain you as you live with your handsome pension. But you need not starve.
But as God is just, I will restore her again to sight!" Mesmer, however, was destined to be foiled. His enemies were richer and more influential than he; and Von Paradies, in mortal terror for his pension, sustained them. Von Stork obtained an order, commanding the relinquishment of Therese to her natural guarians; and her father, armed with the document, went and demanded his daughter.
"But, my dear professor," entreated Von Paradies, "have mercy on me and my family! For sixteen years we have received this income, and it had been secured to us during Therese's lifetime." "Nevertheless, it goes to the countess, if she is not blind, I tell you. "We are ruined!" exclaimed Von Paradies, in accents of despair.
His studies in his own art were principally based on the works of Corelli, Alexander Scarlatti, Handel's harpsichord and organ music, and on the sonatas of Paradies, a Neapolitan composer and teacher, who enjoyed high repute in London for many years.
"I had supposed that the human face was radiant with joy," said she, "but this one looks like incarnate woe. Are all mankind sad? Where is my mother?" Frau von Paradies was awaiting her daughter's call; she now came forward, her face beaming with love and joy. But Therese, instead of meeting her with equal fervor, shrank, and covered her face with her hands.
Of course, the hall was thronged, for in spite of the incontrovertible fact itself, and of its corroboration by the Paradies family, there were two parties in Vienna one who believed in the cure, and the other who did not.
As Von Paradies turned the book over to his daughter, she gave him a reproachful look. She opened it and read: "Emilia Galotti, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing." "And, now," continued she, "if one of the ladies present will select a passage, and another will look over me as I read, the audience can thus convince themselves that I see."
But where is Bello? Let me see my dog, the faithful companion of my days of dependence." Bello had been whining at the door, and as Frau von Paradies opened it, he bounded to his mistress, caressing her with his paws, and licking her hands. Therese bent over him, and the dog raised his eyes to hers.
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