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Updated: May 18, 2025
Without love she had consented to become Podstadsky's mistress, and so became the partner of his guilt. Together they had planned their bold schemes of fraud, and, oh, how successful they had been until this last misfortune! At all events, her connection with Podstadsky was at an end. The pillory had liberated her, and now now she would lead a blameless life. No more fraud no more theft.
Then suddenly springing forward, as if they feared she might escape through the secret opening in the wall, they grasped her with their powerful hands, and she was once more a prisoner. "The emperor can no longer defend his beautiful countess," said the one who seemed to direct the others. "We have caught her in the act of robbing Count Podstadsky's creditors.
But she was ordered to be present at Podstadsky's exposition in the pillory, and then to leave Vienna forever. The people read these fearful tidings in dumb amazement and vague apprehension of evil to themselves. Never had they so completely realized the new order of things as at this moment.
She had been charged with being a party to Podstadsky's fraud, but he, as well as Szekuly, had loudly declared her innocence. Both had avowed themselves to be her lovers, and it was ascertained that her household had been maintained at Podstadsky'a cost. As his mistress, she had received many of his bank-notes, but he protested that she knew nothing of his forgeries.
What then was his delight when, a few moments ago, he had learned from her own lips that she was a widow, and had come to spend a season in Vienna! The consequence of this recital was that Podstadsky's young acquaintances were clamorous for presentation to la contessa.
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