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Come, and prove yourself to be a man!" "Ay!" interposed Arabella, "be a man, Carl, and suffer no old woman to come under your own roof and chide you as if you were her naughty boy. What business, pray, is it of this lady's, where you gather your riches? And what to the distinguished Podstadsky are the clamors of two unnatural parents, who have long since lost all claim to his respect?" "Carl!
Do you remember what I promised when you consented to let me punish Count Podstadsky after my own fashion?" "No, dear father, I do not remember ever to have been bribed to obey your commands." "Then, I will tell you my news, my glorious news. I have become a freiherr." "You were always a free man, my father; your millions have long ago made you a freiherr."
"Mercy, sire, mercy for Podstadsky and Szekuly!" cried the noble petitioners with one accord, while all knelt before the astounded emperor. He surveyed them with an angry frown. "Rise, all of you," said he. "Have you forgotten that kneeling has been abolished here?
The vision came forward, smiling, and, Podstadsky dashing away his tears, passed in one instant from the heights of saving repentance to the unfathomable depths of hopeless obduracy.
The mother trembled, and could scarcely support her limbs. She caught at a chair, and leaned upon it for a moment. Then, with faltering steps she approached her son, and raised his head with her own hands. It was a touching scene, and Count Podstadsky himself was not unmoved by its silent eloquence. His heart beat audibly, and his eyes filled with repentant tears.
Count Podstadsky looked in wonder after the emperor. "Is this accident or design? Does he suspect something, or is he only trying to induce me to work, as he does every nobleman? Ah, bah! I must see Arabella, and hear what she thinks of it!" They sat together in the little boudoir which had so often rung with their laughter, and where they had so often sneered at their titled dupes in Vienna.
I shall yet have many an intoxicating draught from its golden beaker. Die! As if we knew what came after death! But come; I pity your state of mind, and since you can no longer be happy in Vienna, we shall travel. Mark you! I say TRAVEL; but there shall be no flight " Count Podstadsky uttered a cry of wild joy, and pressed the hand she gave him to his lips. "When shall we travel? Now?"
Pending your metamorphosis, be a little more observant of the conventions and courtesies of high life!" "She has been eaves-dropping," exclaimed the Countess Podstadsky, contemptuously. "Yes," said Arabella, with perfect equanimity. "I have enjoyed the privilege of witnessing this charming scene. You, madame, have acted incomparably, but your son has not sustained you.
Moreover, he was the adorer of the most admired woman in Vienna, the lovely Countess Baillou. She, too, had disappeared. Where could they be? Was it accident, or had she responded to his love, and left a world of worshippers, to live for him alone? Finally the mystery was solved. A few days after the arrest of Podstadsky, Szekuly also had been arrested.
"Giuseppe," said his mistress, "are you still willing to follow me?" "Did I not swear to your mother, my beloved benefactress, never to abandon you, signora?" "Thanks, amico; then we leave Vienna to-night." "I heard the order forbidding Count Podstadsky the house, signora, and I made ready to depart." "Good and faithful Giuseppe! Since you are ready, nothing need detain us.
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