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This title will never enable us to appear at court, and the noble cavaliers will never think of marrying the daughter of a tailor, though many would seek to do so if our father would give up his needlework, buy a country seat, and live, as rich and distinguished men do, upon his estate." "Child, child, what are you saying?" cried Mother Pricker, clasping her hands with anguish.
With a cry of delight she hurried to her husband, to embrace and congratulate him on his appointment. Pricker waved her proudly back. "Why do you congratulate me?" he said. "The house of Hohenzollern has only done justice to my house, that is all.
Frank Talbot answered for him, that he was a yeoman pricker, and the Earl permitted the paper to be carried to Mary, watching her carefully as she read it, when Antony had presented it on one knee. "Poor woman!" she said, "it is a piteous case. Master Beatoun, hast thou my purse?
Pricker paid no attention to him, but looking at the pictures which hung on the wall, he bowed respectfully before one of them. "Look!" he said, pointing to one of the portraits, "that is my great-great-grandfather. He was a German, and the best and ablest of men. With him began the connection between the houses of Hohenzollern and Pricker.
Madame Pricker uttered a cry of joy, and forgetting all other considerations, hastened to the counting-room of her husband, to make known to him the important information. Baron Pollnitz watched her till the door closed, then turned to Anna, who still leaned immovable in the window. "Anna, dearest Anna," whispered he tenderly, "at last we are alone!
"But why does our father attach such importance to this small affair?" said Anna, with a lofty shrug of her shoulders. Mother Pricker looked at her with astonishment. "You call this a small affair, which concerns not only the honor of your father, but that of your whole family; which affects the position and calling enjoyed by the Pricker family for a hundred years?
Were they not, by special management of a yeoman pricker who had recognised in Stephen a kindred spirit, and had a strong admiration for Mistress Randall, placed where there was the best possible view of hunters, horses, and hounds, lords and ladies, King and ambassadors, in their gorgeous hunting trim?
"That is true," said the sorrowful Pricker; he approached and pointed through the window to the house opposite. "Once all those carriages stood before my door; once I dressed all those noble people; a wink would be sufficient to recall them. Would I be untrue to the customs of my fathers, would I employ French workmen, all those carriages would be arrayed before my door.
In a few moments Madame Pricker announced the rich Mademoiselle Orguelin and her future husband. Pricker advanced to meet them with calm composure, but there was tumultuous joy in his heart. "You will be surprised, my dear Pricker, that we did not send for you, but we should have lost time by that, and our affairs demand the greatest haste." Pricker bowed proudly.
Madame Pricker stepped toward him, and greeted him with the most profound reverence, calling him master of ceremonies and master of the bed-chamber. "Not so," said Pollnitz; "why so much reverence and so many titles? I am indeed master of ceremonies, but without the title.
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