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Updated: June 12, 2025
Clementina was outside in the storm; Wogan was within the house, and the lights of the guard were already near. "I go by the way I came," said he; "I have time;" and he ran quickly up the stairs. In the room he found the Princess-mother weeping silently, and again, as he saw this weak elderly woman left alone to her fears and forebodings, remorse took hold on him.
For within the room the magistrate, a kindly citizen of Innspruck who had no liking for this addition to his duties, stood gazing at the Princess-mother with a respectful pity. It was the sight of her tear-stained face which had checked his words. For two days Clementina had kept her bed, and the mother's tears alarmed him. "Her Highness, your daughter, suffers so much?" said he.
The Princess-mother took the snuff-box reluctantly and turned it over and over. She was silent. Clementina answered for her. "I am ready," she said, and she pointed to a tiny bundle on a chair in which a few clothes were wrapped. "My jewels are packed in the bundle, but I can leave them behind me if needs be." Wogan lifted up the bundle and laughed.
He set his knee upon the window-ledge, climbed out, and drew the window to behind him. The Princess-mother waited in the room with her hand upon her heart. She waited, it seemed to her, for an eternity. Then she heard the sound of a heavy fall, and the clang of a musket against the wall of the villa. But she heard no cry. She ran to the window and looked out.
"But at this moment," continued Wogan, "there very properly appears the fairy godmother in the person of a romantical maiden aunt." "Oh!" said Clementina, "I have a romantical maiden aunt." "Yes," said Wogan, and turning with a bow to the Princess-mother; "your Highness." "I?" she exclaimed, starting up in her chair.
"Damn!" she said, hobbling across the room to the corner, whither her shoe had fallen. "There, there, old lady; don't hold your hands to your ears as though a clean oath would poison them!" The Princess-mother fell back in her chair. "Does she speak to me?" she asked helplessly. "Yes," said Wogan; and turning to Jenny, "This is the kind-hearted aunt."
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