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"Yes, I know that," replied Hartmut, quite undisturbed, "so I got my breakfast some time ago from the housekeeper. You can't starve me, Aunt Regine. I stand on too good a footing with your people." "And so you think you can do as you please and go unpunished," cried the irate lady.
And with this declaration and with a decisiveness in which nothing was lacking, Fräulein Antonie von Schönau tossed her head back, and walked out of the room leaving her father and aunt in anything but an enviable state. Herr von Schönau turned to his sister-in-law and said in a subdued but angry tone: "Your son has been going ahead beautifully, Regine.
"I would advise him not to be anything else; who lives with me must obey orders," cried Frau von Eschenhagen, as she struck an emphatic blow upon the table, which made her brother wince. "A man is bound to obey orders under your government," he answered. "At the same time I would advise you, dear Regine, to do something more for the intellectual development of your son.
"So that is what you call taking by surprise?" cried the head forester, irritated. "Over five years ago I asked you to marry me, then last year a second time, and now for the third time, so you have had plenty of time to consider the matter. Yes, or no? If you send me away this time I'll never come again, understand that!" Regine did not answer, but it was not indecision which made her hesitate.
At the very first intimation of a disgraceful word or action, Regine would go to her brother-in-law and demand that he should no longer permit his daughter to associate with such an one; then she would call her son as witness, and the incubus would be expelled at once and forever from their presence.
He would have drawn his daughter into his arms, but Regine stepped before him and said in a husky voice: "Be composed, Toni, you will have a fearful blow from your false lover; you will despise him and his deceptions from your very soul."
"He's an adventurer. What else could you expect?" said the ambassador in his curtest tone. "He inherited her temperament, and his life with her has developed the dormant tendency. Since his mother's death, three years ago, I have heard nothing of him." "And why did you keep all this from me?" said Regine, reprovingly. "I wanted to spare you all I could.
He had not seen Regine since the previous winter. As he entered the room he said in his wonted hearty manner: "Here I am. I didn't think it worth while being announced to my sister-in-law, although she does avoid my house with contempt. Regine reached out her hand to him.
But his newly acquired firmness had not been fleeting, though he tried every argument to persuade his mother to return to Burgsdorf and to think kindly of his future wife but all to no purpose. Regine had no thought of yielding an inch, and now, mother and son had not seen one another for many months. There had been no formal betrothal to Marietta.
"To be lost in the forest and have to wade through a brook and then finally be forced to call to her aid a stray huntsman, are things that I do not care to have repeated. Adelheid saw that as clearly as I, and will not go unattended for the future." "Ah, she's an excellent, sensible wife, a healthy nature through and through, with a proper aversion for adventure and romance," said Regine warmly.
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