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Updated: June 20, 2025
It was really quite interesting to watch the boat getting smaller and smaller; finally I opened the window, even looked through my field-glasses. As it was not yet quite light, I could not see them very clearly, but the red hat was still discernible. Then the boat disappeared behind an island. I dressed and went down. The children were all still in bed, but the wife, Regine, was up.
"Well, that's true enough, and the marriage portion she brought you is not to be despised," assented Regine, quite unmoved by his sharp tones. "Have you presented your wife at Court yet?" "Yes, two weeks ago, at the summer Capitol. My father-in-law's death prevented my doing so before. But this winter we must keep open house, as my position demands it.
But let's not talk of that time so long gone by. I never have borne any grudge against you, you know that; we have always been friends in spite of everything, and if you want my assistance or advice now here I am." She held out her hand and he placed his own in it. "I know it, Regine, but in this matter I can only help and advise myself. If you will send Hartmut to me now, I'll speak with him."
So Willibald was told that he could go and visit his bride; the permission was granted all the more willingly because Frau Regine knew that Marietta Volkmar must have returned to the city long since.
For reply Regine unfolded a newspaper and pointing to a certain paragraph said tragically: "Read!" The head forester began to read, and he, too, soon became excited, and grew red and angry as he read on.
Marietta had risen respectfully at the entrance of the elder woman, whom she had met but once before, and whose inimical bearing toward herself she had not perceived in the joy of her first meeting again with her friends. She only noticed that Toni's future mother-in-law was not a cordial woman. This morning Frau Regine looked her over from head to foot with a critical eye.
The wedding must take place this winter. Willibald has no time to get married in the spring." "Nonsense, a man always has time to get married," declared Schönau, just as dictatorially. "Not in the country," asserted Frau Regine. "There something else must be considered; first work, then pleasure. That's always been the rule with us, and that's what I've taught Will."
"God help us! Moritz, we must go at once," exclaimed Regine. Schönau had already rung and he ordered horses and carriage to be got ready at once. "And now, Stadinger, tell us how it happened." "The Herr Baron was on his way from Ostwalden to Fürstenstein," began Stadinger. "The way lay through the Rodeck lands, not far from the Castle.
Then Hartmut Falkenried came home from his garrison on leave, and met the new family in the house of his friends. He saw Zalika, and his life's destiny was sealed. It was a sudden and blinding passion, for which one too often pays with the peace of a whole life. He forgot the wishes of his parents, their plans for his future, and his quiet, warm attachment for his youth's playfellow, Regine.
"It would be a very peaceful marriage, with you wagging your sharp tongue all the time." "It wouldn't be peaceful. I never expected that," Schönau declared, "but neither would it be monotonous. I believe we could endure one another. Now, once for all, Regine, will you have me or will you not?" "No, I don't care to enter into a marriage of endurance."
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