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Updated: May 24, 2025
The day had been hot and sunny, but the late afternoon hours brought a refreshing breeze, and swayed the drooping branches of the trees which overhung and shaded the road leading from Ostwalden through the Rodeck forest.
The head forester looked at her gravely for a moment, then he seized her hand and pressed it warmly, as he said: "Yes, I see, Regine, and perhaps you'll repent ere long of your no in another matter, and give a yes instead." The old steward of Rodeck stood in his master's dressing-room in the Adelsberg palace.
"The chests that have come must be unpacked in Rodeck for the time being at least, and if the worst comes to the worst, you must find room in your own house for them." "Yes, indeed, Stadinger has room and to spare in his own house for them," it was the tall, dark man who spoke now. "And I'll superintend the unpacking myself."
Some of the men had been invited to take up their quarters at his little hunting lodge, so that the life and bustle which centered at Fürstenstein, extended to the woodland loneliness of Rodeck. To-night the castle was brilliantly illuminated, and the colored lights which gleamed from its many windows, threw a rosy glow over wall and tower.
"What a singular caprice to change the name of his heroine in the last hour." "But that is not the case," Egon answered. "The change was made long before we left Rodeck. Hartmut took it into his head that 'Ada' was too cold and clear-cut a name for the passionate character of his heroine, so he re-baptized her." "But the name 'Ada' is here on the programme," interrupted the princess.
There's hunting enough around here to be sure, but then you never ask any ladies to Rodeck, and the ladies " "Are a great bore," interrupted the prince. "That's my opinion; but what are you prating about? You are generally down on the women, and unless they are over eighty don't want to see one of them around the place. Are you going back to your young and giddy days?"
Ice and snow covered the surrounding wood, and a faint half-moon lit up the whole with a ghastly, uncertain light. It was a bitter cold night, like that memorable one at Rodeck.
"There must be nice goings on at Rodeck anyway, which keep you there with that young foreigner who is another of the curiosities you brought from the Orient. He looks like an out and out brigand." "My friend Rojanow? He longs for the honor of being presented to you above all things. I may introduce him now, may I not?" and without waiting an answer, he hurried away to fetch Hartmut.
But before they had reached the door, it was opened hastily by a servant, who said excitedly: "The steward from Rodeck is here and wishes " "I have no time to be bothered now," interrupted Schönau sharply. "Tell old Stadinger I am engaged upon important family matters and "
Here, as at Rodeck, he was the bosom friend and guest of Prince Adelsberg, and many strange and wonderful stories were related of this friendship. But Hartmut's personality, above all else, created for him an enviable position no matter where he turned.
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