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Updated: June 18, 2025
He said he had no intention of being refused again, but you'll see him sooner than you think. In fact he's in the house now, came half an hour ago, but I determined to say nothing about it before mamma here he is now!" The head forester stepped on the terrace just in time to hear the last words. "Yes, here I am," said Herr von Schönau.
Egon repeated the story he had already related to the head forester about the heat of Ostend, and his desire for solitude in his little woodland home. His listener's fleeting smile showed him that she was as incredulous as Herr von Schönau had been; perhaps she too had read the newspaper statements concerning the royal niece at Ostend.
"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."
"Marietta, how wise you are!" he said, looking with admiration at the smiling girl, who was beaming with satisfaction at the manner in which her news had been received. "I'm wiser than you think," she declared triumphantly, "for I have set the wheel going. I took occasion to let uncle Schönau know that if he stormed the fort again, a complete surrender might follow.
"And then he's a young husband of six and fifty, don't forget that," interrupted the forester spitefully. "Yes, he took his time about marrying, but he made a dazzling match at last. For a man of his years it was no easy matter to win such a wife as Adelheid, young, beautiful, rich " "And of common birth," added Schönau. "Stuff and nonsense!
We will have to interfere with that, I fear. Better think it well over before you decide finally." With that he turned quickly on his heel and left the room, just in time to meet the head forester at its entrance. "Where have you been hiding yourself, Herbert?" Schönau asked impatiently. "I have been searching the whole place for you." "I went to the tower-chamber in search of my wife."
"Do you still reprove me because I did my best to put an unclean thing out of your house? You have always been blind. You would not listen to me and now it is too late." "I believe you're gone clean mad, Regine," said Herr von Schönau solemnly. He didn't really know what to think. "Control yourself long enough to tell me what the trouble is."
"I'm glad you can see the comical side," she said after a pause. "I confess I look another way." "That won't help you much," Herr von Schönau answered. "When a model son begins to rebel, that's the end of it. It's hopeless trying to change him, particularly when he's in love. But I am very curious to see Will genuinely in love, and to hear what this paragon has to say for himself."
They were now both on the fair way to have another pitched battle, when they were happily interrupted by the appearance of a young girl, the daughter of the house, who stepped out on the terrace at this moment. Antonie von Schönau could never be called beautiful, but she had her father's fine figure and a fresh, glowing face, with clear brown eyes.
I must see my fellow-men, and the head forester is the only gentleman in the neighborhood; and besides, Herr von Schönau is a splendid, jolly fellow. You will like him when you meet him." He jumped into the carriage, waved a parting greeting to his friend, and was off.
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