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So that, in fact, he regarded the notes of the Signorina G as so much collateral security for his debt. So Mr. Schulemberg was content to bide his reasonable time for the discharge of M. M. 's indebtedness to his principal. He had advised Mynheer Van Holland of the speedy sale of his consignment, and given him hopes of a quick return of the proceeds.
If he failed to obtain the one satisfaction, he at least could not complain of being disappointed of the other. Matters seemed to be in some little unbusiness-like confusion, and the clerks in a high state of gleeful excitement. Addressing himself to the chief among them, Mr. Schulemberg asked the pertinent question, "Is M. M. in?"
Send them down to my warehouse, No. 118 Pearl Street, tomorrow morning, and I will send you the money." "And your name?" inquired Mr. Schulemberg. "Is M. ," responded the courteous purchaser. The two merchants bowed politely, the one to the other, mutually well pleased with the morning's work, and bade each other good day. Mr.
"Ah, but, Monsieur, you are too good, and Madame will be recognizant to you forever for your gracious politeness. But, my God, it is impossible that I return to you the linen. I have sold it, Monsieur, I have sold it all!" "Sold it?" reiterated Mr. Schulemberg, regardless of the rules of etiquette, "Sold it? And to whom, pray? And when?"
But my story is not quite done yet; it must now pursue the fortunes of the enterprising impresario, Signor G , who had so deftly turned his daughter into a ship-load of fine linens. This excellent person sailed, as M. M. told Mr. Schulemberg, for Vera Cruz, with an assorted cargo, consisting of singers, fiddlers, and, as aforesaid, of Mynheer Van Holland's fine linens.
"They are still on hand and on sale," said Mr. Schulemberg. "What is the price of the entire consignment?" inquired the customer. "Fifty thousand dollars," responded Mr. Schulemberg. "And the terms?" "Cash, on delivery." "Very good," replied the obliging buyer, "if they be of the quality you describe in your advertisement, I will take them on those terms.
Schulemberg was very far from being a Shylock, and he was also a constant attendant upon the opera, and a devoted admirer of the lovely G . So he could not wonder that a man on the eve of marriage with that divine creature should forget every other consideration in the immediate contemplation of his happiness, even if it were the consideration for a cargo of prime linens, and one to the tune of fifty thousand dollars.
Schulemberg, plunging with epic energy into the midst of things, said, "I have called, M. M. , to receive the fifty thousand dollars, which, you will remember, you engaged to pay down for the linens I sold you on such a day. I can make allowance for the interruption which has prevented your attending to this business sooner, but it is now high time that it were settled."
She would present a reckoning in full ere all was done, and bitterly should the presumptuous young adventurer who had flouted her be made to pay. The opportunity was very soon to be afforded her. It arose more or less directly out of an act in which she indulged her spite against Sophia. This lay in throwing Melusina Schulemberg into the arms of the Electoral Prince.
The whole line advanced; but the left was halted for awhile, while Count Lottum, with his twenty-two battalions formed in three lines, attacked the right of the wood of Taisniere; and Schulemberg, with whom was Eugene himself, attacked their left.
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