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Updated: June 14, 2025
The result of her communication to her father and her relatives in the Windberg-gasse had been by no means so terrible as she had anticipated. The heavens and the earth had not as yet shown any symptoms of coming together. Her aunt, indeed, had been very angry; and Lotta Luxa and Souchey had told her that such a marriage would not be allowed.
There was a counter running through it, and a cross-counter, such as are very common when seen by the light of day in shops; but the place seemed to be mysterious to Souchey; and always afterwards, when he thought of this interview, he remembered that his tale had been told in the gloom of a chamber that had never been arranged for honest Christian purposes.
"Here is a girl from the Jew," said Souchey, whispering into her ear as she sat at her father's bedside "one of themselves. Shall I tell her to go away, because he is so ill?" And Souchey pointed to his master's head on the pillow. "She has got a basket, but she can leave that."
He slowly unfolded the document, and perused the heading of it; then he refolded it, and placed it on the table, and stood there with his hand upon it. "This," said he, "is the paper for which I am looking. Souchey, at any rate, is not a liar. "How came it there?" said Nina, almost screaming in her agony.
He did not like being told of people's souls, feeling probably that the misfortunes of this world were quite heavy enough for a poor wight like himself, without any addition in anticipation of futurity. "Think of her soul, Souchey," repeated Lotta, who was at all points a good churchwoman. "It's bad enough any way," said Souchey.
But when she should be alone in the old house, with the corpse lying on the bed, would Anton Trendellsohn come to her then? He did not come to her now, though he knew of her father's illness. She sent Souchey to the Jews' quarter to tell the sad news not to him, but to old Trendellsohn.
Then the Jewess said a word or two to the old man, and he retreated from Nina's side, but stood looking at her till she was out of sight. Then he returned home to the cold desolate house in the Kleinseite, where his only companion was the lifeless body of his old master. But Souchey, as he left his young mistress, made no complaint of her treatment of him.
For Lotta Luxa had a little money of her own, and poor Souchey had none. Lotta muttered something about the thoughtless thanklessness of young people, and then took herself down-stairs. Nina opened the door of the back parlour, and found her cousin Ziska sitting alone with his feet propped upon the stove. "What, Ziska," she said, "you not at work by ten o'clock!"
"Souchey, I wonder you should speak like that before father," said Nina. "And why shouldn't he speak?" said Balatka. "I think he has as much right as any one." "He has no right to make things worse than they are." "I don't know how I could do that, Nina," said the servant. "What made you take that money back to your aunt?" "I didn't take it back to my aunt." "Well, to any of the family then?
That he should have been capable of being deceived by such a plot against her was enough for her. She did not even speak to Souchey on the subject. In the course of the afternoon he came across her as she moved about the house, looking ashamed, not daring to meet her eyes, hardly able to mutter a word to her. But she said not a syllable to him about her desk.
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