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Souchey listened to the whisper till his face grew longer and longer. "'Tis for her soul," said Lotta "for her poor soul's sake. When you can save her by raising your hand, would you let her be damned for ever?" But she could exact no promise from Souchey except that he would keep faith with her, and that he would consider deeply the proposal made to him.
To Anton Trendellsohn, over in the Kleinseite, Souchey could be independent, and perhaps on occasions a little insolent; but of Anton Trendellsohn in his own domains he almost acknowledged to himself that he was afraid.
"I did not tell him that I was coming." "But he knows he knows that father is so ill." "Yes; I suppose he has heard that, because Souchey came to the house. But he has been out of temper with us all, and unhappy, for some days past. I know that he is unhappy when he is so harsh with us." "And what has made him unhappy? "Nay, I cannot tell you that.
Lotta, who was familiar with the place, entered the house first, and her mistress followed her. Hanging about the broad passage which communicated with all the rooms on the ground-floor, they found Souchey, who told them that his master was in bed, and that Nina was at work by his bedside.
And in these moments Souchey was with her, busy in the dying man's room; and there were gentle kind words spoken between him and Nina as would be natural between such persons at such a time.
It might be Rebecca, or Souchey, or Ruth, or Lotta, or all of them together. His love, his knowledge of her whom he loved, should have carried him aloft out of the reach of any such poor trick as that! What mattered it now who had stolen her key, and gone like a thief to her desk, and laid this plot for her destruction?
Souchey, indeed, had frightened him on the subject when it had first been mentioned to him; and Nina, coming with her own assurance so quickly after Souchey's suspicion, had upset him; but his feeling in regard to Nina had none of that bitter anger, no touch of that abhorrence which animated the breast of his sister-in-law. When Ziska came to him he was alone in his bedroom.
Nina, in her triumph, could not restrain herself from telling Souchey that Father Jerome did not by any means think so badly of her as did the others; and Souchey, partly in defence of Nina, and partly in quest of further sound information on the knotty religious difficulty involved, repeated it all to Lotta.
Souchey for that was his name was very faithful, but with his fidelity had come a want of reverence towards his master and mistress, and an absence of all respectful demeanour. The enjoyment of this apparent independence by Souchey himself went far, perhaps, in lieu of wages. "Nina," he said to her one morning, "you are seeing too much of Anton Trendellsohn."
"And Nina you have brought some message probably from her?" "No no indeed; that is, not exactly; not to-day, Herr Trendellsohn. The truth is, I had wished to speak a word or two to you about the maiden; but perhaps you are engaged perhaps another time would be better." "I am not engaged, and no other time could be better." They were still out in the passage, and Souchey hesitated.
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