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The address was not complimentary, especially as coming from a lady in regard to whom he entertained tender feelings; but Souchey forgave the something of coarse familiarity which the words displayed, and, seating himself on the stool before the victuals, gave play to the feelings of the moment. "There's no one to measure what's left of the sausage," said Lotta, instigating him to new feats.
"Souchey," said she, with her eyes flashing fire at him, "if you cannot treat your master's daughter better than that, you may as well go." "Is it not true?" demanded Souchey. "No, it is not true; it is false. I have never taken money from Anton; nor shall I do so till we are married." "And that will be never," said Souchey. "It is as well to speak out at once. The priest will not let it be done."
He knew that he had betrayed her, and brought her close upon the step of death's door. He could understand it all now. Indeed he had understood it all since the first word that Anton Trendellsohn had spoken after reading Nina's note. "She will destroy herself," Anton had said. "What! Nina, my mistress?" said Souchey. Then, while Anton had called Rebecca to him, Souchey had seen it all.
"No, you gander. If there was anything of that sort I could manage it myself. But if she had a thing locked up away from him, couldn't you manage to show it to him? He's very generous in rewarding, you know." "I don't want to have anything to do with it," said Souchey, getting up from his stool and preparing to take his departure.
She heard the voice of Souchey quite plain, and then she perceived that Souchey's companion was a woman. Something of the gentleness of a woman's voice reached her ear, but she could distinguish no word that was spoken. The steps were now very close to her, and with terrible anxiety she peeped out to see who might be Souchey's companion.
Nina said nothing further on the occasion, though Souchey and her father went on grumbling for an hour. She discovered, however, from various words that her father allowed to fall from him, that his opposition to her marriage had nearly faded away. It seemed to be his opinion that if she were to marry the Jew, the sooner she did it the better.
Though he had been so keen after the sausage, he was above taking a bribe in such a matter as this. "Stop, Souchey, stop. I didn't think that I should ever have to ask anything of you in vain." Then she put her face very close to his, so that her lips touched his ear, and she laid her hand heavily upon his arm, and she was very confidential.
It was Souchey, and he was not alone. It must be Anton who had come out with him to seek her, and to save her. But no. He should have no such relief as that from his coming sorrow. So she clung fast, waiting till they should pass, but still leaning a little towards the causeway, so that, if it were possible, she might see the figures as they passed.
She knew that Souchey was down-stairs, hanging somewhere in idleness about the door, and therefore she did not leave her place. If it were indeed her aunt, her aunt might come up there to seek her. Or it might possibly be Lotta Luxa, who, next to her aunt, was of all women the most disagreeable to Nina.
I suppose it came from your aunt?" "It came from my cousin Ziska, and I thought it better to give it back. Souchey, do not you come in between father and me. There are troubles enough; do not you make them worse." "If I had been here you should never have taken it back again," said Souchey, obstinately. "Father," said Nina, appealing to the old man, "how could I have kept it?
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