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Updated: June 14, 2025
"My dear guardian," said Szilard, "to prove to you that I did think of all these things let me tell you that I have put by from my salary and commissions enough to enable us to live comfortably for at least a twelvemonth. For a whole year I have lived on two pence a day in order to save, and during all that time I am sure you have not heard from me one word of complaint." Mr. Sipos was horrified.
You acted as he would have had you act. And now I also would remind you once more that you were christened Szilard and I ask you therefore to listen calmly to what I am about to say to you. Don't interrupt, don't attempt to deceive me. If you don't want to answer my questions, simply shake your head! And now sit down, my son! You are still barely convalescent.
The usual stiffness of a first introduction was speedily broken down by the quaint conceits of the count. The countess had donned a flowing antique moiré dress and wore her hair in long English curls to match. "Come now, friend Szilard!" cried the count, "what do you say? this dress and that coiffure hardly suit the countess's style of face eh?"
So he quickly routed up all the halters in the mill and they set to work. The blind giant laid the pandurs one by one across his knee and placing their hands behind their backs crosswise held them towards Szilard, who bound them fast.
You need not be afraid of me." Szilard was a little taken aback by this unexpected turn. Could it be sheer curiosity, he thought? "I have nothing to be afraid of, countess," remarked Szilard, smiling, "I have no buried secrets. I was a young man once, that is all. I have had my foolish illusions, like other people, and like other people I have cured myself of them."
Men were coming in all directions towards the bridge, and there in the middle of it they stood; I counted them there were four and twenty of them." Szilard now began to listen attentively. "Then he spoke. Oh, even if I had had the light of both my eyes, I could not have seen him so plainly before me as I saw him in my blindness when I heard him speak.
Heretofore he had never regarded the countess as a particularly pretty woman, but now he very readily persuaded himself that he was over head and ears in love with her. He began to pay his court to her and he was lucky. At least everybody believed it himself included. The countess always seemed pleased to see him, and the oftener he paid his visits, the less frequent grew the visits of Szilard.
"Let me murder him, let me murder that villain," he cried. Szilard was a strong man so he easily disarmed the youth. Then Coloman began to weep and fling himself on the ground. Szilard seized him by the arm and hoisted him on to a chair again. "Be a man!" he cried. "Of whom do you speak? whom do you want to kill?" "That villain Margari." "Then it was he who persuaded you to take this step?"
The young wife felt that she was being made much of. She felt in the midst of all this homage and devotion as if she had been lifted up to Heaven, and her heart was full of gratitude. But Szilard did not see her face at that moment. He was far away, never dreaming that anybody still thought of him. A surprise of quite another sort awaited Henrietta.
And Henrietta had called it Szilard and watched over its growth and cared for it as if it had been a living human creature. For a long time she stood before this flowering plant as if she would have spoken to it and taken counsel of it.
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