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Updated: July 22, 2025
Timar forgot the sophism that he offered Timéa something besides the treasures which were hers himself and in exchange demanded the girl's heart, and that this was a deception, and like taking her by force. He wished to hasten the wedding. There was no need of delay on account of the trousseau, for he had bought everything in Vienna.
If one morsel of musty bread should appear against Timar, woe to him! But nothing of the sort was found. For eight days the commission worked day and night. They heard witnesses, took oaths, inquired, had the provost up all in vain, no one could say anything against Timar.
I shall do the same with you; and when you can bear no more, then cry 'enough." Timar listened with the deadly interest of a man on the rack to the words of the galley-slave. "Till now I have told not a soul what I know, on my honor.
Two days before it Johann Fabula came flying into Timar's house. Yes, flying his floating cloak represented the wings. "Ten thousand! Twenty thousand! Forty thousand! Commission paid! The emperor! The king! Pasture! The crop!" He gasped out disconnected words, which Timar at last put together. "All right, Johann; I know what you mean.
Another woman would have locked up the money that it might not run away, and this one ventures to carry on her husband's enterprise, only in tenfold measure. "I thought you would have acted thus," said Timéa. "Yes, indeed," muttered Timar.
The fisherman was persuaded by a promise of liberal payment to undertake this, and by daylight they had reached the ferry where the ships generally took in their cargo. There were post-carriages at the inn on the bank, of which Timar engaged one to take him to Levetinczy.
After the concentration of troops in Komorn, Timar had suddenly become a wealthy man. He had bought a house in the Servian Street, the "City" of the Komorn merchants. No one was surprised. The phrase once uttered by the Emperor Francis I. to a contractor who had remained poor, was, "The ox stood at the manger, why did he not eat?"
Timéa took out the Turkish sword and looked at the hilt; then she laid it on the table and stretched out her hand in silence to the major. He took it gently in both his own, and carried it to his lips; it could hardly be seen whether he kissed it. Timéa did not draw it away. "I thank you!" whispered the major, so low that Timar could not hear it in his hiding-place, but the eyes said it too.
He worked his way in a small skiff through the reeds, reached dry land, pushed through hedges and bushes, and then stood transfixed with admiration. A cultivated orchard of some five or six acres was before him, and beyond that a flower-garden, full of summer bloom. Timar went up through the orchard and flower garden to a cottage, built partly in the rock, and covered with creepers.
In the afternoon Timar could no longer endure the silent looks, the enigmatical expression of his wife; under pretense of wanting to smoke he took a seat by the driver in the open coupé, and remained there. When they got out at a post-house, Athalie grumbled at the bad roads, the dreadful heat, the annoying flies, the stifling dust, and all the rest of a traveler's trials.
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