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"But, grandpapa, will you not introduce me to this gentleman?" "Certainly, my child. Herr Willibald von Eschenhagen of Burgsdorf " "Toni's betrothed!" interrupted Marietta delighted. "O, how comical that we should meet each other for the first time in the mud. If I had known who it was I would not have treated you so cavalierly, Herr von Eschenhagen.
Tell me this moment where is Mrs. Rose?" "Wouldn't you like to know?" While she mocked him she was endeavouring to edge past him to reach the table on which Toni's letter still lay. Unconsciously he frustrated her, blocking the way in an attempt to force her to speak plainly. "I intend to know." His voice was as cold as ice. "Come, Eva, if pity for the girl doesn't move you, think of the man.
If she could be convinced that her departure would be beneficial to the man she loved, she would certainly leave him, though it broke her heart to go. "No, of course not." Eva spoke a trifle vaguely. "But you couldn't go, Toni. It would be impossible. Why, your husband would think you were mad." "Would he? Perhaps I am." Toni's smile was a little melancholy.
Toni's household duties, therefore, were confined to the arrangement of the flowers and the care of her husband's desk a labour of love which she performed with so much good will that Owen felt it would be churlish to find fault with any inconvenience arising therefrom. Owen often wondered how his wife managed to fill the days which must be so terribly empty.
Although Toni was not an intellectual woman, she had sharp wits; and possibly she understood Millicent Loder's personality a good deal better than Owen was able to do. And what Toni saw and Toni's intuition was rarely at fault led her to distrust the other girl with all her heart and soul. Miss Loder belonged to a rather uncommon variant of the type of emancipated womanhood.
A few ship-wrecked lives marked Toni's path, a few female slanders against her were avenged by the courts. Otherwise nothing of import took place. And in her heart burned with never-lessening glow the one great emotion which always supplied fuel to her will, which lent every action a pregnant significance and furnished absolution for every crime.
She was already known in Interlaken for she had served as chambermaid in one of the hotels for several summers before her marriage. When the day came for the big herd of cows to be taken up to the mountain pasture, Toni's mother gave him his little bundle and said: "Go now, in God's name!
In Frutigen I will provide for Toni's board and lodging and for everything he needs." In her great delight the lady shook hands with both the mother and the boy repeatedly, and went out to instruct her maid about preparations for the journey. When the mother with her boy had been taken to their room, the doctor said with great delight to his wife: "We have two recoveries. Our lady is also cured.
The introduction of Herrick's name puzzled him considerably; and although he frowned at Toni's description of Miss Loder, he realized that by some means Toni had been made unhappy over her own position as his wife. "See here, Toni, I don't quite understand." He looked at her keenly. "Who says you are ignorant and all the rest? And what on earth has Herrick to do with our affairs?"
Somehow the real truth about Eva Herrick had leaked out; as such truths do invariably leak out; and Toni's ill-advised friendship with Herrick's wife was easily turned to her disadvantage by so skilful an adversary as Lady Martin.
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