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Updated: June 25, 2025
"But you have forgotten that up here, in my attic-room, I am not your Fraulein, but your Marie, whom you have taken care of and watched over when a child, and whose best and truest friend you have been. Come, give me your hand, and tell me what you have to say." Old Trude shuffled hurriedly along in her leather slippers.
"He is a safe man and will not spend it." "Trude," cried the general, "what an old fool! to seek at distance what is so near you. I will take your money, and give you interest. Do you hear? I will take care of it!" "Thank you, general, I'd rather give it to my brother, on account of the relationship." She slipped out of the room, hid the money in her bed, and hurriedly left the house.
"I have only one request that you will permit me to prove that I am a faithful servant, who looks out for the good of his employers. You have given Trude five hundred thalers that she might watch over your daughter. I can show you how well she deserved it, and how differently your humble servant would have done.
"Then I will leave, for I will not hear you, and I command you to follow me, Marie!" She seized Marie with irresistible force, and drew her toward the side door, which was fast. Then hurried toward the entrance, dragging her daughter after her, but shook it in vain; that door was fastened also. "Oh! I could kiss myself," murmured Trude, as she patted her old, wrinkled cheeks.
Will you allow me, father, to send your servant to my office for it?" "Send Leberecht here, Trude!" The old woman hurried out of the room, but the door once closed, her manner changed. One might have supposed a sudden cramp had seized her, from her distorted face, and twitching and panting, and beating the air with her clinched fists, and her quivering lips uttering broken words.
That good-for-nothing money hardens their hearts and makes them evil and selfish." The loud ringing of a bell sounded through the solitary drawing-rooms. "That is, undoubtedly, the general's wife," said Trude, shaking her head. "She rings as if she would announce the king, with her nose turned up so high, or as if she were the money-sacks of her son-in-law!"
"What does it mean? What could persuade him to abandon me in this hour of need? Tell me, Trude, what do you think? Console me if you can. You really know nothing further than that he is gone?" "A little bit more, but not much, my heart's child.
His wife bowed dignifiedly, and the happy bridegroom gave old Trude some gold-pieces upon the favorable news. "Has she, then, been converted by your persuasion?" he asked. "Through my persuasion and her own good sense. She understands that, if she cannot marry her dear Moritz, Herr Ebenstreit is the most fit husband, because he loves her, and is so generous to her old parents.
"Fraulein told me not to disturb her to-day, for she has still two bouquets of flowers to arrange, and two lessons to give, and she is so busy that she is not at home to visitors. She torments herself from morning till night." "I order you to tell Fraulein to come down at once; we have something important to tell her. No contradiction! go, Trude!"
"Now go, Trude we must not give way; you know me; you well understand my feelings, and see into my heart." The old woman went out, drying her eyes. Marie uttered her last farewell. "With you the past goes forth, with you my youth and hope! When the door again opens, my future enters a strange, fearful life. Woe to those who have prepared it for me woe to those who have so cruelly treated me!
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