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When he was once more seated in his old place on the right hand of Katrina, Erik was able to look around him, and mark the changes that two years had made in the family. Otto was now a large, robust boy of sixteen years of age, and who looked twenty. As for Vanda, two years had added wonderfully to her size and beauty. Her countenance had become more refined.
"Nonsense!" the superstitious creature said to herself, "it was one or the other! The duke or the minister! I have not made the choice." Then looking at the confused image of herself thrown on the window of the cab, she threw a kiss at her own pale reflection, happy with the unbounded joy of a child, and cried aloud while laughing heartily: "Bonjour, Vanda! I greet you, Mademoiselle Vanda."
"It is possible that you really did not know it?" said Vanda. And she related naively, in terms of admiration for her son, the story of the loan that he had secured from the doctor. "We may not speak of it before Baron Bourlac," said Godefroid, "tell me now how your son got out of his trouble."
"No, I only know that he made a love-match with the daughter of General Tarlowski; that the daughter is named after the mother, Vanda; the grandson is called Auguste; and I have seen a portrait of Monsieur Bernard in the red robes of a president of the Royal Courts." "Here, read that," said Monsieur Joseph, pointing to the titlepage of the manuscript, written probably in Auguste's handwriting:
Among the exceptions are the fine Coelogynes, whose large clusters of yellow flowers ornament the gloomiest forests, and that most extraordinary plant, Vanda Lowii, which last is particularly abundant near some hot springs at the foot of the Penin-jauh Mountain. It grows on the lower branches of trees, and its us strange pendant flower-spires often hang down so as almost to reach the ground.
"You have worked long enough for to-night," she said, "it is time to lay the cloth for supper." Without a word of expostulation. Erik lifted his large book, and seated himself nearer the fire-place, whilst Vanda laid aside her knitting, and going to the buffet brought out the plates and spoons. "Did you say, Otto," asked the little girl, "that our Erik answered the doctor very well?"
"Quick, Otto, Erik, help the doctor to take off his overcoat, and you, Vanda, prepare another place at the table," she said, for, like all Norwegian housekeepers, she was very hospitable. "Will you do us the honor, doctor, of eating a morsel with us?" "Indeed I would not refuse, you may be sure, if I had the least appetite; for I see you have a very tempting dish before you.
BIELSKY. Ay, mount the snow-white steed, thine armor on, And so, a second Vanda, lead thy troops, Inspired by thee, to certain victory. MARINA. My spirit leads you. War is not for women. The rendezvous is in Kioff. Thither my father Will lead a levy of three thousand horse. My sister's husband gives two thousand more, And the Don sends a Cossack host in aid.
"I will gladly take a cup of tea, but on condition that, you eat your supper first," answered the doctor, seating himself in the large arm-chair. Vanda immediately placed the tea-kettle on the fire, and disappeared in the neighboring room. The rest of the family understanding with native courtesy that it would annoy their guest if they did not do as he wished, began to eat their supper.
Yes, his mother blesses him, Halpersohn adores him, but my father is implacable!" "What affair?" asked Godefroid. "Ah! I recognize your generosity," cried Vanda. "What a heart you have! Your mother must be proud of you." She stopped as if a pain had struck her heart. "I swear to you that I know nothing of the affair of which you speak," said Godefroid.
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