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"Do you not see she has it?" cried Leberecht. "Oh, you wretch, I will pay you I will scratch your eyes out, you miserable creature!" "Trude, be quiet," commanded Ebenstreit; "the general orders to give up the key do it!" "Yes, do it at once," shrieked Frau von Werrig, "or I will dismiss you from my service." "That you will not have to do, as I shall go myself. I will not give up the key."
"You forget with whom you speak, Frau von Werrig," Trude interrupted her, scornfully, "and that it does not become you to speak of Marie to old Trude, but you should remember her title."
"She will not insist, she will do what she is commanded to do my word for it! But why talk about it? It is better to decide the matter at once." So Frau von Werrig rose with a determined manner, and rang the small brass bell which was upon the sofa-table.
As the clock struck ten, Frau von Werrig declared that they must finish and go to bed. The general yielded, with a sigh, to her decision, for he knew, by long years of experience, that it would be in vain to defy her will.
Do you allow any one in your presence to treat me so shamefully? After all, it is your house; do speak and exercise your right as master here: tell your wife that I am her mother, and you, my adopted son, who bears my name, and that I have the just right to come here as often as it pleases me." "Speak your mind to Frau von Werrig," said Marie, as Ebenstreit remained silent.
Those who permit themselves to enter our room unasked and unwelcomed I will have nothing to say to them. Leave! there is the door! Out with you, off the threshold!" With calm demeanor, Moritz now approached Fran von Werrig, demanding her pardon, saying: "You see, madame, that I am not so unwelcome here, therefore you will be obliged to let me remain."
To whom do you owe all this, but to me alone?" "God in heaven, Thou hearest it!" cried Marie, solemnly, with uplifted arms. "She acknowledges that she alone has brought this misfortune upon me, and in this hour I stand justified." "Pardon, Frau von Werrig," said Ebenstreit, haughtily; "you are going too far. After my fortune, I thank you for my position.
"I was as cunning and wise as Solomon. There, shriek for Trude, order her to open it. Trude is not there, and she has no ears for you!" "This is a plot a shameful plot!" cried Frau von Werrig, stamping her feet. "That good-for-nothing creature, Trude, is in it. She has locked the doors, and the schoolmaster paid her for it." Trude shook her fist at her mistress behind the door.
"I have also heard it, and I tell you," said Frau von Werrig, "that this romantic heroine will become a perjurer, for I will find means to make her break her silly oath." "We will, perhaps, find means to delay the marriage," said Moritz proudly, "or, much more, prevent the marriage ceremony." "I am very curious to know the means," said Frau von Werrig.
But Frau von Werrig was immovable, and the general was too much occupied with his gouty, throbbing leg even to cast a look upon the beautiful group of youth, love, manly determination, and tender resignation. Outside the door, Trude knelt imploringly, with folded hands, while the tears ran down her old cheeks in big drops.
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