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"We did not force you; you could have said no, either of you, if you had desired." "Well, we do it now," Willibald answered, so decidedly and quickly that his uncle looked at him quite bluffed. "Toni sees as well as I that a mere marriage by arrangement is not right, and when one has felt the bliss of loving he must marry the object of that love and no other."
The most of his manuscripts came into the possession of King George III, and are preserved in the musical library of Buckingham Palace. Christoph Willibald Gluck has been called the "regenerator of the opera" for he appeared just at the right moment to rescue opera from the deplorable state into which it had fallen.
And she raises such a racket with her son, too. She might as well have left Will here. No one knows why she dragged him away; just before the duke came, too. I'm sure I'll never understand your sister." "It's a good thing she did," muttered Wallmoden, as he separated from von Schönau. "If Willibald had seen his boyhood's friend here, there would have been another scene, doubtless.
Her brother shrugged his shoulders and said half aloud: "He can grow up an ignorant country squire for all of me perhaps it's the best thing for him after all." Hartmut and Willibald had, in the meantime, reached the tolerably extensive forest which belonged to the estate.
I let you walk behind me as though you were a veritable porter. But why didn't you speak?" Willibald didn't speak now, but looked stupidly at the little hand which was extended to him. He felt he must do or say something, and as it was an impossibility for him to speak, he grasped the little hand in his great, brawny palm and pressed and shook it vigorously.
But come, let us leave this ardent lover to finish his nap in peace. He has good strong nerves, I must say that for him." With these words the irate father gave Antonie his arm and led her from the room. But Frau von Eschenhagen, already highly incensed, felt that her son's inattention to his sweetheart was an additional insult, and now turned upon poor Willibald in a fury.
"Hartmut, I verily believe you'd take pleasure in such a wild, lawless life," said Willibald, with the repugnance of a well-trained boy for such sentiments. His companion laughed, but it was the same bitter laugh without the joyousness of youth in its sound. "Well, if I had any such desire, they'd take it out of me at the military academy.
"Come near, Hartmut, I wish to speak with you." His son obeyed, but reluctantly. He knew already that Willibald had confessed, and that Regine had summoned his father at once, but, united to the shyness with which he always approached his father, there was to-day an obvious defiance, which did not escape the Major. He gave his handsome young son a long, gloomy look.
Willibald was in the little garden of Waldhofen, speaking earnestly and impressively to the old doctor, who sat upon the rustic bench, but who hardly seemed persuaded by the younger man's eloquence. "But, Will, it seems very precipitate," he said, shaking his head, "your betrothal to Marietta has never been made public, and now you are going to be married. What will the world say?"
Toni sat in the window-seat, and near her stood Willibald, who, by his mother's special orders, was to play the rôle of sentinel. Frau von Eschenhagen had not yet been able to accomplish her purpose concerning the opera singer.
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