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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Why should my smile mean mockery?" "Adelheid! nay this never can be. One of my birth my ignoble, nameless origin, cannot even intimate his wishes, with honor, to a lady of thy name and expectations!" "Sigismund, it can be. Thou hast not well calculated either the heart of Adelheid de Willading, or the gratitude of her father."
Perhaps the heavier disgrace which crushes me may have caused this want to appear lighter than it otherwise might." "Disgrace!" repeated Adelheid, in a voice that was nearly choked. "The word is fearful, coming from one of thy regulated mind, and as applied to himself." "I cannot choose another.
Both had thought maturely, too, on the situation of Adelheid, of her hopes, and of her future fortunes, and both had reasoned much as two old nobles of that day, who were not without strong sympathies for their kind, while they were too practised to overlook the world and its ties, would be likely to reason on an affair of this delicate nature.
"'Odds my life! the fellow hath humor as well as good acting in him this Antoine Giraud! Will you look into the written order they have given as, fair Adelheid, that we may make sure this artisan-halberdier hath not deceived us? We in authority must not trust a Vévaisan too lightly."
Sebastian pushed her chair up for her, and when she was seated Fraulein Rottenmeier, with a severe countenance, sternly and solemnly addressed her: "I will speak with you afterwards, Adelheid, only this much will I now say, that you behaved in a most unmannerly and reprehensible way by running out of the house as you did, without asking permission, without any one knowing a word about it; and then to go wandering about till this hour; I never heard of such behavior before."
All was quiet in the castle; all the visitors, both gentlemen and ladies, were busy in their own rooms dressing for the evening. For the musicians with the twanging fiddles, untuned violoncellos, and braying oboes, of whom Lady Adelheid had spoken, were come, and a merrymaking of no less importance than a ball, to be given in the best possible style, was in anticipation.
During the whole of the preparations of the morning, Adelheid had looked on with a vacant eye, as if her feelings had little connexion with that which was passing before her face. It is scarcely necessary to say, that her mind, in spite of herself, wandered to other scenes, and that her truant thoughts were busy with interests very different from those which were here presented to the senses.
Adelheid I almost regarded in the light of a common go-between; I would despise her, and yet, upon second thoughts, I could not help being ashamed of my folly. Had anything ever happened during those blissful evening hours which could in the least degree lead to any nearer relation with Seraphina than was permissible by propriety and morality?
"Miau!" came the answer back. This was too much for the lady's temper; with raised voice she exclaimed, "You dare, Adelheid, after your bad behavior, to answer me as if it were a joke?" "I did not " began Heidi "Miau! miau!" Sebastian almost dropped his dish and rushed out of the room. "That will do," Fraulein Rottenmeier tried to say, but her voice was almost stifled with anger.
The allusion to his lost son caused another cloud to pass athwart the brow of the Genoese. "Thou seest, Adelheid," he continued, after a pause "for Adelheid will I call thee, in virtue of a second father's rights that we are making our folly respectable, at least to ourselves Master Patron, thou hast a well-charged bark!"
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