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"Then you will receive from me the promised reward of a hundred thalers. If you hush up the entire adventure, so that it is not noised about, after three months, still another hundred." "We will be silent, Herr Ebenstreit." "I believe you; a hundred thalers is a pretty sum.
"Have the kindness to follow me," said Ebenstreit, leading Moritz through the circle of jesting, slandering ladies and gentlemen, to the centre of the room, where Marie was still standing with the French ambassador and the two ladies. "My dear," said her husband, "I have brought you an old acquaintance, Professor Moritz."
"For this very reason I demanded your removal. You permitted yourself to proffer advice which I felt did not become you," replied Marie, with a strange smile of triumph. "And, I repeat, would that you had not done it!" sighed the old man. "I came to warn you, to conjure you, to save yourselves to flee while there is yet time." "Oh, mercy! what has happened?" cried Ebenstreit, terrified.
Whilst all were entertained at the fetes, and envied the splendor and wealth of Baron von Ebenstreit, there were many sinister remarks as to the possibility of sustaining this expenditure upon such a grand scale. It was whispered about that the banking-house, conducted under another name, had lost in extensive speculations, and that the baron lived upon his principal instead of his interest.
The very day that I married Herr von Ebenstreit I renounced all family ties, and resolved to be self-reliant. My husband will witness that he has never known me to yield, and that I have always been firm and resolute in my decision." "No one would doubt it," replied Ebenstreit, timidly. "We had a very strange marriage, which scarce deserves the name.
I can only say, 'Woe to them!" "Woe to you!" cried her mother. "Woe to the seducer who has persuaded our child to sin and crime, and " "Hush mother! I will not permit you to slander him whom I love, and ever shall, so long " "Until you forget him, and love me, Marie," said Ebenstreit. Approaching her, he seized her hand, and pressed a kiss upon it.
I became his wife before the world, and took my oath in his presence to revenge myself, and after four years I shall accomplish it. I have spent his money, and of the rich man made a beggar. God be praised, I can now revenge myself in freeing myself!" "Free yourself? It is not true! You are my wife still," replied Ebenstreit, alarmed.
Herr Ebenstreit was heartily delighted with her zealous impatience, and handed her ten rolls of gold, reminding her of the conditions. "I have already consoled her a little, and she begins to change. I hope every thing will turn for good. Just leave her alone with me." "But first, I must go and see my aged brother, who will take care of my money," replied Trude.
"You are a miserable scamp!" cried Ebenstreit, enraged; "I will inform the police. There are means enough to force you to give the information." "I do not believe it. Trude will not tell you, and I should like to know what can force me if I will not. The king has done away with torture, and I have informed you how to make me speak. Three thousand thalers and a clerkship in your office.
"It is a fraud!" cried Ebenstreit. "I will protest against it." "Do it, and you will find it a vain effort. I promised to pay your debt if you would put your name to the document then placed before you, which you did. Ask the Marquis Treves how I paid your debts: he will answer you that he has given me the money."
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