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Otto was pale, but he was otherwise master of himself. "Herr von Gondremark," said he, "oblige me so far: reconduct the Princess to her own apartment." The Baron, still all at sea, offered his hand, which was smilingly accepted, and the pair sailed forth through the picture-gallery.
But do not fear to be a loser. I propose instead that you should take me with you, a bear in chains, to Baron Gondremark. I am become perfectly unscrupulous: to save my wife I will do all, all he can ask or fancy. He shall be filled; were he huge as leviathan and greedy as the grave, I will content him. And you, the fairy of our pantomime, shall have the credit." "Done!" she cried. "Admirable!
They walked at first in silence; for Otto's mind was full of the delight of liberty and nature, and still, betweenwhiles, he was preparing his interview with Gondremark. But when the first rough promontory of the rock was turned, and the Felsenburg concealed behind its bulk, the lady paused. "Here," she said, "I will dismount poor Karl, and you and I must ply our spurs.
I must think. She took her head between her hands, and contemplated for a while the hurricane confusion of her thoughts. 'This information reaches me, she said, 'when I have need of it. I would not do as you have done, but yet I thank you. I have been much deceived in Baron Gondremark. 'O, madam, leave Gondremark, and think upon the Prince! cried von Rosen.
'Gondremark loves to temporise; his policy is below ground, and he fears all open courses; and now that I have seen you act with so much spirit, I will cheerfully risk myself on your protection. Who knows? You may be yet the better man. 'Do you indeed believe so? cried the Prince. 'You put life into my heart! 'I will give up sketching portraits, said the Baronet.
One man alone can save the country from this pass, and that is the double-dealer Gondremark, with whom I conjure you to make peace. It will not be you; it never can be you: you, who can do nothing, as your wife said, but trade upon your station you, who spent the hours in begging money! And in God's name, what for? Why money? What mystery of idiocy was this? 'It was to no ill end.
"No," she said; "I told you from the first there is no remedy. Our hopes are lost: lost by one miserable trifler, ignorant, fretful, fitful who will have disappeared to-morrow, who knows? to his boorish pleasures!" Any peg would do for Gondremark. "The thing!" he cried, striking his brow. "Fool, not to have thought of it! Madam, without perhaps knowing it, you have solved our problem."
She tripped to a window and looked out; and a little after, the chamberlain announced the Freiherr von Gondremark, who entered with something of a wild eye and changed complexion, confounded, as he was, at this unusual summons. The Princess faced round from the window with a pearly smile; nothing but her heightened colour spoke of discomposure.
Gondremark watched her suspiciously. "Why do you take the paper?" he demanded. "Give it here." "No," she returned; "I mean to keep it. It is I who must prepare the stroke; you cannot manage it without me; and to do my best I must possess the paper. Where shall I find Gordon? In his rooms?" She spoke with a rather feverish self-possession.
This puts the minx entirely in my power; le tour est joué; she will now go steady in harness, or I will know the reason why. Come. "Command yourself, madam," said the Countess, watching with some alarm the white face of Seraphina. "It is in vain for you to fight with Gondremark; he has more strings than mere court favour, and could bring you down to-morrow with a word.
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