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Make a note, if you please," he added, as the treasurer still stared in wonder. "Four thousand crowns?" asked Seraphina. "Pray for what?" "Madam," returned Otto, smiling, "for my own purposes." Gondremark spurred up Grafinski underneath the table. "If your Highness will indicate the destination ..." began the puppet. "You are not here, sir, to interrogate your Prince," said Otto.
"You are pleased to be witty, Herr von Gondremark," she said, "and have perhaps forgotten where you are. But these rehearsals are apt to be misleading. Your master, the Prince of Grünewald, is sometimes more exacting." Gondremark cursed her in his soul. Of all injured vanities, that of the reproved buffoon is the most savage; and when grave issues are involved, these petty stabs become unbearable.
There was no one left in whom she might confide; none whose hand was friendly, or on whom she dared to reckon for the barest loyalty. With the fall of Gondremark, her party, her brief popularity, had fallen. So she sat crouched upon the window-seat, her brow to the cool pane; her dress in tatters, barely shielding her; her mind revolving bitter thoughts.
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 have to say what I would fain not, he answered. 'I counsel you to see less of Gondremark. 'Of Gondremark? And why? she asked. 'Your intimacy is the ground of scandal, madam, said Otto, firmly enough 'of a scandal that is agony to me, and would be crushing to your parents if they knew it. 'You are the first to bring me word of it, said she. 'I thank you.
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!
She looked towards Mittwalden; and above the hill-top, which already hid it from her view, a throbbing redness hinted of fire. Better so: better so, that she should fall with tragic greatness, lit by a blazing palace! She felt not a trace of pity for Gondremark or of concern for Grünewald: that period of her life was closed for ever, a wrench of wounded vanity alone surviving.
"Herr von Gondremark," she replied, "by all that I hold sacred, I have none; I do not think at all; I am crushed." "You are looking at the passionate side of a rich nature, misunderstood and recently insulted," said the Baron. "Look into your intellect, and tell me." "I find nothing, nothing but tumult," she replied. "You find one word branded, madam," returned the Baron: "'Abdication!"
I believe what I believe; it is not much, but I believe it. But now to business. Have you not read my letter? 'No, she said; 'my head ached. 'Ah, well! then I have news indeed! cried Gondremark.
But to show that I speak of knowledge, and not as the reporter of mere gossip, I may mention that I have myself been present at a meeting where the details of a republican Constitution were minutely debated and arranged; and I may add that Gondremark was throughout referred to by the speakers as their captain in action and the arbiter of their disputes.
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