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Updated: June 14, 2025
General and Frau von Werrig, I conjure you to have compassion upon us. Is it possible that you are deaf to the cry of grief of your own child?" Suddenly assuming a contemptuous calm, Frau von Werrig sank back upon the divan with great dignity. "As I am obliged to listen to you, through a shameful deception, let it be so. Try to make ears in my heart, which you say is deaf.
"But God will hear her, Frau von Werrig, and He will take vengeance on the cruel, heartless mother." "I will await this vengeance," she sneered. "It does not concern you, and you need not trouble yourself about it. Leave the house!" "I came here to speak with you, and I will not go away until you have listened to me."
Trude entered suddenly and noiselessly the sitting-room, and interrupted the angry reproaches which Frau von Werrig hurled against Marie in a furious stream of words. The countess's rage turned against Trude, who stared as if to challenge her. "What do you want? How dare you enter uncalled?" "I thought you were calling deaf old Trude, or why did you scream so?" replied Trude, tartly.
You receive a very considerable annuity from me, therefore you cannot accuse me of ingratitude, but must confess that you have driven a very good bargain. You must forgive me if I beg of you to end this painful scene." "That means that I must leave," said Frau von Werrig, mildly, remembering the gambling debt and the annuity.
"You acknowledge that you locked the door intentionally?" "Now, my dear, good Frau von Werrig, one does not lock a door by mistake. I did not want Herr Moritz to run away with fright, before you had given him your mind, and set his head straight. He would certainly have escaped, and only heard the half of your beautiful talk, for he had no idea what a miserable fellow he is.
If you were rich, it might be possible that we should be touched by the tender amorousness of our daughter, and conquer our aversion to you for her sake. You are of low birth, and take a subordinate position in society. It would be extremely laughable for the schoolmaster Moritz to change suddenly into a Herr von Werrig Leuthen.
"General Werrig von Leuthen has addressed himself to you, sire, praying for the consent of your majesty to the marriage of his daughter with the banker Ebenstreit. Your majesty has consented, and added that Herr Ebenstreit shall take the name of his future father-in-law, and the marriage shall take place as soon as the title of nobility has been made out." The king nodded.
"She knows that she is not in bed." "Oh, you sneak, you rascal," cried Trude, shaking her fist at him, "how dare you say that I tell a lie? How can such a miserable creature as you impute to others what you do yourself every time that you open your mouth?" "Frau von Werrig, she is only quarrelling, in order to gain time every moment is precious.
"Yes, Clotilda, love usurped reason," soothingly replied the general; "love is your excuse." "Nonsense!" cried Madame von Werrig. "Love is never an excuse; it is folly."
I supposed there was nothing in the world troubled her." "And yet I am very much tormented. I can well tell you, Trude, as you are familiar with our circumstances," sighed the countess. "You know the general is tolerably well; the journeys to Wiesbaden and Teplitz have cured him of the gout unfortunately, so that he can go about." "Are you sorry for that, Frau von Werrig?"
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