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He threw up his straight legs that his heels touched his thighs every time. The wind blew his broad-brimmed sailor hat back, then he tore it off and ran on bareheaded, he was in such a hurry. What was it that drew him so powerfully to those people? The smile disappeared from Käte's face; she left the window. Wolfgang was happy.
She quite shouted at the girl as she said: "Do you know where my son is Wolfgang Wolfgang Schlieben?" Frida's rosy face turned white in her surprise. She wanted to say something, stammered, hesitated, bit her lips and got scarlet. "How should I know? I don't know." "You know very well. Don't tell a lie." Käte seized hold of Frida violently by both her slender arms.
Flemming declined the invitation; and proposedto Berkley, that he should join him in his excursion on the lake. "You shall hear the grand echo of the Falkenstein," said he, "and behold the scene of the Bridal Tragedy; and then we will go on as far as the village of Saint Wolfgang, which you have not yet seen, except across the lake."
Wolfgang was very polite, Frida always got leave to throw them again and again; a butter dish of blue glass, a glazed paper-bag full of gingerbread nuts, but above all a little dicky-bird in a tiny wooden cage made her extremely happy. Hans was allowed to carry it all, whilst she and Wolfgang rushed along on the walk home from Schildhorn, chaffing each other. Her sweetheart did not disturb them.
She had spoken too late, and now he did not want to hear anything more about it, nothing more whatever. In her dull wretchedness the words "too late" hurt her soul as if they had been branded on it. Käte had no longer the courage to revert again to what she had wanted to confess to Wolfgang that night. Besides, what was the good?
The unpretentious man he was a subordinate official in one of the government offices and probably could not afford it promised the driver a good tip if he would only drive them quickly to their home in Berlin. He enveloped his son in the rug that lay on the back seat; the driver also gave them a horse-cloth, and Wolfgang wrapped it round his schoolfellow's legs.
An unpleasant scene would be the only result, which would not lead to anything, and would probably do more harm. For they no longer met on common ground. And thus things went on without any special disturbance, but all three suffered nevertheless; the son too. Frida thought she noticed that Wolfgang was often depressed.
The opera was called "Mitridate," and was finished after three months' hard work. The first performance was given in Milan, December 26, 1770, and was conducted by Wolfgang himself. It was a proud, happy day for the father, indeed for the whole family.
The journey to Rome was now continued, and for Wolfgang it was a succession of triumphs. At Florence he played before the Court of the Archduke Leopold, and solved every problem put to him by the Court music director as easily as though he were eating a bit of bread. It was Holy Week when young Mozart and his father entered Rome, and the city lay under the spell of the great festival of the year.
The testament in question, therefore, was nothing more than an evidential statement, written down and deposited with the court, to the effect that Freiherr Wolfgang von R had bequeathed the estate-tail to a son who was at that time still living; and accordingly it had as evidence no greater weight than that of any other witness, and so could not by any possibility legitimately establish the claims of the person who had announced himself to be Freiherr Roderick von R . Hence it was rather the duty of this new claimant to prove by action at law his alleged rights of inheritance, which were hereby expressly disputed and denied, and so also to take proper steps to maintain his claim to the estate-tail, which now, according to the laws of succession, fell to Baron Hubert von R . By the father's death the property came at once immediately into the hands of the son.
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