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It is Marianne Meier." "What! Marianne Meier?" asked Baron Arnstein. "The celebrated beauty whom Goethe has loved for whom the Swedish ambassador at Berlin, Baron Bernstein, has entertained so glowing a passion, and suffered so much and who is now the mistress of the Austrian minister, the Prince von Reuss?" "Hush, for Heaven's sake, hush!" whispered Fanny. "She is coming toward us."
But Baroness Arnstein was not to be consoled by such proofs of public sympathy; the affliction which had befallen her was too terrible, and she did not endeavor to conceal her grief. She caused the cabinet in which he had seen her on the day preceding his death to be hung in black like a death- room; all the souvenirs and every thing reminding her of him were preserved in this room.
She looked as proud and glorious as a queen, and there was something haughty, imperious, and cold in the glance with which she now slowly and searchingly surveyed the large room. "Tell me," whispered Baron Arnstein, bending over Fanny Itzig, "who is the beautiful lady now standing near the door?" "Oh!" exclaimed Fanny, joyfully, "she has come after all. We scarcely dared to hope for her arrival.
Thugut only perused what he believed to be worth the trouble of being read, and to the remainder he paid no attention whatever. The young Baroness Fanny von Arnstein had just finished her morning toilet and stepped from her dressing-room into her boudoir, in order to take her chocolate there, solitary and alone as ever.
"Baroness Arnstein has no reason whatever to conceal herself," said the baron, coldly and proudly. "As she was not the cause of this quarrel, I do not know why you are constantly dragging her name into it. You behaved here in so unbecoming a manner, that I had to come to the assistance of my steward.
Arnstein," said Fanny, giving him her hand, "I thank you for complying so promptly with my request." "A business man is always prompt," said the young baron, with a polite bow. "Ah, and you treat this interview with me likewise as a business affair?" "Yes, but as a business affair of the rarest and most exquisite character.
I shall rejoin you, perhaps alone, and in that case I shall be free; perhaps, however, Arnstein will accompany me, and in that eventuality he will have accepted the future as I am going to offer it to him. Farewell, sisters; may God protect us all." "May God protect YOU." said Lydia, tenderly embracing her sister. "You have a courageous and strong soul, and I wish mine were like yours."
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