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The rich banker Ebenstreit will leave this house, no longer his own, to enter the debtor's prison poor as a beggar nay, worse, a defrauder!" "Oh, how cruel you are!" groaned Ebenstreit. "Did you say, baroness, that this house is no longer his?" asked Splittgerber, alarmed. "No," she triumphantly cried. "It belongs to me, and all that is in it the pictures, statues, silver, diamonds, and pearls.
The name of Werrig-Leuthen is well worthy to be preserved, and be an example to succeeding generations. I give my permission for Ludwig Ebenstreit, banker, to marry your daughter and only child, and " Marie uttered a cry of horror, and sprang from her seat. "Mother! "Be still! I commanded you not to interrupt me, but listen, with becoming respect, to the end, to the words' of his majesty."
Oft will I come here in the night when those sleep who think me so proud and happy, and you alone shall behold me as I am. Now I must back to purgatory. Farewell!" A half hour later a splendid carriage drove from the house of Herr Ebenstreit von Leuthen.
If you drive quickly, there is a louis d'or for you." "I will drive as if the devil were after me, sir!" shouted the postilion, and turned to gallop off, when Ebenstreit ordered him to halt, and Leberecht to get up on the box. Then turning to the officers, "Gentlemen," said he, proudly, "you are witnesses to the ill-treatment and insults of this woman-stealer.
"Very well, I will go, and promise you never to return, upon two conditions." "Have the goodness to communicate them," said Ebenstreit. "The first is, pay the gambling-debt of my husband, who has played away the entire sum you allow us yearly, and do not deduct it from our income. The second is, increase your allowance five hundred thalers, without letting the general know it, and pay it to me."
"I wish to be paid my wages, my two hundred thalers, that I have honestly earned, and I will have them." Ebenstreit took a piece of paper from his pocket. Writing a few lines with a pencil, he laid it upon the table. "If you will take this to my cashier after the ceremony to-morrow, he will pay you four hundred thalers." "Four hundred thalers in cash," cried Trude, joyfully clapping her hands.
I challenged him to fight a duel, but the coward refused me satisfaction, and then I struck him in the face, causing the blood to flow. Answer me are you this gentleman?" Not a sound interrupted the fearfully long pause which followed. Every one turned astonished to Ebenstreit, who, pale as death, was powerless to utter a word, but stood staring at his opponent.
"No, not all," continued Ebenstreit, slightly inclining; "you added, 'My daughter loves a beggar, a poor school-master, and she entertains the romantic idea of marrying him." "And what did you reply?" asked Marie, almost breathless.
"He shall not thank me!" she whispered. "He shall live and if he can be happy! this is all that I ask for! What is there further to be done?" "To announce to your parents in my presence that you will marry Herr Ebenstreit, and let the ceremony take place as soon as possible." "You swear that he shall then be released?
"This has been a lucky night," said he; "we have all done a good business, but I am the most fortunate, with my three thousand thalers and a fine place. I wish he had waited an hour later, and then I should have had another thousand!" Ebenstreit sat with triumphant smile also, by his betrothed.
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