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And for her years of service he had given her contempt. He reflected, too, that he had, perhaps, made an enemy where he needed a friend. How easy, by innuendo and suggestion, to turn Hedwig against him, Hedwig who already fancied herself interested elsewhere.
Nino is an example; for he was but a boy, yet he acted like a man; a gifted artist in a great city, courted by the noblest, yet he kept his faith. But when I have taken breath I will tell you what he and Hedwig said to each other at the gate, and whether at the last she went with him, or stayed in dismal Fillettino for her father's sake.
In the doorway she stood a moment, smoothing the folds of her apron, but this time she did not look around. "Did you get the letter on the desk, mein Fraulein? I thought maybe you did not know it there was." "Yes, thank you. I saw it. Good-night, Hedwig. And, Hedwig, wake me to-morrow at seven, will you? I have so much I want to do."
The boy was in her hands. There was left only to deliver him to those who, even now, were on the way. Nikky was safe. He would wait in her boudoir, and Hedwig would not come. She had sent no message. She was, indeed, at that moment a part of one of those melancholy family groups which, the world over, in palace or peasant's hut, await the coming of death. Prince Ferdinand William Otto chatted.
Unless Hedwig repeated what had happened between Clemenceau and Antonino, how could the colonel know of their conversation? Hesitating to question her directly, disliking her from that moment, and feeling her heart shrink at her loneliness when such crushing odds were threatening her, she donned her "company smile" and went to the sitting-room bravely.
That afternoon, in the study, Nikky hesitated when he saw Hedwig. Then he came and bent low over her hand. And Hedwig, because every instinct yearned to touch his shining, bent head, spoke to him very calmly, was rather distant, a little cold. "You have been away, I think?" she said. "For a day or two, Highness." The Crown Prince put a small napkin around the handle of the silver teapot.
That, and the person for whom he acted However, I sent for you for another reason. What is this about the Princess Hedwig?" "The Princess Hedwig!" "What folly, boy! A young girl who cannot know her own mind! And for such a bit of romantic trifling you would ruin yourself. It is ruin. You know that." "I am sorry," Nikky said simply. "As far as my career goes, it does not matter.
Minna did not remain long a prisoner in her own room, feeding upon pumpernickel and water and bitter thoughts. Aunt Hedwig and Herr Sohnstein succeeded in putting a stop to that cruelty.
It was very reasonable of him to think so. "Have any of the papers got hold of the story of your giving lessons?" "No, I think not; and there is no mention of the Lira family." "So much the better." Hedwig did not go to the opera. Of course she was quite right. However she might feel about the baroness, it would have been in the worst possible taste to go to the opera the very day after her death.
Here, again, the good qualities of Aunt Hedwig came to the front, for to her intelligent direction was due the rather surprising success that attended Roschen's ambitious attempt to become so early a hausfrau.
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