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"And what else did your mistress tell you, Martina?" "Not much, Olaf. She was in a very strange mood last night, and while I combed her hair, which, Olaf, was as tangled as though a man had handled it," and she looked at me till I coloured to the eyes, "and undid her diadem, that was set on it all awry, she spoke to me of marriage." "Of marriage!" I gasped.
"Early in June of the same year, Dewitt C. Dunbar discovered a new lead in the Martina mine which proved to be of such marvelous size and richness, that my father's personal inspection was demanded at the earliest possible moment, to decide on the best methods of pushing forward the new work, and also to determine what part of the old work should be continued.
But why are you looking so sad, Olaf?" "Oh! I know not, save that I find life difficult, and full of pitfalls which it is hard to escape." Martina rested her elbows on the table and her chin upon her little hand, staring me full in the face with her quick eyes that pierced like nails. "Olaf," she said, "your star shines bright above you.
She had not concealed it from Martina, who thought it no less than her duty to stand by the poor lovesick child; for Heliodora had nursed her husband, the senator's nephew, to the end, with touching fidelity and care; and besides, Martina had given the young Egyptian with whom she was "quite in love herself" every opportunity of paying his addresses to the young widow.
Once more Katharina tried to approach Paula; but Martina, whose eyes filled with tears as she looked on the parting, held her back by the shoulder and whispered: "Do not disturb them, child. Such hearts spontaneously attract those for whom they yearn. I, old as I am, would gladly be worthy to be called." The interpreter now sternly insisted on starting.
As I made my fourth journey I caught the sound of a distant tumult, the shouts of war, the screams of agony, and above them all the well-remembered cry of "Valhalla! Valhalla! Victory or Valhalla!" I halted where I was and felt the blood rush into my wasted cheeks. The Northmen, my Northmen, were in the palace! It was at this that Martina had hinted.
It was under his roof, and the auspices of his kindhearted wife Martina, that he made acquaintance with the fair Heliodora, the widow of a nephew of the Senator; and the whole city had been set talking of the tender intimacy Orion had formed with the beautiful young woman whose rigid virtue had hitherto been a subject of admiration no less than her fair hair and the big jewels with which she loved to set off her simple but costly dress.
She would have liked to throttle him; and yet she was glad to think that there was another besides herself and she so elegant and lovely whom he had betrayed. "He will stay!" Heliodora exclaimed as she came out of the room; and Martina held out her hand to the young man, with a fervent: "God bless you for that!"
Remember, I pray you, that you are now a Christian in a Christian land." "I thank you for reminding me of it," I replied; and that moment a chamberlain, entering hurriedly, commanded my presence. "Good luck to you, Olaf," said Martina as I followed him. "Be sure to tell me the news later or to-morrow."
But when, a short time after, he proposed to Barbara's warm advocate to accompany the singer home, Martina preferred to detain him, and invited him to stay in the house with her a little while longer. These incidents had occupied only a brief period, and Dr. Hiltner undertook to escort the young girl himself.
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