The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-08

nothing except SIN; and thinking can
not .be.done without time"
ga This would be sin-a great sin p
Linda, you are very wicked"
s'Of course am wicked !"
Herr Steinmarc is a most re-
spectacle man. There is no man in
all Nuremberg more respected than
Herr Steinmarc. This was doubtless
Madame Staubach's opinion of Peter
Steinmarc. but 1t may be. that Mad
anne Staubach was not qualified to ex-
press the opinion of the city in gen.
eral on that subject. He holds the
Office which your father held before
him, and for many years has inhabit-
ed the best rooms In yolr father 5
house."
& He is welcome to the rooms if he
wants them, said Linda. I" He is
welcome to the whole house if you
choose to give it to him.
"That is nonsense. Linda. Herr
Steinmarc wants nothing that is not
his of right.
8 | am not his Of right, said Linda.
Will you listen to me? You are
much mistaken if you think that it is
because of your trumpery house that
this honest man wishes to make you
his wife" We must suppose that
Madame Staubach suffered some
qualm of conscience as she proffered
this assurance, and that she repented
afterwards of the sin she committed
in making statement which she
could hardly herself have believed to
be exactly true. He knew your
father before you were born, and
your mother and he has known me
for many years. Has he not lived
with us ever since you can remem-
ber?" s ssss
I :. Yes" said Linda; L remember
him ever since I was a very little girl
as long as | can remember anything
and he seemed to be as old then as
he is now"
And why should he not be old?
Why should you want husband to
be young and foolish and headstrong
as you are yourself perhaps some
one who would drink and gamble and
go about after strange women?"
don't want any man for hus-
band" said Linda
'sThere can be nothing more proper
than that Herr Steinmarc should
make you his wife. He has spoken
to me, aud he is willing to undertake
the charge.
1.-The charged" almost screamed
Linda, in terrible disgust.
+" He is willing to undertake the
charge, I say. We shall then still
live together, and may hope to main
tain God fearing household, in
which there may be as little opening
to the temptations of the world as
may be found in any well ordered
house"
. [ do not believe that Peter Stein
marc is a Go&fearing man.
Lindas you are very wicked to
say so"
difference
Linda Z"
II only know that he loves his
money better than anything in the
world, and that he never gives
kreutzer to any one, and that he
won t subscribe to the hospital, and
he always thinks that Tetchen takes
his wine. though Tetchen never
touches a drop.
I g When he has wife she will look
after these things"
will never look after them, said
Linda.
The conversation was brought to
an end as soon after this as Madame
Staubach was able to close it. She
had done all that she had intended
to do, and had done it with as much
of good result as. she had expected
She had probably not thought that
Linda would be quite so fierce as she
had shown herself; but she had ex-
pected tears, and more of despair,
and clearer protestation of AFFECT
misery In the proposed marriage.
Linda's miRd would now be flied
with the idea, and probably she
might BY degrees reconcile herself to
it, and learn to think that Peter was
not SO very old man, At any rate,
it would now be for Peter himself to |
carry on the battle.
Linda, as soon as she was alone, sat
down with her hands before her and
with her eyes fixed, gazing on vacan-
cy, in order that she might realize to
herself the thing proposed to her.
She had said very little to her aunt
of the nature of the misery which
such marriage seemed to offer her
mot because her Imagination made
for her no clear picture on the sub
iect, not because she did not foresees
Wretchedness in such a
union. The picture of such wretch
edness had beensvery palpable to her
She thought that no consideration |
on earth would induce her to
take that mean faced old man to |
her breast as her husband, her
lord-as the one being whom she was
to love beyond everybody else In this |