Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-08-05
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wish our future life together to be
spent" ne began. "Of course | expect
no consideration from you, you have
never given me occasion to expect It;
but do require that at least you
observe an apparent propriety. we
will therefore take our regular meals
together; excuse on the plea OF head-
ache. and so forth, which sufficed for
your kind mother, will not be accepted
by me- You will take your walks
under my guidance; you may receive
your friends, your mothers rooms are
at your service; you may, too, return
these calls-but the Independent,
hasty fulfillment of whatsoever enters
your head, must cease, my dear An
neliese, as long as you are under my
protection Moreover"
I looked at him from head to foot
he wanted to give me orders!
He turned a shade paler.
Moreover, do not fear" he went on,
chat I shall ever again attempt to
obtain for you a future free from care.
When you are of age, you can bestow
upon whomsoever you wish, both your
hand and your heart, unless you
prefer to earn your bread as a
governess-in poverty. But as long
as I have any duties towards you, |
must ask obedience. Howsoever, we
need have no unpleasantness about it.!
It is always we'll to know what ground
one is on" He laughed as he
formerly used to after such speeches,
but his laughter had q different ring.
''In order that you may see that the
days to come are not to be SO very
dreadful | will inform you and cousin
that We will spend the Whitsuntide
holidays at the MILL still say at
the mill'-which, of course means the
villa. Cousin may sit down and in
vite thither Herr Nordmann in my
name. 1t is ridiculous to keep up
this ill-feeling-it was a silly, boyish
trick, his running away. What did
you say, Anneliese?" he interrupted
himself.
I had said nothing, but had simply
laughed Historically at my step
fathers impertinence. Cousin stood
beside the table, with bowed head, in
silence
"You laughed? It is laughable for
one to allow oneself to be talked over;
but one becomes softened, one be-
comes like wax when one has ex-
perienced a great sorrow, when one
has given dying wife a promise
which has been exacted as a last
proof of love. 1t concerned you and
the boy-do you understand"
He clumsily attempted to pinch my
ear; rudely pushed back his akward
hand. ''You either think me idiotic
Or" 49,
terribly in love-" he completed
loosely, as I hesitated, winking at
me. my dear Anneliese, people do
not kiss each other in a sleigh on a
dark winter morning, if one is not
deeply in love-at least you would not
do this, and kiss man whom you did
not intend to marry"
I was speechless and felt my face
flush crimson. Confused, astonished,
incapable of a word I stood there.
My sweet, my sacred secret in the
possession of this man!
II will not intrude upon you any
longer" said he then, a peculiar ex-
preston Of triumph in his voice.
''Good-evening, dear Anneliese!"
When the door closed behind him, I
buried my face in both hands; wild
indignation possessed me. "You,
you'll cried to cousin, ooh, how could
you do that!'
The old furrowed face was upturned
to mine in infinite perplexity.
''You have betrayed me, me and
him! You are wicked, you are as
wicked as the rest! And do you
know what it was? It was an eternal
farewell and you-?"
'Anneliese, listen to me, dear
A1neliese," lamented the old lady.
ut was on the day before your
mamma died You cannot imagine
what uneasiness she experienced with
regard to you. She summoned me
that morning to her bedside and i'm
No and to adhere to it, if Wollmeyer
should urge Brankwitz upon you. |
saw how worried she was, and I COM
forted her thus: DO not fear, madame,
Anneliese is in safe-keeping, so to
speak; Annoliese has already found
the one who loves her And I told
her: thus and thus, madame, a blind
man could have felt how congenial
they were. She shook her head in
credulously and said, if it were SO,
Anneliese would have confessed it TO
her. Madame, I told her, L saw
them kiss and I described to her how
it had happened and what a true.
honest soul he is, and that, to be sure,
many obstacles would have to be
surmounted, before matters went any
further. Wollmeyer must have heard
all this from mamma"
Il do not understand you, cousin" I
interrupted, with q shake of the head,
''fCr you must have known"