The Two Contesses - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... know. I want to know what you are thinking, what dreams you are allowing yourself to indulge in! Do you know that for some time past you are quite altered?" I felt myself growing more and more downhearted. "How altered, Elizabeth?" "Oh," she said, "do not let us waste time in fencing. The manner in which you distinguish Schwarzburg is the subject of general remark. You make your almost veneration of him so ostentatiously apparent." "I do not make it ostentatiously apparent; I only do not conceal it." "And what is it to lead to?" "It will lead to nothing," I answered dejectedly. "In a few weeks he goes to Bosnia; and I to Trostburg." Shrugging her shoulders, she made a few steps forward, then sat down on the chair before my writing-table. The volume with "My Memoirs" written large upon it attracted her attention; her face relaxed its grave expression, and she began to laugh. "So the child has taken to writing her 'Memoirs'; here are all the secrets--one need only to look in and find them all laid bare. Do not look so frightened. I am curious, but not indiscreet." While her words were sarcastic, her great blue eyes were so sincere, were looking at me with such a depth of love and sympathy, that, taking courage, I went up to her and said: "You asked me, what I want. I will confess to you what I do not want; I will not marry Count Taxen." "Bravo, that is good," she answered, phlegmatically. "And what about the Count, who purposes either to-day or to-morrow to make formal proposal for your hand?" In deadly fear, I cried: "How do you know this?" "From himself." "And does he not see how utterly indifferent he is to me?" "No. That would be the last thing he would be likely to,, see. "And how much more, how unspeakably more, I prefer another to him?" "That still le...