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away ,, air , you frighten me so * Go away , if you please , sip : oh , dear me !' Tears stood in the eyes of poor Mr * Tusmann . r Oh , just heavens ! cried he , how I am treated ! No , I will not go ; according " to Thomasiug , I ought to 8 top and have justice done to me . ' He advanced towards Albertine , who retired towards Edmund .
The young artist , boiling with rage , could contain himself no longer . He rushed upon the private secretary , passed a brushy impregnated with green paint , two or three times over his face , handed him to the open door , applied his foot to the western side of Mr . Tusmann , and projected him down the stairs . The councillor , who was just then mounting up , received his verdant old schoolfellow in his arms .
€ My dear friend , in the name of goodness , what has happened to your face ? ' said the councillor . The private secretary related , in sentences almost unintelligible , the treatment he had experienced from Edmund and Albeitine . The councillor , very angry , led him back into the room . ' What is this I hear ? ' said he , in a severe tone of voice . ' Is it
thus that a young lady ought to treat her intended ?' ' My intendedl' exclaimed Albertine . ' Yes , doubtless , ' answered the councillor , ' your intended . I don ' t know why you should appear so amazed at what I settled long ago . My old schoolfellow is your betrothed , and in a w eek or two we will have a merry wedding /
* Never / cried Albertine ; 4 will never marry him . What marry that old man ! no , never ! ** ' 1 will allow , said the councillor , ' that he is not now a giddy young man > . jbttt , like myself , arrived at years of discretion . He is an upright , modest , learned , amiable person , and , what is more , he Was my schoolfellow at the college of the grey monks . '
* No / said Albertine , beginning to cry , ' it never shall be ; I hate him ! I detest him ! oh , my Edmund !' So saying , the young lady fell , almost fainting , into the arms of Edmund , who pressed her to his heart . , The councillor rubbed his eyes , quite stupified . and then endeavoured to part the lovers ; but Edmund vowed to relinquish Albertine only with hia life .
' Thou serpent ! ' said ihe councillor , * have you walked into my house to pounce down upon this dear little lamb ? so you think I will deliver my cherished dove to your ferocious jaws , thou vile dauber , thou scoundrelly good-for-nothing , thou—'
Th « insulta of Mr , Vosswinkel put Edmund quite beside himself ; he seized his maul-stick , and whirling it round his head , would indubitabl y have broken the particularly-much-to-be-© verrated couiiciHor ' ft pate , if , at the very instant , he had not heard the voice of Leonard , thundering out :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/26/
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