Full resolution (TIFF) - On this page / på denna sida - Chapter IX. The lieutenant-colonel takes his measures.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
#HE SKJUTS-BOY. 79
twelve or thirteen toiles, when you might bave done if in three ?
I thought we were to go to Gustavsborg."
"Yes, dear wife; but you believe too much #vhich you ought
hot fo believe untfl I bave told you my opinion about if. In short,
ve shall go fo Stroemstad; that place is for the l#resent the most
fashionable. If was only last night that three carriages #vent
there, #11 filled with people of ton."
"Well, I should think there would be no want of such people
af Gustavsborg, and for that reason I thought–"
"tte#r, dear Sophia, and spare me your opinions; we shall go
fo Stroemstad, ai #11 events, tiare you no# yet seen anything
of Borgenstierna #."
"Ite h#s just been here, and taken his leave," sald Amelia;
"and presented his compliments fo yotL"
"What ! taken leave! he must have been in a hurry. Where
is he going#"
"l=[e did hOt s#y .-#here."
"Ahem! I almost think that I should bave ruade him a visit
in retur-n. If is true he bas no title, and I do hot know even
who he is # but we are here in a public-bouse, where such conde-
scension does hOt amount to much, with a man of my rank–"
"Yes, my dcar," interrupted his wffe, "I believe that he was
a nobleman as well as you."
"_& nobleman !" replied the lieutenant-colonel, with a contemp-
tuous stalle. "Yes, inasmuch as he bears the naine of one who
bas something noble in him; and may be so, in fact. But where
is his family# where are his connexions? /gobody knows them.
Where are his estates # #o one knows where they are–st leazt,
I do hOt. In short, we would hot bave been able to cultivate
his acquaintance ai the bath any longer, unless he should corne
out by the side of his friends, whose intercourse with him would
guarantee him ;. and ff he should prove himself a wealthy man,
with whom a naine wotfld be of no accomxt, if it only sounds
well, then–-"
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
