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“Daniel,” he replied with a subtle smile, “is as faithful
to you now and forever as your own right hand.”
“Then will you help me? Can you get me a—a coach
and coachman who is to be trusted, the instant I give the
word?”
“Indeed and indeed I can. In less than an hour from the
moment you give the word the coach shall hold in Herman
Plumber’s meadow hard by the old shed. You may depend
on me, your ladyship.”
Marie stood still a moment and seemed to consider. “I
will see you again,” she said, nodded kindly to Magnille,
and left them.
“Is she not the treasure house of all beauties, Magnille?”
cried Daniel, gazing rapturously up the walk where she had
vanished. “And so peerless in her pride!” he went on
triumphantly. “Ah, she would spurn me with her foot,
scornfully set her foot on my neck, and softly tread me down in
the deepest dust, if she knew how boldly Daniel dares dream
of her person—So consuming beautiful and glorious! My
heart burned in me with pity to think that she had to confide
in me, to bend the majestic palm of her pride— But there’s
ecstasy in that sentiment, Magnille, heavenly bliss,
Magnilchen!”
And they tottered off together.
The coming of Daniel and his sister to Frederiksborg
had happened in this wise. After the meeting in the
Bide-a-Wee Tavern, poor Hop-o’-my-Thumb had been seized
with an insane passion for Marie. It was a pathetic,
fantastic love, that hoped nothing, asked nothing, and craved
nothing but barren dreams. No more at all. The bit of reality
that he needed to give his dreams a faint color of life he
found fully in occasional glimpses of her near by or flitting
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