The Opposite House: A Novel — page 259: what you’re looking at

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254 The Opposite Flouse. Austrian, who had given him a languishing glance as she danced past him. Marie looked hopelessly at Gerrald. “T don’t understand,” she said, clasping her hands anxiously. ‘Tell me, Herr Gerrald, what does all this mean ?” A radiant smile brightened the face of the young mill-owner. | “ T see that there must be some mistake here,” he said, with quickened breath. ‘Count Raven came to me and asked, in your name, a release from the engagement to dance the german, which you had given too hastily. So that was not true? You did not send your cousin ?”’ “Good heavens!” she exclaimed, in horror. ‘I knew nothing atall about it.” And trembling with indignation, she turned to Count Hasso. “ How could you have made such a mistake? How did you venture to arrange in my name matters concern- ing which I never had athought of consulting you?” Hasso threw back his head and measured Gerrald with a look of the most insulting arrogance. “Because, Marie, I might suppose that you would prefer to dance with Count Raven rather than with Herr Gerrald, the mill-owner.”’ And tearing a handful of green needles from one of the trees, he tossed it scornfully on the shining floor. Comicbooks.c© S|