A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 27: what you’re looking at

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ee A SERVANT OF SATAN. 7 1y it was more than ever necessary that their true relationship should remain a secret, and accordingly Rose took up her residence under an assumed name at the solitary inn of the village where Frederick was quartered. Every moment that he could spare from his military duties he spent with her, and it is scarcely necessary to state that their apparently questionable relations were soon the talk of the whole place. The person, however, who felt herself the most aggrieved by the presence of Rose in the village was the colonel’s wife, who was profoundly indignant that the ‘‘ woman” of a mere - lieutenant should presume to cover herself with costly furs and wear magnificent diamonds, whereas she—good lady— was forced to content herself with cloaks lined with rab- bit-skin and a total absence of jewelry. Morning, noon, and night she assailed her lord and master on the subject, and to such a pitch of irritation she had brought him by her yituperations that, when at the end of a week he finally decided to summon Count von Waldberg to his presence, he was in a frame of mind bordering on frenzy. ‘Your conduct, sir, is a scandal and a disgrace to the regiment,” was the greeting which he offered to the young lieutenant, as the latter stepped into his room. ‘* You ap- pear to be lost to all sense of decency and shame.” Frederick, pale to the very lips, stepped rapidly forward and looked his chief defiantly in the face, exclaiming as he did so: . ‘*T am at a loss to understand, colonel, in what manner I have merited such a torrent of abuse.” Be ‘¢You know perfectly well to what’ I am alluding,” re- torted the colonel. ‘‘ How dare you bring that infernal woman to this place, and install her right under our very nose here at the inn? I don’t intend to have any of these Berlin ways here. If you can’t do without her, have the good taste, at least, to keep her at Biala, where there are houses for women of that class.” . . comicbooks:com |