Page:Wallenstein, a drama in 2 parts - Schiller (tr. Coleridge) (1800).djvu/98

76 A few hours more, and you will find a father, Will see yourself surrounded by new friends, And I henceforth shall be but as a stranger, Lost in the many—"Speak with my Aunt Tertsky!" With hurrying voice she interrupted me. She faulter'd. I beheld a glowing red Possess her beautiful cheeks, and from the ground Rais'd slowly up her eye met mine—no longer Did I controul myself. With instant boldness I caught her in my arms, my mouth touch'd her's; There was a rustling in the room close by; It parted us—'Twas you. What since has happened, You know.

(after a pause, with a stolen glance at Thekla.) And is it your excess of modesty; Or are you so incurious, that you do not Ask me too of my secret?

Of your secret?

Why, yes! When in the instant after you I stepp'd into the room, and found my niece there, What she in this first moment of the heart Ta'en with surprise—

Well?

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