[A Hungarian Nabob by Maurus Jokai]@TWC D-Link bookA Hungarian Nabob CHAPTER IX 33/57
He would find his way to his house on foot, he said. Not very long afterwards Mrs.Meyer found herself once more in the circle of her well-beloved.
Abellino had just looked in, and the girls were wild to know how their mother had fared. It took Mrs.Meyer a good couple of hours to tell them all about her happy adventure: how she had struggled, how much eloquence she had expended till she had compelled the girl to surrender.
For the girl was frightfully modest, she said, and she had to make her believe that the gentleman really meant to make her his wife, and had said so all along. Abellino, in his joy, could scarce restrain himself from embracing the duenna at intervals, during the course of her entertaining narrative, especially when she told him what a splendid picture she had drawn of him to Fanny. Well, let us leave them all making merry together, and accompany Boltay homewards also.
Teresa was already awaiting him in the doorway, for the coachman had arrived first, and told her he was coming.
His first care was to give her the letter. "I have brought you a letter," said he, "but its contents are Greek to me.
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