I was not so unreasonable as to be prejudiced against the duke's keeper
because he disliked my complexion; and if I had been, his most civil and
obliging conduct (as it seemed to me to be) next morning would have disarmed
me. Hearing that I was bound for Strelsau, he came to see me while I was
breakfasting, and told me that a sister of his who had married a well-to-do
tradesman and lived in the capital, had invited him to occupy a room in her
house. He had gladly accepted, but now found that his duties would not permit
of his absence. He begged therefore that, if such humble (though, as he added,
clean and comfortable) lodgings would satisfy me, I would take his place. He
pledged his sister's acquiescence, and urged the inconvenience and crowding to
which I should be subject in my journeys to and from Strelsau the next day. I
accepted his offer without a moment's hesitation, and he went off to telegraph
to his sister, while I packed up and prepared to take the next train. But I
still hankered after the forest and
the hunting-lodge, and when my little maid told me that I could, by walking ten
miles or so through the forest, hit the railway at a roadside station, I
decided to send my luggage direct to the address which Johann had given, take
my walk, and follow to Strelsau myself. Johann had gone off and was not aware
of the change in my plans; but, as its only effect was to delay my arrival at
his sister's for a few hours, there was no reason for troubling to inform him
of it. Doubtless the good lady would waste no anxiety on my account.
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