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Chapter IV In which the Prince Collects Opinions by the Way
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A LITTLE before noon Otto, by a triumph of manoeuvring, effected his escape. He was quit in this way of the ponderous1 gratitude2 of Mr. Killian, and of the confidential3 gratitude of poor Ottilia; but of Fritz he was not quit so readily. That young politician, brimming with mysterious glances, offered to lend his convoy4 as far as to the high-road; and Otto, in fear of some residuary jealousy5 and for the girl’s sake, had not the courage to gainsay6 him; but he regarded his companion with uneasy glances, and devoutly7 wished the business at an end. For some time Fritz walked by the mare8 in silence; and they had already traversed more than half the proposed distance when, with something of a blush, he looked up and opened fire.
‘Are you not,’ he asked, ‘what they call a socialist9?’
‘Why, no,’ returned Otto, ‘not precisely10 what they call so. Why do you ask?’
‘I will tell you why,’ said the young man. ‘I saw from the first that you were a red progressional, and nothing but the fear of old Killian kept you back. And there, sir, you were right: old men are always cowards. But nowadays, you see, there are so many groups: you can never tell how far the likeliest kind of man may be prepared to go; and I was never sure you were one of the strong thinkers, till you hinted about women and free love.’
‘Indeed,’ cried Otto, ‘I never said a word of such a thing.’
‘Not you!’ cried Fritz. ‘Never a word to compromise! You was sowing seed: ground-bait, our president calls it. But it’s hard to deceive me, for I know all the
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conspiracies
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