dread of a painful situation. She therefore made up the mind without deliberating long, and said decidedly—
“I’ll go myself; and you, Jenny, take good care of my brother in the mean time. Mamma and all our family will never forget it to you.”
These words sobered Jenny at once from the intoxication of happy feelings she had given way to—the happiest she had ever experienced in her life.
She thought at that moment of her aunt Knír̓ová, and answered the baroness coldly and politely.
“Then go, if you will, and please be as quick as possible. But be careful of yourself at the same time and do not cause the lady-baroness more anxiety. She will have enough trouble already from this unfortunate accident. I shall do what I can for the baron in your absence.”
Sály paused at this speech. It was not so much the words themselves, as the tone in which they had been spoken, that she did not quite relish; but she said nothing, and went to fetch her hat and parasol. When she came back with them, she said, passing by Jenny and her brother, “I shall send help as soon as possible.” And she went off at a much quicker pace than was her usual habit, in the direction of Labutín.
