When he went to congratulate the happy pair after
the ceremony, Malvine looked at him; a gentle glance, with perhaps a
mild reproach in it. Paul, however, grasped his hand, and whispered
into his ear:
"Your friend for life, Wilhelm, for life."
CHAPTER VII.
SYMPOSIUM.
Paul had hardly returned from his wedding trip to Paris when he
surprised his friends by a series of quite unexpected business
engagements. He gave up his post as lecturer, in spite of the fact
that the appointment as professor for the next six months depended
on it; he left his young wife for three weeks, during which nothing
was heard of him, except an occasional letter bearing the postmarks
of Hamburg, Altona, or Harburg, then he appeared again, and told
Malvine that they were to remove from Berlin, to spend in future a
portion of the year in Hamburg, but to live chiefly on some property
near Harburg. He had decided to leave his academic profession and
become a practical landowner, and accordingly had taken a large
leasehold estate. He gave Wilhelm and Schrotter further particulars
of his plans. The place he had bought was hardly to be called an
estate, but a wild desert bit of moorland called "Friesenmoor,"
growing only a kind of marsh grass.
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