When we
meet again, you will see things otherwise. I ask nothing till that
time comes."
This was not the part of his visit of which he told his mother, he
only dwelt on a circumstance so opportune that he had almost been
forgiven even by the Colonel. He had encountered Dr. Hermann, who
had come down to make another attempt on the Gracious Lady, and had
thus found himself in the presence of a very different person. An
opening had offered itself in America, and he had come to try to
obtain his wife's fortune to take them out. The opportunity of
making stringent terms had seemed to Bobus so excellent that he
civilly invited Demetrius to dine and sleep, and sent off a note to
beg his uncle to come and assist in a family compact. Colonel
Brownlow, having happily resisted his impulse to burn the letter
unread as an impertinent proposal for his daughter, found that it
contained so sensible a scheme that he immediately conceived a higher
opinion of his namesake than he had ever had before.
Thus Dr. Hermann found himself face to face with the very last
members of the family he desired to meet, and had to make the best of
the situation. Of secrets of the late Joseph Brownlow he said
nothing, but based his application on the offer of a practice and
lectureship he said he had received from New Orleans.
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