The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12

nd she was his wife, Baroness Innstetten. Sitting up she looked around with curiosity. During the evening before she had been too tired to examine very carefully all the half-foreign, half-old

gh, pier-glass, while a little to the right, along the hall wall, towered the tile stove, the door of which, as she had discovered the evening before, opened into the hall in the old-f

stove, from which she inferred that a few new sticks of wood were being shoved in from the hall. Gradually she recalled that Geert had spoken the evening bef

t once. "At your L

e I have overslept mys

t ni

ghtway of her "husband." "His Lordship, he must

Ladyship has slept soundl

is Lordship, is he

endure late sleeping, and when he enters his room across the

lready had h

r Ladyship-H

could, and when she had got up and taken a seat before the pier-glass she resumed the conversation, saying: "Moreover, his Lordship is quite right. Always to be up early was likewise the rule in my parents' home.

, your Ladyship?

gowns with long trains were dragging over the floor, and in my excitement it seemed a few times as thoug

order the better to observe Effi's facial expressions. In reply she said: "Oh, yes, that is up in the social ro

ything unusu

ow that it comes from the curtains. The room is inclined to be musty and damp, and for that reason the windows are always left open, except when there is a storm. And so, as there is nearly always a strong dr

that it gets on one's nerves. And now, Johanna, give me the little cape and put just a little dab of powder on my forehead. Or, better still, take

at the office. But he has been back for a quarter of a

rror and then walked across the hall, which in the daylight lost muc

ver, he did not care to part with, as it was an heirloom. Effi was standing be

ea

say. Of cours

early" had been meant in all seriousness. "You must know from our journey that I have never kept you waiting in the morning. In the course of the day-well, t

? In everything,

ake, Geert, I hadn't given it a single thought, and-why, we have been married for over six weeks, six week

stood across the corner of the sitting room in front of a sofa made just in t

tegone's-you remember, don't you, in Florence, with the view of the cathedral? I must write mama about it. We don't have such coffee in Hohen-Crem

r saw better house-keep

general Wrangel, under whom he had once served as an adjutant, he was very proud of what he had done. But when I see these things here, all our Hohen-Cremmen elegance seems by t

ere they, i

n, and at his back there was a great red silk bolster, which could be seen bulging out to the right and left of him, and the wall behind the Indian prince bristled with swords and daggers an

t know how deeply I feel that and how much I shoul

that. I am only seventeen, you know, a

first, I should like to take you with me. I do not want

our travels you told me all sorts of queer things about the city and the country, but not a word about how we shall live here. That here nothing is the same as in Hohen-Cremmen and Schw

pointments. We have in the neighborhood a few noble families with which

among three thousand people there certainly must be, beside such inferior individuals

judge and a school principal and a commander of pilots, and of such people in official positions I presume there may be as many as a dozen

y are very high and grand, and, I might almost say, awe-inspiring individuals. Consuls,

. Those men are

uls are also men of very high rank and au

him and are content to handle sugar and coffee, or open a c

possi

rvice to some Dutch or Portuguese vessel, they are likely in the end to become accredited representatives of such foreign states, and so we have just as many consuls in Kessin as we have ambassadors and envoys in Berlin. Then whenever there is a

just the black and white, with perhaps a bit of red here and there, but that is not to be compared with the world of flags you speak of. Generally speaking, I find over and over again, as I have already said, that everything here has a certain foreign air about it, and I have not yet seen or hea

I congratulate

room with its long curtains,

, do you know a

ike music, too. But all very quiet. I told Johanna about it this morning, merely in order to excuse myself for sleeping so long afterwards. She told me that it came from the long curtains up in the social ro

n the chimney, or a worm in the wood, or a polecat. For we have polecats here. But, in any case, before we undertake any changes you must first examine our whole house, under my guidance; that goes without saying. We can do it in a quarter of an hour. Then you make your toilette, dress up just a little bit, for in reality you are most charming as you are now. You must get ready for our fr