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I hastened down into the street, where Father Fromm was already trying very excitedly to turn the leather curtain that was fastened round the coach.... No, not "some one!" the whole family was here! All who had remained at home. Mother, grandmother, and the Fromms' Fanny. Actually mother had come: poor mother! We had to lift her from the carriage: she was utterly broken down.
Father Fromm hurriedly sent Henrik for a cab. Not a soul asked us where we were going. Everyone wondered, where, and why? What purpose? But, only I knew what would be the end of to-day's journey. I did not distress myself about it. I waited merely until my turn should come. I knew nothing could happen without me. The cab was there, and the Fromms led mother down the steps.
Finally the end came to this, as to every good thing; my cousin Melanie was not quite "up" in the remaining pieces, though I would have listened even to half-learned pieces, but my grandmother was getting ready to return to the Fromms'. The Bálnokházys asked her to spend the night with them, but she replied that she had been there before, and that I was there too; and she would remain with the younger.
Then she turned to Fanny, embraced her, kissed her forehead twice, and said to the Fromms, "You will agree, will you not, to Fanny's staying a little longer with me? She is already like a child of my own." I was no longer jealous of Fanny. I saw how happy she made mother, if she could embrace her.
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