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Updated: June 5, 2025
Thus it will be all day as it was yesterday; and, in the evening, one window after another will be lighted up in the drawing-rooms. Through the white curtains may be seen the gleam of an astral-lamp, like a fixed star. In the basement rooms, the work of the kitchen going forward; in the upper chambers, here and there a light.
She was walking back and forth, staring with unseeing eyes at the confusion of the room chairs pulled out from their accustomed places; two card-tables with a litter of cards and counters; the astral-lamp burning low on the rosewood table that was cluttered with old daguerreotypes belonging to the house.
"It is the Professor Weyse," said the servant, and Otto opened the door softly, without knocking. The astral-lamp burnt upon the table; upon the sofa sat two young ladies.
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