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Updated: May 6, 2025
Of course, in spite of all precautions, it could not but be that her reputation suffered. The daughter of the county-physician began to avoid her, the wives of social equals followed suit. But no one dared accuse her of improper relations with any of her adorers.
And while the summer wind played with the green fruit on the boughs and the white herons spread their gleaming wings over the river, she thought out a plan the first of many by which she meant to rivet her beloved for life. On the same afternoon she asked her father's permission to invite the daughter of the county-physician to visit her.
She steeled every nerve and had herself carried to the house of the county-physician whose daughter was now tenderly attached to her. There she gave birth to a girl child which announced its equivocal arrival in this world lustily. The old doctor, into whose house this confusion had suddenly come, stood by her bed-side, smiling good-naturedly.
It wasn't to be done, he assured her, with the best will in the world. There was an investigation in which he had to help the county-physician. A small farmer had died suddenly of what did not seem an entirely natural death. "I suppose," he continued, "one of those love philtres was used with which superfluous people are put under ground there.
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