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Never again for her would there be the austere joys of Dürren her mother's side, her own timid dreams of other companionship, and never the price at which she had lost them. The lean face and the figure clothed in red stand out strikingly from the plain green background, although the painting has suffered not a little injury.
The fact is that the King's very cruelty to this poor girl torn from her mother's side and her Protestant home in Dürren to be the pawn of an unscrupulous diplomacy was based on grounds, at least, less infamous than that of a slave-buyer.
There can be no better illustration than is furnished by this terrible scene of the magic power of mythology to invest the simplest physical phenomena with the most intense human interest; for the true significance of the whole picture is contained in the father's address to his child, "Sei ruhig, bleibe ruhig, mein Kind; In durren Blattern sauselt der Wind."
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