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The old woman had kept her keenness of vision and, though Barbara tried to avoid her, the little ex-maid stopped her and asked scornfully: "Here in Ratisbon again, sweetheart? How fresh you look after your severe illness! yet you're still on shank's mare, instead of in the gold coach drawn by white horses." Barbara abruptly turned her back upon her and went home.
The old woman had kept her keenness of vision and, though Barbara tried to avoid her, the little ex-maid stopped her and asked scornfully: "Here in Ratisbon again, sweetheart? How fresh you look after your severe illness! yet you're still on shank's mare, instead of in the gold coach drawn by white horses." Barbara abruptly turned her back upon her and went home.
The ex-maid was obliged to bestir herself that Eva might have a few minutes for her sister and Wolff, yet she would fain have spent a much longer time over the long, thick, fair hair, which with increasing pleasure she combed until it flowed in beautiful waving tresses over the rich Florentine stuff of her plain white mourning robe.
This circumstance must be considered, and behind the narrow, wrinkled brow of the old woman, whose cradle had stood in a ducal palace, thronged a succession of thoughts and plans precisely similar to those which had filled the mind of the dressmaker and ex-maid ere she gave Barbara her farewell kiss.
The old woman had kept her keenness of vision and, though Barbara tried to avoid her, the little ex-maid stopped her and asked scornfully: "Here in Ratisbon again, sweetheart? How fresh you look after your severe illness! yet you're still on shank's mare, instead of in the gold coach drawn by white horses." Barbara abruptly turned her back upon her and went home.
The ex-maid knew how to describe, in vivid hues, how all would turn from her if that should happen, and how little the jewels with which he sometimes delighted her would avail. But Barbara had cared only for her lord's love, and it was not even difficult for her to resist the urgency.
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