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Updated: June 17, 2025
The death of the woman below had moved her deeply, for the wonderful charm of Florette's manner had won her also. Towards midnight Ulrich took the lamp and went upstairs. He had long since forgotten to spare others, by denying himself a wish. The knocking at the door and the passing to and fro in the entry had kept Frau Geel awake.
But it no longer stood in the old place the owner of the house, a rich matron, who had been compelled to occupy an attic-room, while strangers were quartered in her residence, had taken charge of the pale orphan and the boxes after Florette's death. The good Netherland dame provided for the adopted child and the property of her enemy, the man whose soldiers had pillaged her brothers and cousins.
They would learn to balance themselves on chairs tilted on two legs on the trapeze, or Florette would hang by only one hand, or she would support her partner by a strap held in her teeth. Sometimes Florette's risks were great enough to thrill the audience with the thought of death. The thought of a slip, broken bones, delighted the safe people in comfortable chairs. They laughed.
The others now attacked him and dragged him to their master's castle, where he lay imprisoned for six months. At last he was brought before the count, who restored him to liberty "for the sake of Florette's beautiful eyes." Years had passed since then, during which Adam had lived a quiet, industrious life in the Richtberg with his son.
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