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I was always fascinated by these beautiful brown-backed rolls in the shop-window; whenever I passed before the confectionery window, the pleasant warm bread-odors just invited me in: until at last I deserted my trade, and joined Father Fromm. At that time my moustache and beard were already sprouting, but I have never regretted my determination.
I hastened down into the street, where Father Fromm was already trying very excitedly to turn the leather curtain that was fastened round the coach.... No, not "some one!" the whole family was here! All who had remained at home. Mother, grandmother, and the Fromms' Fanny. Actually mother had come: poor mother! We had to lift her from the carriage: she was utterly broken down.
Then followed a rapid succession of small and large doors, so that when we came out upon the balconied corridor, and I gazed down into the deep, narrow courtyard, I could not at all imagine how I had reached that point, and still less how I could ever find my way out. It seemed they had expected us earlier. Two women were seated at the window, Mrs. Fromm and her mother. Mrs.
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