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"Not at all, my dear lady, not at all! I saw you from the street; I recognized you by your walk." He spoke in a very loud tone, and Bertha almost involuntarily murmured: "Hush!" A mocking smile at once made its appearance on Klingemann's face. "He won't wake up," he muttered, between his clenched teeth.
On that evening she began at once by striking those chords, somewhat more softly than usual; then she essayed various modulations and, as she made the last triad resound for a long time by means of the pedal her hands were now lying in her lap she felt a gentle joy in the melodies which were hovering, as it were, about her. Then Klingemann's observation recurred to her.
"If I don't happen to be passing your open window when you are at the piano " Bertha noticed that he kept on edging nearer to her, and that his arm was touching hers. Involuntarily she moved away. Suddenly she felt herself seized from behind, her head pulled back over the bench and a hand clasped over her eyes. For a moment she thought that it was Klingemann's hand, which she felt upon her lids.
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