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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Why, Frauchen," I said to the woman at the tub, "so many of you at home to-day? Are you all ill?" There was hardly standing room for an extra person, and the room was full of steam. "They have all got the cough I had," she answered, without looking up, "and Lotte there is very bad." I took Lotte's rough little hand so different from the delicate face and found she was in a fever.
'But wearing a widow's cap won't lessen her fortune, said Charlotte. 'Or increase it, said Madeline. 'Then why on earth does she do it? 'But Lotte's object is to make her put it off, said Bertie. 'If it be true that she has got twelve hundred a year quite at her own disposal, and she be not utterly vulgar in her manners, I would advise you to marry her.
"But wearing a widow's cap won't lessen her fortune," said Charlotte. "Or increase it," said Madeline. "Then why on earth does she do it?" "But Lotte's object is to make her put it off," said Bertie. "If it be true that she has got twelve hundred a year quite at her own disposal, and she be not utterly vulgar in her manners, I would advise you to marry her.
The perplexed father sets at work with the tools of common sense and rational argument. He urges Karl to break with Lotte for his career's sake. The irresolute and dutiful Karl consents, saying nothing of Lotte's approaching motherhood, and the rumor of his intended marriage to the countess is spread abroad.
To this Frau von Wolzogen sent some sort of soothing reply, hinting at the same time that she, the mother, would not interfere with her daughter's choice. So Schiller resolved to stand his ground. The ladies arrived in the latter part of May and soon thereafter he was given to understand that Lotte's affections were fixed upon the other man.
The wash-tub, though in the middle of the room, was quite close to Lotte's bed, because the middle of the room was quite close to every other part of it, and each extra hard maternal thump must have hit the child's head like a blow from a hammer. She was, you see, only thirteen, and her skin had not had time to turn into leather. "Has this child eaten anything to-day?" "She won't."
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