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Later she thawed out, assumed a friendly companionableness to these despised individuals and, in order to raise Niebeldingk's delight to the highest point, admitted with maidenly frankness the indescribable and mysterious attraction toward him which she had felt at the first glance. Of course, her principles were impregnable. He mustn't doubt that.
She would rather seek a moist death in the waves than.... and so forth. Although she made this solemn proclamation over the dessert, the consequence of it all was an intimate visit to Niebeldingk's dwelling which came to a bitter sweet end at three o'clock in the morning with gentle tears concerning the wickedness of men in general and of himself in particular....
"Shame on you," he said, carelessly stroking her hair. "But what do you think? Shall I bring the young fellow?" "You may very well bring him," she answered. There was a look of pain about her mouth. "Doesn't one even train young poodles?" Three days later, at the same hour of the afternoon, the student, Fritz von Ehrenberg entered Niebeldingk's study.
The tame animal stepped with dignity upon his outstretched hand and permitted itself to be lifted into the light.... Its glittering neck-feathers stood up, and while it whetted its beak on Niebeldingk's cuff-links, it repeated in a most subterranean voice: "Richard!" And suddenly the dear feeling of belonging here, of being at home came over Niebeldingk. He had all but lost it.
The latter remained standing for a moment in the door. He grasped Niebeldingk's hand with overflowing friendliness. "My dear baron, you have been so nice to me and so courteous. Permit me, in return, to offer you an old man's counsel: Be more careful about flowers!" "What flowers?" "Well, you sent a great, costly bunch of them. That's what first attracted my sister's attention.
It was an old custom of Niebeldingk's a remnant of his half out-lived Don Juan years to send a bunch of Indian lilies to those women who had granted him their supreme favours. He always sent the flowers next morning. Their symbolism was plain and delicate: In spite of what has taken place you are as lofty and as sacred in my eyes as these pallid, alien flowers whose home is beside the Ganges.
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