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Updated: May 28, 2025
But a dumb niece with unwashed ears struck me as a most depressing object. They were given places at the head of the table. For a moment we all looked at one another with an eena-deena-dina-do expression. Then the Frau Oberregierungsrat: "I hope you are not tired after your journey." "No," said the sister of the Baroness, smiling into her cup.
He looked forlorn, his feet slipped in his sandals. I found myself pitying the Baron. That evening a party of us were gathered in the salon discussing the day's "kur" with feverish animation. The Frau Oberregierungsrat sat by me knitting a shawl for her youngest of nine daughters, who was in that very interesting, frail condition... "But it is bound to be quite satisfactory," she said to me.
"Mahlzeit!" "Mahlzeit!" I closed the door after me. "Who is he?" I said. "And why does he sit always alone, with his back to us, too?" "Ah!" whispered the Frau Oberregierungsrat, "he is a BARON." She looked at me very solemnly, and yet with the slightest possible contempt a "fancy-not-recognising-that-at-the-first-glance" expression. "But, poor soul, he cannot help it," I said.
"Yes, indeed, something homelike" the Frau Oberregierungsrat patted my hand "and of no possible significance to you." I felt a little crushed. Not at the prospect of losing that vision of diamonds and blue velvet bust, but at the tone placing me outside the pale branding me as a foreigner. We dissipated the day in valid speculations.
Surely he will honour the Frau Oberregierungsrat of the Frau Feldleutnantswitwe ONCE before he goes." In the evening of that day it rained heavily. I went to the post office, and as I stood on the steps, umbrellaless, hesitating before plunging into the slushy road, a little, hesitating voice seemed to come from under my elbow. I looked down.
When we arrived at the pension there was very nearly an open riot. I ran half way up the stairs, and thanked the Baron audibly from the landing. He distinctly replied: "Not at all!" It was very friendly of the Herr Oberlehrer to have sent me a bouquet that evening, and the Frau Oberregierungsrat asked me for my pattern of a baby's bonnet! Next day the Baron was gone.
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