"And I have some of her music."
They shuddered at the thought of possessing articles which had once been hers, and determined that everything should be sent to her brother.
"I passed her rooms, early this morning," said Princess Angelica's maid of honor--she always seemed as if half-frozen, and rubbed her hands and breathed on her fingertips while she spoke--"the windows were open. I saw the lonely parrot in his cage, and he kept calling out, 'God keep you, Irma.' It was dreadful."
They all shuddered, and yet they felt a secret satisfaction in dwelling on the subject. The pious court lady joined the circle, and mentioned that Doctor Sixtus had just taken leave of her, that he had started for the Highlands, that Fein, the notary, had accompanied him, that he had also taken Baum along, and that they meant to search for the body of Countess Irma.
"Will he bring her here, or to Wildenort castle?"
"How terrible, to be gaped at in death by common people!"
"Horrible! it makes me shudder."
"Pray let me have your vinaigrette."
A bottle of English smelling-salts was passed round the circle.
"And to have every bystander volunteer a funeral sermon!"