“Listen, Imma, how thankful they are that we have not forgotten their need and affliction. What crowds there are, standing there and shouting up to us! Of course many of them are scoundrels, and take each other in, and sadly need to be elevated above the work-day and its reality. But they are really grateful when one shows oneself conscious of their need and affliction.”
“But we are so stupid and so lonely, Prince—on the peaks of humanity, as Doctor Ueberbein used always to say—and we know absolutely nothing of life.”
“Nothing, little Imma? What was it, then, which at last gave you confidence in me, and brought us to study so practically the public weal? Knows he nothing of life who knows of love? That shall be our business in future: Highness and Love—an austere happiness.”
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The Swiss governess was the widow of a Calvanistic minister
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The opportunity came. While the Swiss governness was
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and not where it's too dusty, for this dress shows everything.
and not where it's too dusty, for this dress shows everything.” - [Page 68]:
compared with Trümmerhauff. Trümmerhauf had the nobility
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His right hand was rather broad, he had cheek bones like the
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bowed and begged leave to annouce that their Royal Highnesses
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and an exploratory operation, whch was conducted
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Lastly, Princess Ditlande had married at the age of twenty,
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protuded.
protruded. - [Page 139]:
said Jettchen, as provisional lodgings.”
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necessary sum, and a learned architect from the captital had
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means dazzingly magnificent. A few idlers, guarded by a
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the temperature-and weight-charts—tended by nurses in
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and beat the carpet with his tail, At the same moment
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suddenly sat Fatma off at a gallop and flew at such a pace
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Imma Spoelman took stock of the prosaic country-house which
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Isenschnibble has kept me well posted—you know she is
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had withdrawn and Princes Griseldis had opened the cotillon
had withdrawn and Princess Griseldis had opened the cotillon