Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 3. The evening was far advanced. A keen November wind swept through the streets, and the first winter snow-flakes were whitening the roofs of the houses, and the dark freshly- made mound which covered the fair body of the wife of the Pole. The table was spread in the sitting-room at the Hell- wigs. The service was of massive silver, and the pattern upon the white damask table-cloth shone like satin. The lamp stood upon a little round sofa-table, behind which sat Frau Hcllwig knitting a long woollen stocking. She was a tall broad-shouldered woman, just over forty. Perhaps, while surrounded by the golden light of youth, her face might have been thought handsome, for even now it possessed the classical outline demanded as a condition of regular beauty. But it could never have been charming, for...

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