The Opposite House: A Novel — page 128: what you’re looking at

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GHAPT ER X PL. ON GPR. SPOT. The train was rushing through the scorching sunshine, two shining rows of rails glittered under the wheels and vanished in serpentine curves among the dry mounds of sand. Here and there a solitary fir tree or a clump of brown junipers stood beside the road; with that exception the whole region was desolate. Beyond Frankfort the scene changed. The blue outlines of mountains rose against the sky, the waves of the broad Main and Rhine eglittered, and dark pine woods cast their pointed shadows on the yellow sand. Heloise had left D—-— suddenly, ostensibly for a month. She had complained recently of pains in her limbs, said that she positively could not dance any more, and the physician had willingly given her a certificate which at once secured leave of ab- sence from the court stage. She was now travelling directly to Wiesbaden, and, in her exnuz, wondering what she should find [123] Comicbookks C@