The Opposite House: A Novel — page 19: what you’re looking at

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“ge ie 2 # Mes Ut; vy) Ap) ee o ES ‘3 i > 2 SST St! a | Sao fab ) hi: éi3° lan? CHAPTER II. THE PRINCE OF THE MILL. Young Gerrald had cared little for the gossip of the worthy citizens of D——, whether with noble in- dignation they condemned him or defended him against all the slanderous tongues. He had locked himself into the bow-window room to keep watch alone beside his mother’s coffin. No one except old Gretlis had seen him during this time. She had obstinately begged admission urgently to entreat her young master to eat, and now and then had asked him for counsel. Then Traugott himself helped her arrange a little room in the attic, where the old woman was henceforth to live and take charge of the empty house. The black coffin had been lowered into the earth quietly, without display, and the young merchant now stood alone and desolate in the dead woman's chamber. A very singular change had occurred in his whole nature, and was reflected in his pale features. The [14] Comiclbookks C@