The Opposite House: A Novel — page 276: what you’re looking at

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The Opposite House. 271 me to Baroness von Rotterswyl just yet. Many thanks, Liesbeth; you ’rea good girl.” And he walked hastily away as if to escape the incredulous look with which the “good girl” greeted his “we'll come directly.” But Liesbeth was discreet, and only said, with a ludicrously solemn expression : “Very glad to do it, Herr Gerrald,” turned on her heel and fairly ran back to the house. “Friedrich,” she giggled to her approaching lover, “the ‘pop’ is coming.”’ And when he asked the names and other particulars, she laid her finger mysteriously on her lipsand murmured, “ St!’ * Ky # * % % The rushes were whispering their monotonous song around the dreaming girl, the birds on the wil. low-branch were singing low, sweet notes, and the outlines of the fair face quivered on the water, melting into its own golden locks and blending with the dazzling sunshine, which painted its reflection on the undulating water. Glittering wings flitted through the young foliage, and the timid lizards darted over the rocks on the shore, which looked as crumbling and moss-grown as if they might tell tales of the days when the castle fountain had stood here in the place of the pool, and from its cool depths rose the nixie to tell the lovely, high-born dame of the marvels never before beheld, in order to draw her down into the waves, leaving the proud Comiclbookks