The Opposite House: A Novel — page 43: what you’re looking at

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CHAP aA BANG Vs EFHEoTALISMAN. ‘Traugott walked rapidly down the street, without casting a glance upward at the window of the young baroness, amid whose green leafage a finch was carolling its vesper song; his eyes were bent upon the stone flags of the pavement, and he imagined that, in every crevice, he saw the sneer- ing face of the old baroness, the woman to whom all that bore the name of Gerrald had no existence! But Marie? Did those loving child-like eyes know the insolent language of arrogance? Could they coldly, heartlessly, see nothing save that blot upon the ancient name, and condemn the family whose great-erandfather had been preferred to a coat of arms? Had those sweet lips been taught to utter bitter words against the hated neighbor, the little golden head pondered over those horrible scenes of the past, in which an unfortunate sword-thrust [38] Comicbooks.c©