:47:01
Our master should live.
Everyone should live.
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But don't forget...
:47:07
it all happened so long ago.
:47:09
The letters are yellow with age.
:47:13
-How can anyone dig up--
-That's how you see it, Roswitha.
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''As for your future, my dear Effi,
you are on your own now.
:47:24
''You may count on
some materiaI support from us.
:47:28
''Live in BerIin,
where you'II be one of the many...
:47:31
''who have deprived themseIves
of air and sunIight.
:47:34
''It wiII be a IoneIy Iife if you don't
want to descend beIow your cIass.
:47:39
''Your former worId wiII be cIosed to you.
:47:42
''The saddest thing for aII of us...
:47:45
''is that you wiII aIso be excIuded
from your parentaI home.
:47:50
''We cannot offer you a refuge
in Hohen-Cremmen...
:47:53
''for that wouId mean...
:47:54
''cutting ourseIves off from the worId...
:47:57
''which we are not prepared to do.
:48:00
''Not because we couIdn't bear to bid
fareweII to what one caIIs 'society.'
:48:05
''No, that's not the reason.
:48:08
''But we have to make our position cIear...
:48:11
''and show the worId
that we condemn your actions...
:48:16
''the actions of our one and onIy daughter
whom we Iove so dearIy.''
:48:26
After receiving her parent's
Ietter of refusaI...
:48:30
and taking the train back to BerIin...
:48:33
Effi did not at first
move into an apartment of her own.
:48:36
She sought Iodgings in a boarding house
with reasonabIe success.
:48:42
Do you remember how Gieshuebler came
and had to join us at table...
:48:47
and said he'd never eaten
anything so delicious?
:48:54
He was always so well-mannered.
:48:57
ln fact, he was the only person
who knew anything about food.