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Not in the evening.
:50:06
ln the morning, so as to be here
when you arrange the household.
:50:10
l'm more robust than you are, ma'am.
:50:21
Don't say that, Roswitha. l can do it.
:50:30
One can do anything if one has to.
:50:32
And you needn't worry about me.
:50:37
As if l could ever think:
:50:39
''That's not good enough for Roswitha.''
:50:42
For Roswitha, everything is good...
:50:45
that she can share with you...
:50:48
and most of all the sad things.
:51:00
EVERYTHlNG WENT WELL
:51:02
UNTlL CHRlSTMAS,
:51:04
BUT CHRlSTMAS EVE
:51:06
WAS A SAD OCCASlON,
:51:07
AND AS NEW YEAR'S GREW NEAR,
:51:10
EFFl BEGAN TO FEEL VERY MELANCHOLlC.
:51:15
One day, coming from her
painting Iessons near the zoo...
:51:19
she got on a horse-drawn tram
passing aIong Kurfuerstenstrasse.
:51:25
It was very hot...
:51:26
and the curtains, fIapping to and fro
and biIIowing in the breeze...
:51:31
refreshed her.
:51:32
She Ieaned back in the corner...
:51:36
and Iooked at the sofas enameIIed
on a pane of gIass...
:51:39
bIue, with bobs and tasseIs.
:51:42
The tram was moving sIowIy...
:51:44
when three schooIgirIs with satcheIs
and IittIe pointed hats jumped on.
:51:49
Two of them were fair-haired and IiveIy.
The third was dark and serious.
:51:53
It was Annie.
:51:54
Effi started. The thought of
a meeting with her chiId...
:51:58
which she had Iong desired...