Undying Past
章节目录
共 74 题- Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive
- 2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe].
- THE UNDYING PAST
- REGINA: OR THE SINS OF THE FATHERS
- Translated by
- Beatrice Marshall
- WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES
- THE UNDYING PAST
- THE UNDYING PAST
- Her spouse suppressed a smile, and then asked, "Why?"
- II
- III
- IV
- Leo grinned. "Do you belong to the house?"
- Mamma turned to him, and said, with a titter, "It was the girls."
- Schumann muttered a crushed "Yes."
- Grandmamma came to meet her, took her by the hand, and said--
- Elly pouted, and Hertha thought, "Ha, ha! she's caught it."
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- Now she looked up at him and inquired gently, "What is it, my son?"
- XI
- XII
- And again he heard, "Uncle Leo."
- Leo gasped. "To school? Where?"
- XIII
- Elly was horrified. "What _are_ you going to do?"
- Then she said in a low voice, without lifting her eyes from the floor--
- Then she resigned herself to fate and continued--
- XIV
- With her perpetual smile, she folded her hands and said--
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- Again silence reigned. Then Johanna said, with averted eyes--
- She returned the pressure mechanically, thinking with a shudder--
- XX
- She was still silent
- XXI
- Leo seized his glass. "Health, Master Pastor!"
- XXII
- She pouted. "Yes; but it bores me."
- She flushed to her neck. "What visitors?"
- XXIII
- XXIV
- XXV
- XXVI
- There was a pause. Then Felicitas asked in a trembling voice--
- XXVII
- XXVIII
- XXIX
- XXX
- XXXI
- But grandmamma, growing still more wroth, exclaimed--
- XXXII
- XXXIII
- That was a hard thrust--"if you still care."
- XXXIV
- XXXV
- XXXVI
- He nodded. "You must see there is no third course."
- XXXVII
- He sprang to his feet
- XXXVIII
- She took a box of matches from the bedside table, and said, smiling--
- XXXIX
- XL
- Leo was silent, and thought to himself, "Thus he casts me off."
- THE END
- FOOTNOTE: