Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1909. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Friedrich Spielhagen The Skeleton in the House I "AND this is our sleeping-room," said Lebrecht, opening the door. "How do you like it?" "Charming!" replied Annchen. She had paused a moment on the threshold and allowed her eyes to wander around the apartment, then with a few rapid steps reached the fireplace and threw herself into an armchair. "Oh, dear! how tired I am." Lebrecht bit his lip, and his handsome face, that had just been smiling so expectantly, darkened. Annchen could not see it, for she had put her feet on the brass fender and leaned her head back on the cushions; but as he now passed her for the second time, stepping lightly in spite of the thick Brussels carpet, she put out her hand and said beseechingly: "Don't be angry with me, Lebrecht!" He had caught the slender hand and raised it to his lips. "Why should I be angry with you?" he murmured very indistinctly, for his heart was throbbing so that it almost choked him. If she held his hand, if a loving glance flashed from her eyes, if her lips parted to kiss him, then he would tell her. But the brown eyes remained weary; the charming, halfparted lips did not move; the hand fell carelessly from his into her lap. His knees, which had already bent, grew stiff again; he turned away, and only with the utmost effort repressed the sigh in which his tortured heart sought relief. So the story was again deferred until the morrow, as it had been every evening during the six weeks of their wedding-tour. But this evening, the first at home, was not exactly like the others. There was really no morrow to it; he had staked the remnant of his courage, his final hope, on it, as the gambler risks the remnant of his property on a last card. He must tell to-morrow of course, but that he would be compelled to ...
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