Under a Charm: A Novel. Vol. II

· 1918

3. Compare this to the American edition: "Vineta, The Phantom City," by E. Werner and translated by Frances A. Shaw. At an early hour on the following morning the Castle guests, most of whom had spent the night beneath its roof, took their departure; only Count Morynski and his daughter remained at Wilicza. As the young proprietor's arrival had surprised them there, courtesy required that they should address to him some words of greeting before leaving his house; the Count, however, considered that, in the utter absence of all intimacy between himself and his nephew, he would be acting with propriety in leaving the latter exclusively to his mother for the first few hours succeeding their me…

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