Just when Meyerhofer’s estate was to be sold by auction, his third son Paul was born. Frau Elsbeth, with her haggard face and melancholy smile, lay in her big four-post bed, with the cradle of the new-born child near her, and listened to every noise that reached her in her sad sickroom from the yard and the house.…
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