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Three weeks had passed since then. Paul worked like a galley-slave. In / spite of that a strange unrest was upon him. When he allowed himself a / few moments' repose he could not bear to stay at home. He felt as if the / walls were falling in upon him. Then he rambled about on the heath or in / the wood, or he lingered near Helenenthal.
"If I should meet Elsbeth I think I should sink into the ground with / shame," he said to himself, and yet he looked about for her everywhere, / and trembled with fear and joy when he saw a female figure coming / towards him in the distance.