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When Toni had arisen from her bed of pain she found the place which / she and her husband had been seeking for months with surprising / rapidity. The "Hotel Germania," the most reputable hotel in the / county-seat itself was for rent. Its owner had recently died. It was / palatial compared to her father's inn. There were fifteen rooms for / guests, a tap-room, a wine-room, a grocery-shop and a livery-stable.
Weigand, intimidated by misfortune, had never even hoped to aspire to / such heights of splendour. Even now he could only grasp the measure of / his happiness by calculating enormous profits. And he did this with / peculiar delight. For, since the business was to be run in the name of / Toni's father, his own creditors could not touch him.