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The next few days proved how little he was in a position to live on his / own estate without her services. He was far more dependent on her than / she on him. Helpless as a shipwrecked mariner on a desert island, he / stole about the ancestral grounds. Though the mines and wolfs'-traps no / longer dogged his steps, finding his way among the chaos of smoked and / tumbling walls made him giddy, and decay had altered everything so / much, that the landmarks of his childish memories afforded him no / assistance. Even the park, where once he had known every tree and bush, / through long years of neglect, had become such a wilderness that at / every step he nearly lost himself in it.
When the first flush of his defiance and despair had subsided, the / question arose, "What was he to do next? " It was a problem that pressed / for solution, as the miserable rations of bread and meat in the cellars / were running out.