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The schoolmaster's wife and Martella had decorated our steps and the doorway with flowers and garlands, to the great delight of all of us, and Ludwig in particular. But on the second day, Ludwig said to Rothfuss:
"Take down the wreaths; nothing is uglier than to let flowers hang until they wilt. "