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Unspeakable misery had descended on the Haidehof. The father lay in the / parlor, on his sickbed, and groaned and complained and cursed the hour / of his birth. In milder moments he seized his wife's hand with tearful / eyes, and asked her forgiveness for having united her fate to his ruined / life, and promised to make her rich and happy in future. Rich -- above all / things, rich.
It was too late. Mild words from him now made no impression on her. In / her tormented heart she already heard the abuse which would inevitably / follow them. With withered cheeks and lustreless eyes she walked about, / never uttering a sound of complaint, doubly pitiful in her silence.