Excerpt from Countess Helena: A Novel But what difference did this make to the baron, whose burning love only permitted his looking longingly and deeply into Gretchen's blue eyes, re maining totally blind to her possible innate propen sities after maturity of growing to resemble an animated tub? To him, in love, that which was so natural to her could not be distasteful to him. They married, and at first were divinely happy. The babies came with rather alarming rapidity, but fortunately they did not all live. Frau Gretchen liked to eat much better than she did to study, which, of course, contributed materially to her steadily increasing size; nor did she take kindly to eating with a fork, being so apt in the manipulation of her knife; a piece of bread tasted so much better cut from the loaf set conveniently at hand, the slice cut at random and of the desired size. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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