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Anna took her best clothes, recovered her best high-school

wen, ruddy,

bright, with long lied in the least The little Baroness was

s her teeth She had a real charhted, like souard before her,

instinctively attracted by the strange, childlike surety of the

Baroness, yetit, fascinated The little baron was

now quite white-haired, very brittle He izened and

wrinkled, yet fiery, unsubdued Anna looked at his lean body, at

his s, and

she flushed She recognized the quality of the e, his informed fire, his faculty for

sharp, deliberate response He was so detached, so purely

objective A wohly outside hiive that fine, deliberate response

He was so, whittled down by age to an essentiality and a

directness ally

sure in its action, so distinct in its surety, that she was

attracted to him She watched his cool, hard, separate fire,

fascinated by it Would she rather have it than her husband's

diffuse heat, than his blind, hot youth?

She seeh, sharp air, as if she had

just coe Skrebenskys made her