In a German Pension

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Katherine Mansfield. In a German Pension

1. GERMANS AT MEAT

2. THE BARON

3. THE SISTER OF THE BARONESS

4. FRAU FISCHER

5. FRAU BRECHENMACHER ATTENDS A WEDDING

6. THE MODERN SOUL

7. AT “LEHMANN’S”

8. THE LUFT BAD

9. A BIRTHDAY

10. THE CHILD-WHO-WAS-TIRED

11. THE ADVANCED LADY

12. THE SWING OF THE PENDULUM

13. A BLAZE

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“Who is he?” I said. “And why does he sit always alone, with his back to us, too?”

“Ah!” whispered the Frau Oberregierungsrat, “he is a Baron.”

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Days lengthened into weeks. Still we were together, and still the solitary little figure, head bowed as though under the weight of the spectacles, haunted me. He entered with the black bag, he retired with the black bag—and that was all.

At last the manager of the pension told us the Baron was leaving the next day.

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