"... Fräulein von Bernburg bent down and kissed a quivering mouth.
"Steady, Manuela. . . ."
Her hand caressed the head lying on her shoulder, and the girl did not guess that she herself in that moment was perhaps even more in need of comfort.
"Steady, my darling— don't get so excited." "
—"Das Mädchen Manuela" Christa Winsloe
















