" She only composed herself a little when Wilhelm told
her that, for the present at any rate, he was going to leave his
books and other goods and chattels where they were, for he might
perhaps be allowed to return after a time, and meanwhile a young
man, whom she knew, and who was studying at Wilhelm's at Schrotter's
expense, should board and lodge with her, and she would receive the
same sum as Wilhelm had always paid.
With night came counsel. Wilhelm decided to go first to Hamburg,
where Paul lived during the winter, wait there till the spring, and
then arrange further plans. He visited the grave of his father and
mother, gave Stubbe orders as to the management of the house, took
leave of a few friends, visited one or two poor people whom he was
in the habit of looking after, and then had nothing further to keep
him in Berlin. The rest of the day he passed with Schrotter, who
found the parting very hard to bear. Bhani, whom they had acquainted
with the matter, had tears in her beautiful dark eyes--the last
remnant of youth in the withered face. And as he left the dear
familiar house in the Mittelstrasse she begged him--translating the
Indian words plainly enough by looks and gestures--to accept an
amulet of cold green jade as a remembrance of her.
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