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Tears came into his eyes when he spoke of his mother, who had lived with him and had died six months before, a fact which he had already written to tell me. She was buried in Dresden by the side of her husband.
"And Minna?" he asked. "We had a letter from her when mother died, but in that she spoke so little of herself. Have you seen her?"
"Only in passing; she did not notice me."
"H'm! Do you think she is happy?"
"I suppose she is, that is to say, she has had sorrows—lost a child."
"Yes, at that time she wrote to mother! Oh yes, it must be dreadful for a mother!" Then he started speaking of a Liberal newspaper of which he was half-owner, and about the opposition to Bismarck.
