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be remedied—if it depended on me you should not be childless.” The countess, misconstruing the meaning of those words, took them to heart. She thought her husband was reproaching her on her increasing age and barrenness, when as yet he was a strong and vigorous man. It greived her so much that she fell into a deep melancholy—friend Hein[7] would have been a welcome guest had he then called upon her.
