lucking out her grey hairs, there were so many of them. She found no
relaxation in the society of her fellows and therefore avoided all
social gatherings. Most of her time she spent at home, sitting all by
herself in the remotest chamber of the house, half of whose wall was by
this time overgrown by the asclepia which Szilard had given her ages
ago--or so it seemed to her. This was the only one of her acquaintances
which had not forsaken her, and luckily for her it was tenacious of
life, for if that too had perished, with whom could poor Henrietta have
held converse?
So there was at least one creature in the world to whom this possessor
of millions could still confide her reminiscences and her sorrows. Poor
rich lady, all the poorer because of her great wealth! Poor plutocrat!
THE END
[Transcriber's Note: Most obvious typographical errors have been
corrected. Foreign words may appear at some points in the text with
accents and at other points without, and proper names may be spelled
differently in different parts of the text. These inconsistencies have
been preserved from the original publication.]
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