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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Son of His Mother, by Clara Viebig, Translated by H. Raahauge This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Son of His Mother Author: Clara Viebig Release Date: December 22, 2009 [eBook #30732] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SON OF HIS MOTHER*** E-text prepared by Charles Bowen from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/sonofhismother00viebiala THE SON OF HIS MOTHER by CLARA VIEBIG Authorised Translation by H. Raahauge London: John Lane The Bodley Head New York: John Lane Company Toronto: Bell & Cockburn MCMXIII The Anchor Press, Ltd., Tiptree Essex BOOK I THE SON OF HIS MOTHER CHAPTER I The husband and wife were of a literary turn of mind, and as they had the money to cultivate their artistic tastes he wrote a little and she painted. They also played and sang duets together, at least they had done so when they were first married; now they went to concerts and the opera more frequently instead. They were liked wherever they went, they had friends, they were called "charming people," and still something was wanting to complete their happiness--they had no children. And they would probably not have any now, as they had been married for some time, and the likelihood of children being born to them was very remote. No doubt he sighed and knit his brow in unguarded moments when he sat at his desk in his office, but especially when he passed through the villages in the Brandenburg March on the rides he took in the more distant environs of Berlin--partly for his health, partly because he still retained the liking for riding from the time he was in the cavalry--and saw swarms of little flaxen-haired children romping on the sandy roads. However, he did not let his wife perceive that he missed something, for he loved her. But she could not control herself in the same manner.
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