Paula sat with her eyes full of tears, and did not speak one word.

Lili had already given signs of her state of mind, by all sorts of restless movements, and at last she exclaimed, "Mamma, I wish I never need touch the piano again; it will be terribly tiresome without Dora, and Miss Hanenwinkel will find fault again and say I am 'not progressing,' and I don't want to 'progress' when Dora is not here!" "Oh dear!" sighed Jule, "what terrible days are before us, with danger to life and limb, when the twins begin again to find their time hang heavy on their hands.

It is a very stupid arrangement anyway," he went on quite excitedly; "it would be far better for Dora to pass the winter with us.
Her aunt and uncle could go on in their quiet way in Karlsruhe all the same without her." The mother sympathized entirely in the children's regret at the separation and said she hoped to persuade Mr.Ehrenreich to bring his wife and Dora back for another summer.
Hunne was the only one more interested in the present than in the future, and he kept pulling Dora's dress and saying, "Go get your book, Dora! get the book!" So Dora went to get her album, and brought it over for each one of her friends, in the good old fashion, to write a verse or a motto in it, by way of remembrance.

It was no new, elegant, gilded affair.

It was an old book, faded and worn, and much of the writing in it was pale with age.
Here and there had been pasted on, tiny bunches of flowers and leaves all of which had lost their color, and many of which had fallen off.