She looked sideways at him. And you will help me draw him here, Ilona. Still it took all his strength to carry Ilona upwards to his destination. There are cities far away, where the lights glitter and people throng the streets, the War no more to them than words in a newspaper.
Purest pleasure, to have Charlotte with him at last; yet how fragile it felt. God, how could I have forgotten this? And he was clutching the man like a lover and weeping as he drank, with an overwhelming sense of returning home. So I went back to Kristian; he found me half-way and we walked along the Karntnerstrasse together, like two Viennese gentlemen after the Opera. This is only Fleur's house.
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