The Torrents of Spring, Chapter 29

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌​‌​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌⁠If Gemma had announced that she had brought with her cholera or death itself, one can hardly imagine that Frau Lenore could have received the news with greater despair. She immediately sat down in a corner, with her face to the wall, and burst into floods of tears, positively wailed, for all the world like a Russian peasant woman on the grave of her husband or her son. For the first minute Gemma w