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Little he thought that, from a shot window near the door, a pair of blue eyes, like Lilith's, but paler and colder, were watching him just as a spider watches the fly that is likely ere long to fall into his toils. And into those toils Karl soon fell. LITTLE HE THOUGHT THAT FROM A SHOP WINDOW NEAR THE DOOR A PAIL OF BLUE EYES LIKE LILITHS BUT PALER AND COLDER WERE WATCHING HIM JUST AS A SPIDER WATCHES THE FLY THAT IS LIKELY ERE LONG TO FALL INTO HIS TOILS AND INTO THOSE TOILS KARL SOON FELL
immortalised his vengeance. But it was now universally understood that it was his daughter, of whose loveliness extravagant reports went abroad; though all said, doubtless reading this from her father’s pictures, that she was a beauty without a heart. Strange theories of something else supplying its place were rife among the anatomical students. With the girl in the pictures, the wild imagination of Lottchen, probably in part from her apparently absolute unattainableness and her undisputed heartlessness, had fallen in love, as far as the mere imagination can fall in love. But again, how was he to see her? He haunted the house night after night. Those blue eyes never met his. No step responsive to his came from that door. It seemed to have been so long unopened that it had grown as fixed and hard as the stones that held its bolts in their passive clasp. He dared not watch in the daytime, and with all his watching at night, he never saw father or daughter or domestic cross the threshold. D HALF IN DEEPEST HATE IMMORTALIZED HIS VENGEANCE BUT IT WAS NOW UNIVERSALLY UNDERSTOOD THAT IT WAS HIS DAUGHTER OF WHOSE LOVELINESS EXTRAVAGANT REPORTS WENT ABROAD THOUGH ALL SET DOUBTLESS READING THIS FROM HER FATHER'S PICTURES THAT SHE WAS A BEAUTY WITHOUT A HEART STRANGE THEORIES OF SOMETHING ELSE SUPPLYING ITS PLACE WERE RIFE AMONG THE ANATOMICAL STUDENTS WITH THE GIRL IN THE PICTURES THE WILD IMAGINATION OF LOCTCHEN PROBABLY IN PART FROM HER APPARENTLY ABSOLUTE UNATTAINABLENESS IN HER UNDISPUTED HEARTLESSNESS HAD FALLEN IN LOVE AS FAR AS THE MERE IMAGINATION CAN FALL IN LOVE BUT AGAIN HOW WAS HE TO SEE HER HE HAUNTED THE HOUSE NIGHT AFTER NIGHT THOSE BLUE EYES NEVER MET HIS NO STEP RESPONSIVE TO HIS CAME FROM THAT DOOR IT SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN SO LONG UNOPENED THAT IT HAD GROWN AS FIXED AND HARD AS THE STONES THAT HELD ITS BOLTS IN THEIR PASSIVE CLASP HE DARED NOT WATCH IN THE DAYTIME AND WITH ALL HIS WATCHING AT NIGHT HE NEVER SAW FATHER OR DAUGHTER OR DOMESTIC CROSS THE THRESHOLD
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