The book, he sees, is a volume of Goethe’s poems. In her hand is a pencil stub. She’s translating the poems into English. The margins of the book are filled with her handwriting. On page 74, Mildred has written: In all the frequent troubles of our days A God gave compensation—more his praise In looking sky- and heavenward as duty In sunshine and in virtue and in beauty.
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