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Fraulein Else 4 NOFELETTE By ARTHUR SCHNITZLER Tranfated FH. LYON LONDON: ad. M. PHILPOT, LTD, 69 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C.1 [COPY RIGHT) reinfeo Im GREAT MBITAIN PUBLISHER'S NOTR Arthur Schnitzler waa born in Vienna in 1862. His father was a throat specialist and he himself is a medical man, which gives a psychological study like “ Fraulein Else” a peculiar value. His first work, the well- known “Anatol,” was published in 1893, and since then he has produced a large number of books and plays which have made him one of ‘the most famous authors in the German language. That his reputation as a brilliant and subtle writer and analyst of character is amply deserved finds proof in this novelette, the recerd df the thoughts of a girl during the last tragic hours of her life. Fraulein Else “ Won’t you really play any more, Else ? ” “No, Paul, I can’t play any more-—~good- bye. Good-bye, gnadige Frau.” “ But, Else, call me Frau Cissy—or better still, just Cissy.” * Good-bye, Frau Cissy.” “But why are you going already, Else ? There are two whole hours before dinner.” “Please play your single with Paul, Frau Cissy. It’s really no fun playing with me to-day,” “Leave her alone, gnadige Frau, she’s in one of her moods to-day... As a matter of fact, Else, being in a bad mood is very becoming to you. And your red jersey is still more so.” “T hope you'll find me better-tempered in blue, Paul.”
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