Irretrievable by Theodor Fontane

Irretrievable by Theodor Fontane

Author:Theodor Fontane
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-59017-569-9
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2012-05-01T16:00:00+00:00


On the day following this conversation, Holk, being off-duty, intended to deal with his correspondence. On his desk lay all the letters he had received during the last fortnight, including some from his wife. He quickly perused them, which did not take long since there were only a few, and then, finally, he read a telegram in which she excused herself for not having written for four days. That was all and if their extent was slight, their contents were even slighter. This annoyed him, because he was careful to avoid asking himself who was really to blame. He merely said to himself—and here he was justified—that, earlier, things had been very different. Earlier, indeed even during his last absence in Copenhagen, the letters they had exchanged had all the time been real love letters, full of the affection that they had felt for each other in their younger years. But this time all tenderness was absent, the tone was chilly, and if his wife tried to make a joke there always seemed to be something caustic or sarcastic in it which cancelled all its charm. Yes, that was unfortunately how things were and yet a letter had to be written. But how? He was still brooding over this problem when Frau Hansen entered and handed him the letters which the postman had just bought. Two of them bore the Copenhagen postmark but the third, in Christine’s handwriting, was in an envelope of a different shape from the usual and instead of the Glücksburg postmark bore that of Hamburg. For a moment Holk was surprised and then, even before opening the envelope, he realized what had happened: “Of course, Christine is on her tour of the boarding-schools.” So it proved to be and this is what he read:



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