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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: air enters by the ears--if the basin would have to be as deep as a bucket?"
She experimented--gripped the washstand with both hands and slowly sank her
head into the water, when again there was a knock on the door. Not the
landlady this time--it must be Casimir. With her face and hair dripping,
with her petticoat bodice unbuttoned, she ran and opened it.
A strange man stood against the lintel--seeing her, he opened his eyes very
wide and smiled delightfully. "Excuse me--does Fraulein Schafer live
here?"
"No; never heard of her." His smile was so infectious, she wanted to smile
too--and the water had made her feel so fresh and rosy.
The strange man appeared overwhelmed with astonishment. "She doesn't?" he
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