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(1880) Author: Albert Alberg - Tema: Fables
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128 J 22 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.

weeds, and had always a poor little boy with
her, and she used to sit on the steps with her
head leaning against one of the marble pillars
which adorned the entrance to this abode,
where the weary and sorrowing long to enter.
She sometimes threw a few stray green leaves
or simple blossoms through the opening of
the door, and she would sigh and sob so
bitterly that I sometimes thought the
recumbent marble statue in the sepulchre shed tears
of pity for the sorrowing woman on the steps
of the mausoleum. But then, the tears might
only have been accumulated drops, for a
sepulchre is a damp place. I gathered from
the broken sentences she uttered during her
frequent visits, that she was a daughter of the
old people buried within, and that she had after
their demise married against the consent of her
brother, who was now the head of the family ;
and that her husband, who had been a poor
artist, unknown to fame, was now dead, and
she and her little ones thrown upon the
merciless world; and that her haughty brother,
the inheritor of the proud name and family
estates, had turned his back upon his forlorn
and grief-stricken sister, because, as he wickedly

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