The same curtains at the low gable-windows, whose depth, so to speak, made a light anteroom to the real gloomy one in the background.

In this little anteroom the young girl had placed all that was necessary for her pleasure and use.

There were the most beautiful, sweet-scented flowers upon the window-stool; in a pretty metal cage was a light-colored canary.

There were also pretty engravings, and upon the table stood a vase filled with superb artificial flowers, and before it sat the possessor of this room, the daughter of General and Frau von Werrig, surrounded with her work-tools, paper, and colored materials--a young girl, scarcely twenty, of a proud, dignified appearance, but simply and gracefully dressed.

According to the fashion of the day, her hair was slightly powdered, and raised high above her broad, clear brow with a blue rosette, and ends at the side.