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Don't be so boisterous, Effi!
Not so impetuous!
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lt worries me when l see you like this.
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A STORY OF RENUNClATlON
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lS NEVER AMlSS.
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Baron lnnstetten was not even 20...
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when he was garrisoned over there
with the Rathenow regiment...
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and was on friendly terms
with the local landowners.
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He especially liked to visit
my grandfather's estate in Schwantikow.
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Not because of grandfather, of course.
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When Mama talks about it...
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it's obvious for whom he came...
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and l think the feeling was mutual.
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What happened then?
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Everything took its natural course...
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as it always does.
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He was still so very young.
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Then father came along.
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He was already in the council of nobles
and owned Hohen-Cremmen...
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and she accepted him without more ado...
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and became Frau von Briest.
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And what became of lnnstetten?
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He didn't kill himself,
or he wouldn't be coming today.
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He resigned his commission...
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and began to study law.
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But Frau von Briest,
who couId aIso be unconventionaI herseIf...
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detained Effi as she was hurrying off.
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She Iooked at
the charming young creature...
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who was stiII fIushed from pIaying
and in the bIoom of youth.
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And she confided to her.:
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''I think you had best stay as you are.
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''Yes, stay as you are.
You Iook very comeIy...
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''so innocent and unprepared,
not at aII primped up.
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''And that's the main thing right now.
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''I have something to teII you, Effi.''
She took her daughter by both hands.
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''I must teII you....''
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''What's the matter, Mama?
You frighten me.''
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''I have to teII you, Effi...
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''that Baron Innstetten
has asked for your hand.''