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72 Hermann Sudermann
rugs, birchen chairs, old pictures; and yet when you see
the beams of the western sun pour through the white
curtains and lie with such a loving touch on the old room,
does not something say to you,
"
Here dwells true hap
piness "?
The Colonel is a rigid military man. He is
utterly blind to the modern conception of woman s
place in life. He rules his family as the Kaiser
rules the nation, with severe discipline, with ter
rorism and depotism. He chooses the man whom
Magda is to marry, and when she refuses to ac
cept his choice, he drives her out of the house.
At the age of eighteen Magda goes out into
the world yearning for development; she longs
for artistic expression and economic independence.
Seventeen years later she returns to her native
town, a celebrated singer. As Madelene dell
Orto she is invited to sing at the town s charity
bazaar, and is acclaimed, after the performance,
one of the greatest stars of the country.
Magda has not forgotten her home; especially
does she long to see her father whom she loves
passionately, and her sister, whom she had left
a little child of eight. After the concert Magda,
the renowned artist, steals away from her admir
ers, with their flowers and presents, and goes out
into the darkness of the night to catch a glimpse,
through the window at least, of her father and her
little sister.
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