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The White Morning, by Gertrude Atherton
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Title: The White Morning
Author: Gertrude Atherton
Release Date: September 18, 2004 [eBook #13496]
Language: English
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THE WHITE MORNING
A Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime
by
GERTRUDE ATHERTON
[Illustration: GISELA Photograph by Arnold Genthe, N.Y.]
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Countess Gisela Niebuhr sat in the long dusk of Munich staring over at the beautiful park that in happier days had been famous in the world as the Englischer Garten, and deliberately recalled on what might be the last night of her life the successive causes that had led to her profound dissatisfaction with her country as a woman. She was so thoroughly disgusted with it as a German that personal grievances were far from necessary to fortify her for the momentous rôle she was to play with the dawn; but in this rare hour of leisure it amused her naturally introspective mind to rehearse certain episodes whose sum had made her what she was.
When she was fourteen and her sisters Lili and Elsa sixteen and eighteen they had met in the attic of t