The Story of a Novel

“At last the guests had departed, and soon after her husband left too; the servants, exhausted by the bustle of those noisy days, seemed to dissolve away, and the whole house appeared to recede into the depths of the park, where silence always held most firmly, was especially weighty and commanding, and invariably awakened in the woman’s soul a keen desire to listen to the mute workings of imagination and memory…”