You see Mamma, it s no bad thing that he s older than me, and may even be a good thing; he isn

t old and he s fit and healthy and so dashing and soldierly. And I might almost say that I m all in favour of him, if only well if only he were a bit different Later: but I m afraid of him . p. 25

Child of nature p. 27 Golchowski he s a very dubious customer whom I wouldn t trust out of my sight p. 32 Nightmares: chapter 9 Instetten s reaction: p. 57 And so it came about that she, by nature so frank and open, slipped further and further into duplicity and play-acting 123-4
Unworldly young EffiBriest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bo red, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation. But years later, when Effi has almost forgotten her affair, the secret returns to haunt her, with fatal consequences. Considered to be Fontane's greatest novel, EffiBriest is a humane, unsentimental portrait of a young woman torn between her duties as a wife and mother and the instincts of her heart.

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