The Keeper of Hands
“He’d brought along his butterfly net and collecting jars, and now stood like a disappointed child at the window, dressed in breeches and linen smock, watching the puddles forming in the courtyard of ‘the farm’.
He presented a pitiful sight, and Werthen felt a sudden sympathy for his father. For the first time, he recognized that the man was vulnerable, and then Werthen remembered with something of a shock that his father was over sixty. He had taken to combing his thinning hair forward, rather ...in the style of a Roman senator; the tidy little moustache he sported looked strangely darker than before, obviously dyed. Once so tall and thin, he seemed diminished and had something of a stoop now.
As Emile von Werthen maintained his post at the rain-splattered window, gazing out wanly, butterfly net in hand, Werthen experienced a strange emotion – not dissimilar to the protective love he felt for his little daughter Frieda.
‘The weather will surely clear up later this afternoon,’ Frau von Werthen told her husband.MoreLess
He presented a pitiful sight, and Werthen felt a sudden sympathy for his father. For the first time, he recognized that the man was vulnerable, and then Werthen remembered with something of a shock that his father was over sixty. He had taken to combing his thinning hair forward, rather ...in the style of a Roman senator; the tidy little moustache he sported looked strangely darker than before, obviously dyed. Once so tall and thin, he seemed diminished and had something of a stoop now.
As Emile von Werthen maintained his post at the rain-splattered window, gazing out wanly, butterfly net in hand, Werthen experienced a strange emotion – not dissimilar to the protective love he felt for his little daughter Frieda.
‘The weather will surely clear up later this afternoon,’ Frau von Werthen told her husband.MoreLess
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