Zingarella

"Zingarella," for which his wife is said to have been the model.

Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Mary Schell Hoke Bacon 1902

Eleanore bent her head over to the wall where the mask of Zingarella, which he had given her, was hanging.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

Eleanore straightened up, took the mask of Zingarella, and held it up before her face.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

Zingarella saw that he had had nothing to do with women of her kind.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

In it, carefully packed in sawdust, was the mask of Zingarella.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

Zingarella; she hung it with fresh flowers every day: to her the mask was a mysterious picture of all that her own being, her own life, embraced.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

He was living in the house of a seamstress, a poor widow, and as he came into the room he noticed her ten-year-old daughter standing by the open box in which he had kept the mask of Zingarella.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

“The mask, the mask,” whispered Eleanore anxiously, and pointed over to the corner from which the mask of Zingarella, with the dim light falling on it, shone forth like the weirdly beautiful face of a spectre.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

Daniel saw that the mask of Zingarella had been broken to pieces.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

She stepped up to the place on the wall where the mask of Zingarella had been hanging since his return home.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903