Excerpt from My Country a Story of Today

"Elfrieda!"

There was no answer.

"Elfrieda!" Mrs. Sigbert svoice was deep, yet shrill. There was silence as she stood intently, an elderly woman, with a huge nose that was not quite exactly in the centre of her large, plain face, and snapping black eyes. Some one in the front of the house began strumming the piano again, monotonously and rebelliously. Mrs. Sigbert resumed her work, re-arranging the table, smoothing the cloth, that was already wrinkleless, and changing the plates about. Presently she called:

"Charlotte! Charlotte!"

The kitchen door opened, and Charlotte Sigbert, the eldest daughter, came into the room, a tall, ungainly, heavy-featured woman, all elbows, hips and knees, and strikingly like her mother, having the same large, crooked nose and swarthy complexion.

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