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I possess twenty-two letters from this justly celebrated man; and the last word written six months before, his too, early death. The longer I live the more interest I take in my papers. They are the treasure which attaches me to life and makes death more hateful still. I had been reading at Berne Rousseau's "Heloise," and I asked M. Haller's opinion of it.
"You've talked to Gene Russell, of course. He may have heard I think he did hear Mildred and me discussing the mailing of a letter that Friday night." "He did," Hastings said, firmly. "But he couldn't have heard anything to warrant your theory, Mr. Hastings. I merely made fun of her wavering after she'd once said she'd confront Berne Webster again with her appeal for fair play."
I apprehended that I should meet with difficulties, on account of having changed my religion, but none occurred; the laws of Geneva being less harsh in that particular than those of Berne, where, whoever changes his religion, not only loses his freedom, but his property.
"The Genevese are very fond of a laugh," persisted the doctor. "Sir," replied the Genevese, much hurt that any one should think he liked to laugh, "I saw it put on the coach myself." "What?" "The money." "Was there much?" "A good many bags." "But where does the money come from?" "The treasury of the bears of Berne.
It stands on a peninsula and the view on mountain and river is most beautiful. From Berne we went direct to the city of Milan in Italy. And we found that it wuz a beautiful city eight or nine milds round, I should judge, with very handsome houses, the cathedral bein' the cap sheaf.
Suffolk, on the south bank of the James, seventy miles from Richmond, was held by a force of 20,000 men; while another small army, of about the same strength, occupied New Berne, on the North Carolina coast.
When she found no whit of faithlessness in the lord of Berne, quickly she promised Bloedel a broad estate, that Nudung owned aforetime. Later he was slain by Hagen, so that he quite forgot the gift. She spake: "Thou must help me, Sir Bloedel, forsooth my foes be in this house, who slew Siegfried, my dear husband. Ever will I serve him, that helpeth me avenge this deed."
On their return to Berne they met with some pious ladies: One of whom, says John Yeardley, spoke German with me, and entered pretty suddenly on the subject of the bread and wine supper, or sacrament.
The objects that most pleased me, at Berne, were the public walks, which are unequalled by any I have ever seen, in respect to their number, extent, and the neatness with which they are kept.
After paying short visits to Lausanne, Berne, and Zurich, the party returned home. As her life passed on and infirmities grew apace, it seemed that Mrs. Fry's zeal and charity grew also, for she planned and schemed to do good with never-flagging delight.
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