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It makes the Buchers satisfied and still is something that has fearfulness lurking about it. It's not religious or divine they are not actuated by such motives, do not speak of them. What in the world is it that the Germans have that is so wonderful and we do not seem to have?" Kirtley had thought a great deal about this and talked almost fluently.
Besides, Kirtley had not yet fully learned that they have not the same understanding of things, not the same definitions for the same words. For instance, the Buchers insisted that the Germans had the most freedom of any nation. But their freedom meant something like the liberty allowed in a prison yard. Free press?
Here was an earnest young woman, lolling on the gate with plenty of time on her hands, dying for a man. She could teach Deming everything he wanted to know. She was not antagonistic to Americans as were the Buchers. On the contrary she was aching to clasp some one of them in her pudgy arms. But this stratagem proved a flat failure.
The talk shifted angles and Anderson was saying after awhile: "When you have the German statesmen, generals, magnates, press, professors, theologians, everybody, insisting on the incomparable virtues of the Germans and never on their failings on their rights and privileges and never on their duties to humanity do you wonder that the plain people, like your Buchers, think it devolves upon them to turn foreign lands into waste by the sword in order to convert them into German countries?
Herr Friedrich von Tielitz-Leibach was a composer and a music director. He was the son of a neighbor who had moved away, and the musical Buchers doted on him as one with a shining future. Kirtley had often heard them refer to Friedrich as to so many of their friends of whom he knew nothing. When Friedrich called, at very rare intervals, it was always a wonderful day.
He said to himself, "No one else whom I have read or heard of is contemplating such a campaign. Other races are holding forth on the benefits and glories of peace. These Dresden Germans are talking of the benefits and glories of war!" This example in these simple, every-day Buchers was most pointed. Their lines were furthest from the military.
If he were cheated or otherwise imposed upon anywhere in Dresden and this did not often happen the Buchers were violently up in arms about it and never ceased pursuit of the recreant until the wrong was righted. "The good German name must not be tarnished."
While he had dreaded such a happening for Jim's sake, it might have cleared the atmosphere pleasantly for his own. But Friedrich was delighted that Herr Deming showed his old neighbors, the Buchers, such munificent courtesies, and Jim thought Von Tielitz the most brilliant chap he had ever known.
Elsa's lessons in etching and her methodical hours for perfecting her manifold talents, became badly confused. The great thing was driving at the fashionable hour in the Grosse Garten. This was what the Buchers had never dreamed of. In the winter only the royal and very aristocratic families drove there.
Somehow, through it all, they were to deprive him of his state paper likely when he had become intoxicated, as was evidently planned. But the revelation about the Buchers! That was the finishing blow. "Dastards!" Gard hurled out the word. It was not only Rudi but his parents who had followed his leadership.
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