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But still I shake with fear in every limb it is a hard thing to die. You cannot imagine how I have almost puzzled my brains out about it. But now all is well, and I will be cheerful for I am the happiest girl in the world!" "Yes, you are right. But come, let us go. Will you ride with me on my horse?" asked John. "Yes. Is it the white horse that you had at the wedding at Endringen?" "To be sure!"
And now, you know that I have always let you go your own way quietly; so then, open your heart to me, and tell me what it was that made you come back from the wedding at Endringen like a man bewitched, and why it is that you have never since then been the same lad that you were before. Tell me, and perhaps I can help you." "Oh, mother, you cannot do that but I will tell you.
When she arrived in front of the tavern at Endringen again, she found several people from her village already assembled there. "Ah, are you here, too, Barefoot?" was the only greeting she received. And now there was great confusion; for many who had been the first to urge going home, were still upstairs dancing.
"No, I shall not do that; for his mother gave it to me when I was a little child, and I had it on when we danced together at Endringen." Something was heard to fall on the staircase; but nobody heeded it, for Rose screamed out: "What! You good-for-nothing, horrible witch! You would have perished in rags if we had not taken you up! And now you want to take my betrothed from me!"
But as darkness followed the setting of the sun, so did sorrow follow gladness; and she said to herself that she was thus adorning herself only to do honor to John, and to show how much she valued whatever came from his family, she at last put on the necklace. Thus, adorned as she had been on the day of the wedding at Endringen, Amrei came down from her room. "What is this?
A wonderful rumor was now pervading the village; for many days there had been talk of a wedding that was to be celebrated at Endringen, with such festivities as had not been seen in the country within the memory of man.
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