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One day in December, Wilhelm Hörstel had business in Dringenstadt, and on his return home he gave Frida two letters which he had found lying at the post-office for her. They proved, to Frida's great delight, to be from her two friends Miss Drechsler and Adeline Stanford. Miss Drechsler's ran thus:
But Hans, instead of rushing to meet them as he usually did, ran back hastily to his mother, calling out, "Here they come, here they come!" "Oh, I am glad!" she said. "Anna, dear Anna, you will hear Frida's voice again." The mother looked round with a smile, but moved not, for the dying child lay in her arms. A moment longer, and Frida was beside her, her arms round the blind child.
Frida Jansen's duty was as I have just told you to look after your brother's room.
Won't you save me from this man? Won't you take me home with you?" Dim and hollow, as from the womb of time unborn, a calm voice came back to her across the gulf of ages: "Your husband willed it, Frida, and the customs of your nation. You can come to me, but I can never return to you. In three days longer your probation would have been finished.
He'd better wait till the church-people are finished." "Respectability seems to be a very great object of worship in your village," Bertram suggested in perfect good faith. "Is it a local cult, or is it general in England?" Frida glanced at him, half puzzled. "Oh, I think it's pretty general," she answered, with a happy smile.
And, Mutter," continued the girl, "they say all my expenses will be paid, and that I shall have Adeline's masters for music and languages, and be treated as if I were their daughter." Elsie looked up with tears in her eyes. "Well, Frida dear," she said, "it does seem a good thing for you, and right glad I am about it for your sake; but, oh, we will miss you sorely.
Frida opened it with trembling hands, saw it was from Miss Drechsler, and read the words, "Come at once; you are needed here." What could it mean? Was Miss Drechsler ill? It looked like it, for who else would require her in London? Fatigue was forgotten; she could rest, she said, in the train; she must go at once. In a couple of hours she could start. Ada was disconsolate.
And then he pretended not to see her, and stood flicking the whip he held in his hand. "Are you never coming to see us again?" she went on. "Have you been having a fight with Artur or been quarrelling with Frida? No, it can't be that, as they've been looking out for you so long. I suppose your mother won't let you, is that it? Hm, we're not good enough any more, I suppose? Of course not.
The Christian religion, born in Syria, having received its principal development in Alexandria, inhabits to-day the lands where Teutate, Irminsul, Frida, Odin were worshipped. There are peoples whose religion has been made by neither climate nor government.
You can tell Miss Blake you've brought a little of your luggage to do for to-day, and the rest will follow from town to-morrow morning." "Oh, how very kind you are!" Bertram exclaimed, looking down at her gratefully. "I'm sure I don't know what I should ever have done in this crisis without you." He said it with a warmth which was certainly unconventional. Frida coloured and looked embarrassed.
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