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You know the son of the forester of the Grinderwald, do you not?" "Karl Imnant, why yes, sir!" "He is a worthy young man, and well behaved, I believe." "I think so, Monsieur." "Is he capable of succeeding his father?"
And he gazed anxiously at the door, his ear on the alert for the least sound. A few moments afterward, Zacharias lifting his head, as though awakening from a dream, asked him: "What is your name?" "Karl Imnant, Monsieur." "What is your business?" "My father hopes to obtain the position of a forester in the Grinderwald for me."
This day fortnight, or three weeks at the latest, Karl Imnant shall be Assistant Forester of the Grinderwald, and I ask the hand of your daughter Charlotte for this brave young man." At this request, Charlotte, who had blushed and trembled with fear, uttered a cry and fell back into her mother's arms. Her father looking at her severely, said: "What is the matter, Charlotte? Do you refuse?"
Fifteen days afterward, Karl Imnant received the appointment of forester, taking his father's place. Eight days later, he and Charlotte were married. The guests drank the rich Rikevir wine, so highly esteemed by Yeri Foerster, and which seemed to him to have arrived so opportunely for the feast. Mr. Zacharias Seiler was not present that day at the wedding, being ill at home.
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