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She vowed she would treasure them as long as she lived, and then they should be Moidel's. As soon as our plots were revealed, we found that counterplots had been carried on by the Hof family.

The spacious rooms, always deliciously cool, were fragrant with rare and delicate blossoms Alpine roses from the rocks, white lilies from Moidel's special little garden-plot, grasses and nodding flowers, campanulas, veronicas, melisot, potentillas and lady's bedstraw, which, according to Anton, no cattle would touch, whilst the roots of others were good for man or beast, their various qualities being all known to him.

It is considered to enhance the value of the butter Kugel or ball, especially when given to the priest in payment for masses said for dead relations. The Ursuline Sisters were paid for Moidel's education in butter. And the native cheese! meagre cheese, as it is justly called a poor, insipid, not overclean curd cheese.

In Moidel's tale we had almost forgotten our long walk back to the barn and the arrangement for supper previously at the huts.

Now, it fell to Moidel's duty to feed this silent, heavy dog, whereupon he, rising gradually out of his secret woes, became her constant docile companion, following her seriously and silently like a shadow, and looking gravely mortified when she refused his attendance at church.

After Moidel's tale, and certain recollections of our own concerning the little hostel last year, we all approached the house with very humble expectations.