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Updated: May 18, 2025
No Harmony there, but the great room was warm and cheery. The table was drawn near the stove and laid for Abendessen. The white porcelain coffee-pot had boiled and extinguished itself, according to its method, and now gently steamed. On to the kitchen.
I asked for Abendessen, and sat by the window looking at the darkness of the river below, the covered bridge, the dark hill opposite, crested with its few lights. Then I ate a very large quantity of knoedel soup and bread, and drank beer, and was very sleepy. Only one or two village men came in, and these soon went again; the place was dead still.
'Can I have a bed, I said, 'for the night? 'Abendessen, ja! she replied. 'Will you have soup and boiled beef and vegetables? I said I would, so I sat down to wait, in the utter silence. I could scarcely hear the ice-stream, the silence seemed frozen, the house empty. The woman seemed to be flitting aimlessly, scurriedly, in reflex against the silence.
The poor mother would eat but little Abendessen that night; and, as for the children that first night at school hard bed, hard words, strange boys bullying, and laughing, and jarring you with their hateful merriment as for the first night at a strange school, we most of us remember what THAT is. And the first is not the WORST, my boys, there's the rub.
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