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The women whispered among themselves, and then made signs to their husbands, or else said to them quietly: "Just let us alone we will drive the strange bird out all right." And a bitter, jeering laugh arose when it was rumored here and there, that Amrei had been a goose-girl. At last Amrei entered; but she could not offer, her hand to anybody.
But do you see those sheep coming yonder? Now I know another riddle." "No!" cried Damie, "no! Two are enough for me I can't remember three!" "Yes, you must hear this one too, or else I'll take the others back!" And Damie kept repeating to himself, anxiously: "A chain," "Eat it itself," while Amrei asked: "On which side have sheep the most wool?" "Ba! ba! on the outside!" she sang merrily.
Suppressing her tears, she seized her apron by the two ends and danced around by herself so gracefully and prettily, that all the children stopped to look at her. And presently the grown-up people were nodding to one another, and a circle of men and women was formed around Amrei.
On the way they met an older man going to the field with his scythe; and the old farmer walking with Amrei called out to him with a queer blink in his eyes: "Do you know if miserly Farmer Landfried is at home?" "I think so, but I don't know," answered the man with the scythe, and he turned away into the field. There was a peculiar twitching in his face.
"Oh," he answered, "so you were afraid, were you? Did you think I had gone off and left you? What would you think if I were to leave you here and simply ride away?" Amrei started, and then she said, severely: "I can't say that you are very witty; in fact to joke about such a thing as that is miserably stupid.
In the empty courtyard, across which somebody hurried every now and then, a solitary gendarme was pacing up and down. When he saw Amrei coming along with a radiant face, he approached her and said: "Good morning, Amrei! Art thou here too?" Amrei started and turned quite pale. Had she done anything punishable? Had she gone into the stable with a naked light?
"Oh, indeed!" said the old man bitterly. "Now look you, you saint from the lowlands; you're bringing a fine sort of peace into my house; you have managed already to make my wife turn against me you have captured her already. Well, I suppose you can wait until death has carried one off, and then you can do what you please." "No!" exclaimed Amrei, "I won't have that!
That's just like him to give a poor child a bad groschen!" "Why is it bad?" asked Amrei; and the tears came into her eyes. "Why, that's a bird groschen they're not worth full value they're worth only a kreutzer and a half." "Then he intended to give me only a kreutzer and a half," said Amrei decidedly. And here for the first time an inward contrast showed itself between Amrei and Black Marianne.
When Damie came soon afterward and heard of his uncle's departure, he wanted to run after him, and even Amrei felt a similar impulse. But she restrained herself and did not yield to it. She spoke and acted as if she were obeying some one's command in every word she said and in every movement she made; and yet her thoughts were wandering along the road by which her uncle had gone.
"Yes, but unless an angel comes down from the sky and asks me, I shall not get a partner," said Amrei, half in fun and half in sorrow.
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