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Updated: May 31, 2025
But the uncle lifted up the clothes, pointed to the worn-out elbows, and said to Farmer Rodel: "These are worth very little I won't have them valued at much. I don't even know if I can wear them over in America, without being laughed at." Amrei seized the coat passionately.
Amrei felt the taunt, but kept her temper; and John's sister was the first to take the glass and drink to her. She first clinked her glass against John's with a "May God bless you!" She only half responded to Amrei, who also held out her glass.
And a fourth observed: "I'll wager he's another suitor for Amrei." Barefoot started. What did this mean? What was that she said? But she soon found out the meaning of it, for the first old lady resumed: "Then I'm sorry for him; for the Butter Countess makes fools of all the men." And so the Butter Countess's name was also Amrei.
"I'll keep that as an earnest from you," answered Amrei slyly; "you shall see, I will give you value for it." Farmer Rodel laughed to himself half angrily, and Amrei went back to Black Marianne with money, wine, and meat. The house was locked; and there was a great contrast between the loud music and noise and feasting at the wedding house, and the silence and solitude here.
Never had a poor child been so much noticed in the village as was this little Amrei. But, as she grew older, less attention was paid to her, for people look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other. Before Amrei's school-days were over, Fate gave her a riddle that was difficult to solve.
Amrei consented without much ceremony, and won Ameile's heart by the first words she spoke; for she said: "I will fall to at once, for I must confess that I am hungry, and I don't want to put you to the trouble of having to urge me."
The gardes-champêtres of the two dominions also used to pass by often, the barrels of their muskets shining as they approached and gleaming long after they had passed. Amrei was almost always accosted by the garde-champêtre of Endringen as she sat by the roadside, and he often made inquiries of her as to whether this or that person had passed by.
There arose in her a quiet feeling of contentment, which was heightened by the thought: "Well, for once you have been looked upon as a person; until now you have been nothing but a servant, a convenience for others. Good night, Amrei this has been a day indeed! But even this day must come to an end at last."
"My horses are warm and must not drink now. Do you come from Haldenbrunn, my girl?" "Yes indeed." "And what is your name?" "Amrei." "And to whom do you belong?" "To nobody now my father was Josenhans." "What! Josenhans, who served at Farmer Rodel's?" "Yes." "I knew him well. It was too bad that he died so soon. Wait, child I'll give you something."
And now the time before his end had really come, when he no longer gave away merely bad grosschens; it did him good to donate at last a part of his possessions having some real significance and value. For one evening he called Amrei out behind the house and said to her: "Look, my girl, you are good and sensible, but you don't know just how it is with a man.
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