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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Barefoot," for so Amrei was now called, was handy in every way, and knew how to make herself liked by everybody; she could tell the young farmer's wife, who had come to the place as a stranger, what the customs of the village were; she studied the habits and characters of those around her and learned to adapt herself to them.
So they dismounted, and John led the horse with one hand and held Amrei with the other. Thus they went on in silence, and as often as they looked at each other, their faces shone like those of children newly waked from sleep; but as often as they looked down, they became thoughtful and anxious about the immediate future.
"Why, that's the Farmer himself," said the woman; and she welcomed the old man home by taking his hat from his head and hanging it up on a peg over the stove. "Do you see now?" said the old man to Amrei, triumphantly. "Now say what you like." "Won't you sit down," said the mother, pointing to a chair.
And do you see the cows, which look as small as beetles? That's our upland pasture, that's where I intend to put your Damie." Amrei cried out in amazement: "Good heavens! To think where men will venture! But that must be good pasturing land." "So it is; but when father gives up the farm to me, I shall introduce more stall-feeding it's the better way.
Suddenly an indescribable anxiety about Damie seized her; she ran back, and there was Damie, sitting astride a branch and leaning back against the trunk of the tree with his arms folded. "Come down! I'll promise you what you want!" cried Amrei; and in a moment Damie was down on the ground beside her.
This injunction was so well obeyed, that within a few minutes every person in the room knew about the bag of thalers, with the exception of John's sister, who afterward took great credit to herself for having been so friendly to Amrei, although she thought that Amrei had not a farthing of her own. Sure enough!
They came upon an old woman by the road-side, and it gave Amrei a thrill of satisfaction she never before had felt to be able to throw out a pair of shoes to her.
He must be looking for some one else. "No, it's you I want," said the lad, taking Barefoot's hand. "Will you dance?" Amrei could not speak. But what need was there to speak? She threw everything she had in her arms down into a corner jackets, neckerchiefs, caps, pipes, and door-keys and stood there ready.
"How do you mean? You will not go with me at all?" Amrei started; for she suddenly realized what she had said, and it seemed to her almost as if it had been an inspiration. But presently she answered: "No, I don't know about that yet. I merely meant to say, that I shall not willingly leave this house until I have seen everything again. Come, Damie, you are my brother come up into the attic.
As they ride along they talk and sing and tell stories and enjoy themselves as only lovers can. At Amrei's request, they stop on the way to see Damie, who is with Coaly Mathew in the forest; Amrei tells him all that has happened, and John promises to make him an independent herdsman, and gives him a silver-mounted pipe.
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