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Updated: May 16, 2025
She was even to be called upon for poetical effusions for special occasions; under the great Saint Christopher's cloak that she wore winter and summer alike beat a feeling heart, and a noble soul dwelt in the big strong body. She was only too glad to go up to the Ettersberg as Beate's chaperon. It was the beginning of winter when they sent for her.
The suitors looked extremely impatient. Beate's eyes were fastened longingly on the stranger, as if he were cutting the bread of life for her. To be sure, it seemed rather crusty and brittle but there was something there that had a nourishing flavor. The stranger's nose had a peculiar shape.
Frau Rauchfuss had taken care to provide a capable woman to look after the house and a bailiff for the estate, so that Beate's inheritance might be kept in good condition in spite of her light-headed father. In this plain and thrifty company Herr Rauchfuss was not at all at his ease.
It was true, she had often wished that the Kirsten girls and their friends whom she met at the sewing-school and now and then at the Sperbers' would come up and see her; but then the thought came ... suppose they were to see her father as she often saw him and the desire for company went out. But Beate's loneliness had been a wonderfully strenuous loneliness.
They wanted, in his last hour, to be near the old fellow who had led his life as foolishly and light-heartedly as most people, both for his own sake and for Beate's. And so they sat in an adjoining room, while Herr Rauchfuss prepared himself amid great sufferings for his long journey; they sat and drank coffee, which the housekeeper was always making fresh, and ate ham sandwiches.
But the girl whom he caressed with his eyes and passed his hand over her hair this little goose !" He grasped angrily at Beate's hand. "Let us go, Mamsell," he cried "let us go!"
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