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The twins, who had already for a long time been standing at the window, looking out with eager sparkling eyes, broke out into a loud demonstration of joy. Frau Elsbeth gave them a quiet smile and turned to Paul, who sat silently in his corner and went on cutting little sticks to tie up the flowers, as if all this did not concern him at all. "Will you not come, too?" she asked.
Clutterbuck chuckled when he understood her. "Why should it make me melancholy? Not for a moment dear me no." "Thank you, Timothy, but I'm coming in," said Miss Eliot. "Elsbeth, here's a shawl." "I'm coming in," Elsbeth murmured with her eye to the telescope. "Cassiopeia," she murmured. "Where are you all?" she asked, taking her eye away from the telescope. "How dark it is!" Mrs.
Such a Christmas festival as was celebrated two days later in the stone hut, neither Elsbeth nor Toni had ever known before, for the candles which his mother had lighted shone out upon a quantity of things, which Toni had received to wear, and also a whole set of the most beautiful knives for carving and a book with pictures, of a size and beauty such as Toni had never in all his life seen before.
Nobody came, and anxiety rose within him. With groping hand he searched for the gap in the fence which Elsbeth had shown him once, and when he had found it he penetrated to the inner garden. The branches tore his clothes as, in a sort of wilderness, he crept along the ground to find a path. At last he came to an open place.
"Care stood at his cradle," answered Frau Elsbeth, gently and sadly; "that's why he has that old face." "Oh, you must not be superstitious, dear friend," answered the visitor. "I have been told that newborn babes often have something old in their features; they soon lose that." "Surely you, too, have children?" asked Frau Elsbeth.
The Erdmanns must have understood that on this subject he would not stand any joking, and made no further attempts to tease him about Elsbeth. The confirmation took place on the last Sunday before Whitsuntide.
So Toni objected no longer, but said he would be glad to do something and not let his mother work alone. Then it occurred to Elsbeth that, if Toni was going to be away the whole summer she could perhaps go to one of the big hotels in Interlaken where so many strangers go for the summer. There she could earn a good sum of money and meet the coming winter without anxiety.
"I must beg silence there," he said; "it is I who put the questions. On a repeated interruption I shall have you taken out of court. So, Mr. Paul Meyerhofer, what were you going to do in the garden of Helenenthal?" At the same moment there arose a fresh murmur in the background, and in the witness-box a circle formed itself around Elsbeth. "What is the matter over there?" asked the president.
They must certainly have been relinquished on some definite mutual understanding, and at a "compensation" agreed upon between him and Elsbeth and his step-son, Franz Schmidt; because it must have been Holbein himself who enabled Franz, acting on his mother's behalf, to take over as he did the entire legacy a snug little competency in itself to which Holbein fell heir in this autumn by the bequest of his uncle, Sigmund Holbein, citizen of Berne.
Thus he translated the "Buch der Lieder" into his own language. A short time afterwards he heard that Mrs. Douglas had been ordered by the doctor to make a prolonged stay in the South, and that Elsbeth would accompany her thither. "It is all right so," he said to himself. "She will no longer haunt me, then."
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