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Updated: September 10, 2025
It was already dark, when Elsbeth finally came to herself and could think of her child. The little one was still sitting beside her on the ground, with both hands pressed to his eyes, and sobbing pitifully. His mother lifted him up. "Come, Toneli, we must go home; it is late," she said, taking him by the hand. But he resisted. "No, no, we must wait for Father!" he said and pulled his mother back.
The warm air trembled, and yellow butterflies fluttered up and down in couples. Paul leaned back in the cushions, and gazed with half-shut eyes at this profusion of charming sights. "Are you happy?" asked Elsbeth, leaning towards him. "I don't know," he answered; "it is too much for me." She smiled; she well understood him.
No angry word is spoken among you, and when your mother at last closes her eyes she will perhaps do so with a smile on her lips, and be able to say, 'I have always been very happy. Do tell me what more can you wish for?" "But she shall not die, cried Elsbeth. "Why not? he asked, 'is death so terrible?" "Not for her but for myself.
It was too much for poor Elsbeth, that the only possession she had on earth, and the one she loved with all her heart, her Toni, should be lost to her, and in such a sad way! She forgot everything around her.
I saw Doreen and Elsbeth playing cricket with Joyce to-day in a way that absolutely made me shudder. She should show them how to hold their bats, and never allow leg-before-wicket even with the veriest kid. It's no use letting them start bad habits, is it? My suggestion is that you form yourselves into a club; let the elder ones be officers, and give efficiency badges for certain things.
A little later he felt his knees resting on a soft cushion and the hand of the vicar on his head. What he said to him he did not hear. He saw Elsbeth on the other side, crying quietly with her handkerchief to her eyes, and thought, "Ah, cry away, cry away, you will soon laugh again."
His mother was very much shocked and wanted to travel the next day to see for herself if her child was very ill. But the Pastor said that would not do, but that she should wait until the doctor allowed a visit, and she could be sure that Toni was receiving the best care. With a heavy heart Elsbeth went back to her cottage.
Elsbeth finally thought the farmer understood it much better than she, and so it was decided that the next week, when the cows went up to the mountain pasture, Toni should go with them. "He shall have a good bit of money and a new suit of clothes when he comes down. That will be a help for the winter," said the farmer finally. Elsbeth thanked him as she said good-by, and turned homeward.
And in this tone he swaggered on. Then suddenly he came quite close to Douglas, as if he wanted to put a pistol to his head, crying, "Then will you take shares in it sir?" Douglas caught a glance from his wife, who quietly pointed towards Frau Elsbeth, and made him a beseeching sign; then he said, half amused, half angry, "I don't mind."
Frau Elsbeth began at once to cry, while the visitor, as if she had been an old friend, put her arm round her neck, kissed her on the brow, and said, with a soft, comforting voice: "Do not be angry with me. Fate has ordained that I should drive you from this house; but it is no fault of mine.
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