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Updated: May 31, 2025
Was it that this new way was really more suited to her nature than the old? The two girls studied together every day Elsli's lessons for the morrow, greatly to the pleasure and advantage of both.
"Come into the house, Elsli," said the doctor's wife; "you look very tired. Hans, if you will get down and come into the house yourself, you shall have a piece of bread and an apple. Come." "If you won't come," said her sister, "you can stay here, while Rudi and Heili come with me and get bread and apples. They can walk, without hanging on to Elsli's skirts and tearing her to pieces. Come, boys!"
Fani had seated himself again at Elsli's side, but at these words he sprang again to his feet, crying out reproachfully: "Oh, Elsli, what strange notions have you taken into your head? It isn't pleasant in you to talk so. Why don't you think of all the nice things there are, and what good times we have together, and let all these melancholy ideas go?"
She had never since that day talked with him as she used to do; but often he was aware that she was looking at him, long and thoughtfully. In Elsli's heart, too, anxiety reigned supreme; not so much for herself as for Fani. Mrs.
She sat down by the bedside holding Elsli's trembling hand in her own and gently pressing it from time to time. Elsli began: "I want to tell you something that I ought to have spoken of long ago. It was not right for me to go on as I have been doing without telling you; and I am afraid Mrs. Stanhope will be very much displeased when she knows about it"
Time had softened her sorrow for the loss of her boy, so that this resemblance endeared Fani to her, while in Elsli's case, a similar likeness to Nora had only made it the more difficult to receive one who was brought to her to take Nora's place, while she was still stunned with the grief of the recent parting. Her first thought now was for Elsli.
The children at Rosemount were allowed to come for a few minutes at a time into Elsli's room. They were charged to bring only cheerful faces, and not to trouble her with their grief. They brought her flowers from the garden, and sometimes they read to her from the books she loved. Fani especially was very tender and devoted, and Elsli took great satisfaction in having him with her.
So Nora talked on about the heavenly land, and Elsli's eyes grew larger as the glories of the future life were pictured to her, and a wholly new world opened before her. Time flew rapidly by, and they did not notice its passage. Meantime, in the house of Dr. Stein, life was moving on in a much more lively manner. After school, Oscar, Emma, and Fred had started off, each in a different direction.
If I don't help them, they will never get through; they will suffer in silence. They are just like us at home." Elsli's sobs prevented her from saying any more. The remembrance of her early sufferings and the thought of her parents' trials came over her like a flood, and she sobbed as if her heart would break.
Stein soon saw the truth, from Elsli's answers to her many questions. "Dear little Nora!" she said sadly. "Her sufferings are over forever. She has gone to heaven to be at rest." Elsli stood as if struck by lightning. "Is she gone? Is Nora really gone to heaven?" she exclaimed, and then she burst into tears, and trembled so that she could scarcely stand.
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