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God grant they may neither take the town, nor set it on fire over our heads with their shells. 'We must all do our best to prevent it, said Hillner boldly. 'God gave us strong arms and brave hearts for that very purpose. A small German coin. The tower of St. Peter's Church rises high into the air above all the other buildings of Freiberg.
"No; but music of that sort I should enjoy," said Dorothea. "When we were coming home from Lausanne my uncle took us to hear the great organ at Freiberg, and it made me sob." "That kind of thing is not healthy, my dear," said Mr. Brooke. "Casaubon, she will be in your hands now: you must teach my niece to take things more quietly, eh, Dorothea?"
The poor missionary had his fit of tertian fever, and besought us to re-embark immediately after midnight. The rock is on the east bank; it is a shelf of granite, covered with psora, cladonia, and other lichens. I could have fancied myself transported to the north of Europe, to the ridge of the mountains of gneiss and granite between Freiberg and Marienberg in Saxony.
So they sang, and their voices sounded far out into the night; they knelt, and their pastor invoked God's blessing on them for the approaching battle, for victory, if so it might be, or for a happy and joyous entrance into the better land. With the exception of babes and very young children, no one in Freiberg slept that night. All were wakeful and astir.
'My poor mother, cried her warm-hearted son, 'and has it come to this that in our own Freiberg, where not even a beggar is allowed to starve, the good and honoured wife of the town servant himself cannot get enough to eat? 'Your father locks everything up as if I was a thief, said the woman, 'and he has been out ever since mid-day, so we couldn't get anything.
We played a game of billiards together, and he chatted with me about America, and asked me about my mining studies at Freiberg; and I thought him about the best fellow I'd ever met. But I didn't know then I hadn't any conception what a splendid fellow he really was. If ever I hear anybody talking of their ideal of a gentleman, I shall ask them if they ever met Ambrose Drayton." "What did he do?"
We passed through Saxon Altenburg, Zwickau, Lichtenstein, Chemnitz, Oderan, Freiberg, Tharant, and Wildsruf, and arrived in the evening of the fifth day at Dresden.
'To our trusty, best, and right well-beloved Burgomaster, Herr Jonas Schönleben, Be it known that I have kept the messengers by me, that their bodily eyes might see my army set forward on its march, and that thus they might take assured news thereof into the good city of Freiberg. May God have all in his keeping!
The soldier that tried to kill me spoke good German, and he wore a blue doublet with bright yellow facings. 'God help us! cried the peasant. 'They are the Swedes, sure enough; I have known the blue doublets ever since 1639, the year they did so much harm to Erbisdorf, when General Bannier made his attack on Freiberg.
Who would not have trembled for Freiberg at sight of that veteran army, trained in long and stormy years of battle, and led by a renowned general, bent on destroying the city and putting all its inhabitants men and women, old and young to the sword? Ambition and shame alike stimulated the Swedish general, as he thought how this insignificant country town had so long thwarted all his best efforts.
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