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Updated: June 29, 2025
He did it all quietly, without any fuss or attempt to reflect credit on himself, and left it to others to strangers, poetically inclined pupils or students on their travels to say that his conquest of the Friesenmoor was a Faust-like achievement. He had built a whole village for his laborers, to right and left of the highroad leading to Friesenmoor House.
As Paul begged him so earnestly to come to his festival, he accepted the invitation, and found himself, on the first of May, among the guests whom Malvine received on the steps of Friesenmoor House. In the great oak-paneled dining room, with its windows looking to the west, a banquet was laid for twenty-four guests. Following the country custom, they sat down to table at twelve o'clock.
On the first of May of the following year, which happened to fall on a Sunday, a long procession of carriages drove along the road from Harburg to Friesenmoor. They stopped at the entrance to the estate.
Not, however, that you need fire a single shot, it is more for the healthy out-of-door exercise, and to show you Friesenmoor in its winter dress, and for the society which will interest you.
Wilhelm declared firmly that he must leave his friend, and bringing his whole force of will to bear upon it, carried his intention through. The next day Paul's carriage took him to Harburg. The parting was trying to all of them. Paul's leave-taking was prolonged, and he made his friend promise he would return next year for some weeks at least to Friesenmoor House.
His wife wore perhaps rather more jewelry and followed the newest Paris fashions a trifle more closely than was absolutely necessary at Friesenmoor or even the Uhlenhorst, but as she remained as simple and unaffected as before, nobody could think any the worse of her for this small inherited weakness.
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