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"I knew it could not be. There could be no one with thee in my chamber, and he lies." "No," replied Magdalena sadly, "thus far is true: There was a stranger by me in your chamber." "But who then? speak, Magdalena," urged Gottlob. "Clear yourself of the foul stigma of his tale." "I may not say!" replied the unhappy woman. "But God will prove my innocence in His own right time."
In another moment Gottlob had rushed into the water, to seize the body as it was whirled past the water-gate, and was almost dashed against the stone-piles. "Touch her not!" screamed again the bystanders. "It is the witch! it is the witch!" But Gottlob heeded not the shouts of the crowd.
Bertha's eyes streamed with tears; her pitying heart was tortured by this scene of sadness. "Blessings instead of curses upon those who have condemned her! Can that be guilt?" said gentle Gottlob to himself. "Can that be the spirit of the malicious and revengeful agent of the dark deeds of Satan? No she is innocent; and I will still save her, if human means can save!"
Gottlob sprang forward, horrified at being thus involved, even as an involuntary agent, in the hideous denunciation, and indignant at the supposition that he could work ill to the Amtmann's lovely daughter; and he protested, with all the vehemence which gentle natures, when roused into excitement, will display, against so unfounded and calumnious an accusation; whilst Bertha, joining together her small hands, as if in supplication, turned her face, with anxious expression, to her father, crying "No, no it cannot be!"
Then, fixing his eye keenly upon the Ober-Amtmann, as if to fascinate his attention, he burst into a fresh accusation against the sorceress, as having, in the first place, cast her spells upon the noble Fraulein Bertha, for the purpose of sowing the seeds of death within her frame; and as having, in the second place, employed the young man called "Gentle Gottlob" to be an involuntary agent in her work of ill.
His father and grandfather were state or municipal officials both; and bearing in mind Wagner's frank detestation of officialdom, the scientist can scarcely draw much comfort from that. The grandfather, Gottlob Friedrich Wagner, was born in 1736, only a few years later than Haydn.
And we drink a “Lebe hoch!” to Gottlob far away; and to Gottlob’s mother, and to Gottlob’s father, chinking our glasses merrily every time, and draining them after each draught on our thumb nails, to show how faithfully we have honoured the toasts. We shout “Vivat h-o-o-o;” till the old German oven quakes again.
Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, the proper founder of the family, who had come to Leipzig as a poor journeyman printer, was yet living, and occupied the Golden Bear, a respectable house in the new Newmarket, with Gottsched as an inmate. The son, Johann Gottlob Immanuel, had already been long married, and was the father of many children.
Luther had preached a sermon warning against the danger of indulgences on the Eve of All Saints . See below. See below, Letter to Leo X. Weimar Ed., I, 230. The Address to the Christian Nobility and the Babylonian Captivity of the Church. Introduction to the Complete Works ; above p.10. See Letter to Staupitz, below. See Letter to Leo X, below. Cf. Gottlob, Kreuzablass und Almosenblass, p.
During this examination the agitation of Magdalena had become extreme; and when, upon the Ober-Amtmann's command that the ring should be handed up to him, Gottlob removed it from his neck, and gave it into the hands of one of the guards, she cried, in much excitement, "No, no; give it not, Gottlob!"
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