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Updated: June 2, 2025
When the afternoon came the host took the ladies around his place, for his cousin was anxious to become acquainted with everything she had to take care of. "Oh, what an abundance of fruit!" Miss Grideelen exclaimed over and over again. "How many cherry trees and what enormous apple trees! Oh, what a row of pear trees! You must be able to fill your bins with fruit in the autumn, Mr. Hellmut!
Hellmut could not bear to see Cornelli's tears and still less to hear her supplications. "But for her own good it has to be," he said to himself to strengthen his resolution. Cornelli's lamentations were too much for him and he rushed away. Several hours later, the time had come for supper and he returned from the iron foundry.
Now you have come and brought me back my child so that she even resembles her mother in her eyes and her whole expression and appearance. My wife was friendly and gay, and now you tell me that this is Cornelli's disposition, too." "I have to tell you something else, Mr. Hellmut," Mrs. Halm continued. "I am perfectly sure that a child's first impressions are very important.
Where do you have room for it all?" "I do not know about it; my servants take care of that, for I have no time." "It is a great shame, Frederick, that you do not have half a dozen children. They would help to look after these matters," the cousin remarked. "By the way, I wonder where your child is. She does not seem to be very sociable." "I do not know where she is," replied Mr. Hellmut.
Hellmut went straight up to Cornelli's room. She was still kneeling at her bed in the same attitude, and still crying bitterly. "Get up, Cornelli, and stop crying," he said. "I meant well with you, but you did not understand me. You shall stay at home for the present; later on you may feel differently about it. You can go to Martha to-morrow. Listen well to her words, for she is your best friend."
Hellmut, how can I thank you?" she said, offering him her trembling hand. "I do not know how to express what is in my heart. How can I be grateful enough for such boundless kindness? You cannot know what your generosity means to us all." Even the children had understood that this unheard-of bliss was true.
Is that the reason why you don't want her to have such a beautiful home?" he asked with a sly smile. Agnes flushed scarlet. "Oh no, Mr. Hellmut, I did not mean it that way. I have never fought with Cornelli, and I only fight with Dino because he wants to have Cornelli all the time.
In the meantime you could get her more accustomed to the idea of leaving home, so that it would not scare her so dreadfully. I promise to do all I can too, Mr. Hellmut. I will tell her pleasant things about the school and the nice children that she might meet there." "That is a fine idea, Martha," Mr. Hellmut said, a little more calmly.
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