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"Frau Holle," he said, "Frau Holle, Gracious Lady, we want to get engaged." Frau Holle burst out laughing: "A mortal child and a Kobold of the forest! nonsense, it's impossible!" Käthchen lifted up her brown eyes. "We might play at it," she said. "It would be a beautiful game." Frau Holle chuckled so much at this that she nearly upset the milk jug. "How do people get engaged?" said Käthe.
He was fortunate enough at that time to get a small gold ring from you, and now you wear his, so that your betrothal is indissoluble." "What?" cried Fräulein Aennchen, in fear and amazement. "What? I betrothed to him I to marry that horrible little kobold? Haven't I been engaged for ever so long to Herr Amandus von Nebelstern? No, never will I have that hideous monster of a wizard for a husband.
How could she have suspected that what stirred her passionate soul so fiercely was grief at the sight of the man whom she had regarded as the stronghold of integrity, the possessor of the firmest will, the soul of inviolable fidelity, succumbing here, before the eyes of all, like a dissolute weakling, to the seductive arts of an immature kobold?
"To set the fox to keep the geese," interrupted Thusnelda in her lively manner. "No, not that, Fraulein," said Count Werther, quite confused, as the duke burst into a merry laugh, calling Thusnelda a witty Kobold, and as her faithful Celadon offered her his arm to conduct her to his mother, the Duchess Amelia. The company were all in a very happy frame of mind.
And all the place was filled with a goblin bustle, trollish racketings, ringing of gnomish anvils, clanging of kobold forges a clamorous cavern filled with metal Nibelungens. We came to the opening of another passage, a doorway piercing the walls of the workshop. Its incline, though steep, was not dangerous. Into it we stepped; climbed onward it seemed interminably.
But there is one little story of the Danish Nis who answers to the German Kobold which I may tell you, because it is like the story of Hodeken which you have just read, and shows that the creatures were of the same kind. There was a Nis in Jutland who was very much teased by a mischievous boy.
Hatteraick jumped upright upon his feet, and looked at Glossin from head to heel. 'I don't see the goat's foot, he said, 'and yet he must be the very deyvil! But Meg Merrilies is closer yet with the kobold than you are; ay, and I had never such weather as after having drawn her blood.
When her work engrossed her attention, she bit her protruded tongue, and her raven-black hair, usually remarkably smooth, often became so oddly dishevelled, that she looked like a kobold; when, on the other hand, she talked pleasantly or jested, no one could help being pleased. The child was rarely gifted, and her method of working was an exact contrast to that of the German lad.
"I trust you are satisfied, ma'am," the kobold added, after a moment's vain expectation of a word from Juliet, "that your secret is safe with me." "I am," answered Juliet, with a condescending motion of her stately neck, saying to herself in feeling if not in conscious thought, "After all he is hardly human! I may accept his devotion as I would that of a dog!"
But he reproved her conduct, and even struggled with the kobold who tried to prevent his releasing her from the crab. The elf proved stronger than he. The terrible shears continued to torture her. The more she suffered, the more eagerly Lienhard seemed trying to help her, and this soothed her and blended a sweet sense of comfort with the burning pain.
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