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"It will not do for you to accompany us," said Magde in a firm and motherly tone, "you are ill, and therefore had better return." "I am afraid," replied Nanna trembling violently, "that I shall be obliged to do so. Give my love to him, and tell him " and now her long suppressed tears burst forth in torrents "tell him if I do not come, it is not because I do not love him."
I knew full well that the proud and conscientious Magde, would not deny that he had brought it home." "But who could have have " "Right, who could have believed that he would have done so, and that is the very point, and an unlucky one, for it proves that he must have been seen while committing the theft." "How terrible this is!
Finally the bitter moment was over; the boat rapidly proceeded from the land; but so long as they could discern the old man's white locks fluttering in the breeze and even until the boat appeared a speck in the distance, Nanna and Magde remained on the shore gazing out upon the water.
Fabian had an opportunity of gazing upon her lovely neck for a full moment, to prolong which he would have given the value of a hundred hares and partridges. But Magde arousing herself from her stupor, looked her guest full in the face, and there read an expression which displeased her.
In the afternoon, after the old man had retired to his comfortable bed, now doubly comfortable to him, to rest himself awhile, and Magde was seated by his bedside pleasantly chatting with him, while Carl was busy making little boats for the children, Nanna and Gottlieb were seated near the spring beneath the tree, in the meadow.
There was a man to whom Magde had invariably conducted herself with cool indifference, and who, after having been defeated by her in the manner which we have before described bestowed upon her a parting glance which had caused her to shudder as if she had trodden upon a serpent. And he was indeed a serpent in human guise, for soon she felt the delayed sting of the venomous reptile.
She, had she so chosen, could have abused him as if he had been a dog, and like a cur he would have crept back to kiss the hand which had maltreated him. Magde, however, was soft-hearted, and did not abuse her power over the singular boy; but she compelled him to labor with much more assiduity than he had formerly. When at home, Carl generally performed the duties of a nursery maid.
"Silence, child," interrupted Magde, "you do not know the insults to which we females of humble birth are exposed." "We are not born that we should thus be insulted," said Nanna. "True, true; but then we should have been born as deformed and ugly as those sins, which even our modesty will not preserve us from being suspected of." "Can that be possible!" thought Nanna.
The two latter articles of furniture were specimens of Carl's workmanship. Carl, when he chose to display his ability, was a skillful carpenter, and formerly Nanna was his special favorite. Of late, however, it could readily be perceived that Magde possessed his affections.
There reposed in these words a tone of mingled fear and humility, and Magde, much moved by the peculiar expression of Carl's countenance, replied: "Certainly, Carl, I would shed many, many tears, for I believe there are none who love you as I do."
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