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Updated: September 24, 2025
And just as then for the first time the stars of heaven are visible, one also sees much on earth that one never sees by day. Now in the light of the red buds of the Jericho rose one could see a crowd of strange figures in Mamsell Fredrika's drawing-room.
It was a Jericho rose, brought back by Mamsell Fredrika from the far East. Now in the Christmas night it began to blossom quite of itself. The dry twigs were covered with red buds, which shone like sparks of fire and lighted the whole room. By the light of the sparks one saw that a small and slender but quite elderly lady sat in the big arm-chair and held her court.
Demon Newswriter says, of the Concert: "It is mostly of wind-instruments," King himself often taking part with his flute; "performers the best in Europe. He has three" what shall we call them? of male gender, "a counter-alt, and Mamsell Astrua, an Italian; they are unique voices. He cannot bear mediocrity. It is but seldom he has any singing here.
When I have talked to one as to a human being, she always began to yawn." "Really?" said the girl sadly. "Or is it that it happened two or three times as you say, and then you frightened all the rest?" "It may be. But it's not a question of much importance." "Why not!" she asked excitedly. "Because the most that could come out of it would be a silly love-story, Mamsell the same old silly story."
The fine black eyebrows increased the expression, the whole figure was as if breathed into the picture. Now followed a new picture Faust and Margaret in the arbor; behind stood Mephistophiles, with his devilish smile. The Kammerjunker's Mamsell was Margaret. When the doors were opened she sent forth aloud cry, and ran away; she would not stay, she was so afraid.
Thereupon the dead swarmed out of the church, and Mamsell Fredrika wiped away a tear from the corner of her eye. "I will not go home with you," said her dead sister. "Will you not stop here now also?" "I should like to, but I cannot. There is a book which I must make ready first."
Then the next morning Mamsell Manon came and talked to me, and cried dreadfully, and stroked my cheeks, and I understood her all right in spite of that jabbering French. Mamsell thought a cousin of hers had got the Baron put in prison, because he was jealous. I don't know what more she said, but I soon found out what she wanted, and my hair stood on end.
One year, that she might make all fully clear and put the finishing-touch on her life's work. For Death was too prompt for Mamsell Fredrika. There was a storm outside on that New Year's night; there was a storm within her soul. She felt all the agony of life and death coming to a crisis. "Anguish!" she sighed, "anguish!"
Herr Leinhose shot out of the door, and returned with a glass of cold water. "Here, Mamsell," he said as gently as a child's nurse, "drink a mouthful of this!" Frau Marianne looked up in amazement; such a note in his voice she had never heard! The two men had always been well taken care of, only too well, by her, and they had absolutely no excuse for seeking revenge upon her for fancied wrongs.
Death rides about on the road to the church to meet the last one of us. Before the next midnight mass she will be dead, the last old Mamsell. "Sisters, sisters! We are the lonely ones of the earth, the neglected ones at the feast, the unappreciated workers in the homes. We are met with scorn and indifference. Our way is weary and our name is ridicule. "But God has had mercy upon us.
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