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Updated: June 22, 2025
The dishes were marvelous side-dishes of emeralds, and roasts of gold on silver salvers. Every one ate heartily except the bride, who begged her husband for a little bread. "Bring the copper bread," said the King of the Mines. Marienka could not eat it. "Bring the silver bread," said he. Marienka could not eat it. "Bring the gold bread," said he, at length. Marienka could not eat it.
"Mothers never know what they are saying," thought Marienka, and she went out shrugging her shoulders. The third night the mother could not sleep for anxiety. As she lay awake, praying for her daughter, behold! Marienka burst into a loud fit of laughter. "Oh!" said the mother, "what can the unhappy child be dreaming now?" And she continued to pray till daylight.
I dreamed that a nobleman came here for me in a silver coach, and that he offered me a golden diadem. And when I entered the church the people looked at me more than they did at the blessed Virgin." "Hush! you are blaspheming. Pray, my daughter, pray that you may not fall into temptation." But Marienka ran away to escape her mother's sermon. The same day a carriage entered the yard.
She had suitors from all sides, but none satisfied her; the more they tried to please her the more she disdained them. One night, when the poor mother could not sleep, she took her beads and began to pray for her dear child, who gave her more than one care. Marienka was asleep by her side. As the mother gazed lovingly at her beautiful daughter, Marienka laughed in her sleep.
It was thus that the rich Marienka lived in her castle, dying of hunger, and seeking in vain for a root to allay the torture that was consuming her. God had humbled her by granting her prayer. Three days in the year, the Rogation Days, when the ground half opens to receive the fruitful rain sent by the Lord, Marienka returns to the earth.
The next night the mother waked, took her beads, and prayed still more earnestly for her daughter, when, behold! Marienka laughed again as she was sleeping. "I wonder what she is dreaming," said the mother, who prayed, unable to sleep. "My dear child," she said the next morning, "what did you dream last night that you laughed aloud?" "What did I dream, mamma?
I dreamed that a nobleman came here for me in a copper coach, and that he put a ring on my finger set with a stone that sparkled like the stars. And when I entered the church the people had eyes for no one but the blessed Virgin and me." "My daughter, my daughter, that was a proud dream!" said the mother, shaking her head. But Marienka went out singing. The same day a wagon entered the yard.
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