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The day of his funeral, Van Haubitz, footsore and emaciated, and reduced to his last pfenning, walked wearily into the city of Amsterdam. There a great surprise awaited him. "Your father had not disinherited you?" I exclaimed, when the Dutchman made a momentary pause at this point of his narrative. "He had left a will devising his entire property to my brothers, and not even naming me.
"I do not care a pfenning for any Miss Schultz." The vicar looked much puzzled. "There was a young lady," he said, "waiting under that tree over there for her uncle who had gone, she said, to see Lady Shuttleworth's agent about the cottage by the gate. She said her uncle's name was Schultz." "She said she was Miss Ethel Schultz," said Robin.
"Ze Emberor himself would not have speak to me so! I come here as a favor her ladyshib do not offer me one pfenning, ach! ze music is not for such beoble! I shall brefer to blay to bigs! Zere is no art in zis country! And he began to make his way out of the room, when he was overtaken by Beau Lovelace, who had followed him in haste. "Where are you off to, Hermann?" he asked good-naturedly.
We send a man over who can speak their language, to fetch as many as he can early in the year, and they arrive with their bundles, men and women and babies, and as soon as they have got here and had their fares paid, they disappear in the night if they get the chance, sometimes fifty of them at a time, to go and work singly or in couples for the peasants, who pay them a pfenning or two more a day than we do, and let them eat with the family.
It was not to be expected that he would, but when the whisper circled round that Acton had "coached" him in classics it was agreed that perhaps there would be another feather in Acton's cap. The masters were there on the platform in serried ranks, the whole fifty of them, from Corker to Pfenning who "does" the music.
He paid the landlady her demand, two pfenning, or about an English halfpenny, and he of the pitchfork demanded trinkgeld, and getting a trifle more than usual, and seeing Gerard eye a foaming milk-pail he had just brought from the cow, hoisted it up bodily to his lips.
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