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Updated: June 6, 2025
I was trying to persuade myself I didn't care for what I now know I care for more than for life itself your love Anne." "For facts are stubborn things." "Silberbach! What in the name of everything that is eccentric should you go there for? The most uninteresting, out-of-the-way, altogether unattractive little hole in all Germany? What can have put Silberbach in your head?"
I am sure to wake often, and I will speak to you from time to time." That was the longest night of my life! The first part was not the worst. By what I really thought a fortunate chance it was a club night of some kind at Silberbach a musical club, of course; and all the musically-gifted peasants of the countryside assembled in the sanded parlour of the "Katze."
"Certainly not," I said, and with sincerity. "If it were necessary," she went on, "I hope I should be quite ready to live in a cottage and make the best of it cheerfully. But when it is not necessary? Don't you think, my dear friend, it would perhaps be wiser for you to arrange to spend your two or three weeks here, and not go on to Silberbach?
It turned out a long walk to Silberbach, the longest we had yet attempted.
"So!" he said, with a tone of amiable indulgence, "so! And what do you think of Silberbach? My wife feels sure you will not like it after all." "I think I shall see as much as I care to see of it in an hour or two to-morrow morning," I replied quietly. "And by the afternoon the children and I will go back to our comfortable quarters at Seeberg." "Ah, indeed!
He listened to me civilly enough, but when I waited for his reply as to whether the Einspänner would be ready about twelve o'clock, he calmly regarded me without speaking. I repeated my inquiry. "At twelve?" he said calmly. "Yes, no doubt the gracious lady might as well fix twelve as any other hour, for there was no such thing as a horse, much less an Einspänner, to be had at Silberbach."
The old man came out of his house, and seemed amused at our haste to be gone. "I am afraid Silberbach has not taken your fancy," he said. "Well, no wonder. I think it is the dreariest place I ever saw." "Then you do not belong to it? Have you not been here long?" I asked. He shook his head. "Only a few months, and I hope to get removed soon," he said. So he could have told me nothing, evidently!
I will hasten on and see for myself; and if, as I expect, we are really not very far from Silberbach, it will be all the better for me to find out the 'Katze, and see that everything is ready for your arrival."
Yes, my dear, I am unselfish enough to hope you will return having found Silberbach an earthly paradise." And waving her hand in adieu, kind Fräulein Ottilia stood at her garden-gate watching me make my way down the dusty road. "She is a little prejudiced, I daresay," I thought to myself.
It is never so bad where there are a few country houses near, for nowadays it must be allowed it is seldom but that the gentry take some interest in the people." "It is a pity no rich man takes a fancy to Silberbach," I said. "That day will never come. The best thing would be for a railway to be cut through the place, but that, too, is not likely."
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