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Updated: June 14, 2025
My half-emptied pipkin was thankfully taken by another man, under the pretence of “cleaning it.” One of my fellow-prisoners approached me. “It is getting late,” said he; “do you know what you have got to do?” “No.” “The devil!” “With all my heart.” “Have you a rug?” “No.” “You must ask the Corporal, at seven o’clock; but I dare say the Vater will find you one—for a ‘mass-bier’—if you ask him.”
Let us therefore pray a pious Vater unser for her soul, and turn our thoughts to other matters, for there is a time for everything. I write this in the house of Madame d'Epinay and M. Grimm, with whom I now live; I have a pretty little room with a very agreeable prospect, and am as happy as it is possible to be under my present circumstances.
Two of the older girls seize the figure by the arms and walk in front: all the rest follow two and two. Boys may take no part in the procession, but they troop after it gazing with open-mouthed admiration at the "beautiful Death." So the procession goes through all the streets of the village, the girls singing the old hymn that begins "Gott mein Vater, deine Liebe Reicht so weit der Himmel ist,"
Ab in Hebrew, abba in Syriac, pater in Greek and Latin, vater in Low Dutch, pere in French, padre in Spanish and Italian, father in English ay, even the child's papa and the infant's daddy all come from one root. But this cutting away of superfluities to get at the root, is precisely what a 'prentice hand should not attempt; like an unskilled gardener, he will prune away the wrong branches."
Now good-night, Gentlemen: shortly we have either beaten the Enemy, or we never see one another again." An excellent temper in this Army; a rough vein of heroism in it, steady to the death; and plenty of hope in it too, hope in Vater Fritz. "Never mind," the soldiers used to say, in John Duke of Marlborough's time, "Corporal John will get us through it!"
"Heyday! were have you come from? who are you? what do you want?" cried the Englishwoman, pulling the bell, which made no sound. "The bells dey are in cotton-vool, but hafe not any fear I shall go 'vay," said he. "Dat is dirty tousant franc I hafe tron in de vater. Are you dat mistress of Mensieur Lucien de Rubempre?"
Rob did not clearly understand what had happened, but he hated to see papa unhappy, so he lifted up the bent head, and said, in his chirpy little voice, "Don't cry, mein Vater! we were all so good, we did our lessons, without you, and Franz was the master." Mr. Bhaer looked up then, tried to smile, and said in a grateful tone that made the lads feel like saints, "I thank you very much, my boys.
"You vill zee dthree volcano near Guatemala; dthey air dthe 'spirits' of dthe place call in Eenglish 'Air, 'Fire' and 'Vater. Zee on dthis leedle coin dthey haf all dthree mountains on dthe back." "Why, what's the matter with your hands?" I say, taking the coin.
Ven der vinter comes und I haf dot deliciousness sauerkraut, und am eating it, und ven your mouts vater so dot you slobber like a colt off der clover, den ah, den, I gifs you der ha-ha, ain'dt it? Den you see who der knitting und der tatting do, eh?" Carl laughed at the thought of how the boys would miss the sauerkraut which he was going to make.
They brushed past Scipio at the door, and were pushing up the long flight when they were stopped on the landing by Dr. Leiden. "How is my father, sir?" Grafton cried, "and why was I not informed at once of his illness? I must see him." "Your vater can see no one, Mr. Carvel," said the doctor, quietly. "What," says my uncle, "you dare to refuse me?"
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