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Updated: June 19, 2025
I saw Charlotte in the town; but the time seemed so long to us both that I ended by confessing all to my father, and he has promised to see Yeri tomorrow. Ah, Monsieur, I knew it would give such pleasure to Charlotte that I could not help coming to announce my good news." The poor old man fell back in his chair and covered his face with his hands. Oh, how he suffered!
No one, not even a female or a Yeri of the highest rank, might appear before them without uncovering the upper part of the body a token of respect which was usually paid only to the Gods in prayer or in passing a Marai. Before the princesses, the female sex only uncovered themselves. All his subjects were much attached to the sovereign, who reigned under a most singular law of succession.
"Welcome, Monsieur le Juge," he said in the frank and cordial voice of a mountaineer; "what happy circumstance has procured me the honor of a visit?" "Master Yeri," replied the good man, "I am belated in your mountains. Have you a vacant corner at your table and a bed at the disposition of a friend?"
Mademoiselle Charlotte merits all the good I have said of her." Then Master Yeri, raising his glass, cried out: "Let us drink to the health of our good and venerated Judge Zacharias Seiler!" The toast was drunk with a will. Just then the clock, in its hoarse voice, struck the hour of eleven.
"Poor, poor Zacharias," the old Judge murmured, "all your illusions are fled." At seven o'clock, having regained his usual calmness of demeanor, he descended to the room below, where Charlotte, Dame Christine and Yeri were already waiting breakfast for him. The old man, turning his eyes from the young girl, advanced to the Head Forester, saying: "My friend, I have a favor to ask of you.
No, they have but one idea, and that is to increase their store and to profit by their wealth by living well with their duchesses and little dukes at home. My grandfather Yéri, the forester, always said that a good hound should be lean, and I think the same of good generals and good soldiers. The poor fellows are always in working order, but our generals grow fat from their good dinners at home."
"Ah!" cried the corporal, "if there were but one bed in the house, should it not be at the service of the best, the most honored of our ex-magistrates of Stantz? Monsieur Seiler, what an honor you confer on Yeri Foerster's humble home." "Christine, Christine! Monsieur le Juge Zacharias Seiler wishes to sleep under our roof to-night."
Seiler wished to share all his occupations, following him in his rounds in the Grinderwald and Entilbach. Yeri Foerster often shook his head, saying: "I never knew a more honest or better judge than Mr. Zacharias Seiler. When I used to bring my reports to him, formerly, he always praised me, and it is to him that I owe my raise to the rank of Head Forester.
"And she she?" stammered Zacharias. "She loves me also! Oh, you need have no fear if you are one of her relations. We were betrothed at the Kusnacht feast. The fiancés of the Grinderwald and the Entilbach have the right to visit in the night. It is a custom of Unterwald. All the Swiss know that." "Yeri Foerster Yeri, Charlotte's father, never told me."
"Yes, he is twenty-one years old; he knows all about tree-clipping, which is the most necessary thing of all he knows how to read and how to write; but that is not all; he must have influence." "Well, Master Yeri, I still have some influence in the Department of Forests and Rivers.
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