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Updated: June 5, 2025
When the evening of the last day came we stayed out too long; Seppi and I were in fault for that; we could not bear to part with Nikolaus; so it was very late when we left him at his door. We lingered near awhile, listening; and that happened which we were fearing. His father gave him the promised punishment, and we heard his shrieks.
But we listened only a moment, then hurried away, remorseful for this thing which we had caused. And sorry for the father, too; our thought being, "If he only knew if he only knew!" In the morning Nikolaus did not meet us at the appointed place, so we went to his home to see what the matter was.
Don't let it happen. I can't bear to lose Nikolaus, he is my loving playmate and friend; and think of Lisa's poor mother!" I clung to him and begged and pleaded, but he was not moved. He made me sit down again, and told me I must hear him out. "I have changed Nikolaus's life, and this has changed Lisa's.
Nikolaus said: "Father Peter, with the exception of the astrologer you haven't a real enemy in the village nor Marget, either. And not even a half-enemy that's rich enough to chance eleven hundred ducats to do you a mean turn. I'll ask you if that's so or not?" He couldn't get around that argument, and it cheered him up. "But it isn't mine, you see it isn't mine, in any case."
He said it placidly, but it took our breath for a moment and made our hearts beat. He did not seem to notice that, but mended our halberdiers and things with a touch, handing them to us finished, and said, "Don't you remember? he was an angel himself, once." "Yes it's true," said Seppi; "I didn't think of that." "Before the Fall he was blameless." "Yes," said Nikolaus, "he was without sin."
Three months later he answered with money her request for house-rent, and in a will dated May 5, 1801, occurs this clause, cancelling his former agreement, and making new provisions: "To the widow Aloysia Polzelli, formerly singer at Prince Nikolaus Esterházy's, payable in ready money six months after my death, 100 florins, and each year from the date of my death, for her life ... 150 florins.
He took out his watch and sat looking at it a few moments, then said: "Nikolaus has risen to close the window. His life is changed, his new career has begun. There will be consequences." It made me feel creepy; it was uncanny. "But for this change certain things would happen twelve days from now. For instance, Nikolaus would save Lisa from drowning.
Then he turned to Nikolaus and said: "No, the Fall did not affect me nor the rest of the relationship. It was only he that I was named for who ate of the fruit of the tree and then beguiled the man and the woman with it. We others are still ignorant of sin; we are not able to commit it; we are without blemish, and shall abide in that estate always.
The first man, seemingly, to hark back to the Aristarchian conception in the new scientific era that was now dawning was the noted cardinal, Nikolaus of Cusa, who lived in the first half of the fifteenth century, and was distinguished as a philosophical writer and mathematician. His De Docta Ignorantia expressly propounds the doctrine of the earth's motion.
I was ashamed of having exposed my cheap imaginings to him, and was expecting some sarcasms, but it did not happen. He proceeded with his subject: "Nicky's appointed life is sixty-two years." "That's grand!" I said. "Lisa's, thirty-six. But, as I told you, I shall change their lives and those ages. Two minutes and a quarter from now Nikolaus will wake out of his sleep and find the rain blowing in.
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