The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction - German

rk, and only gave up the search, when even the sharpest scrutiny of the beds failed to reveal any more white heads. Only then did she hang the basket on her arm, putting the knife in it, and driving

must be a little fat on him and Sultan can have the scraps.... And listen, Susy, dog's fat...." And he appeared to become absorbed in a favorite method of treating gout which he had been

whose contents he passed through his fingers, shaking his head. For mo

You certainly have n

oo. But I can'

that will not make it any more than

r, such as we had before Whitsunday, and then you will see. And there is going to be rain. The water barrel is already smelli

ly. And the poor little stalks too. And

erself comfortable in the stone paved passageway and tie up her asparagus in bunches. But she had scarcely drawn up to the threshold the stool which always stood ready, than she heard, over in the little house with three windows where

id: "The window always open; that's right, Lena. It is a

t, and so I would rather iron in the back room. It is

ill come over to the window for a bit. I can alw

au D?rr. But right here by the

arket umbrella along, the old thing is covered

d across two chairs close to the window and stood so near it that it would have been easy to reach her with one's hand. Meanwhile the flatiron moved busily back and forth. And Frau D?rr also was diligently choo

apron while she was sorting out the stalks. "There, Lena, that will make a little taste of asparagus. And it is just as good as the rest. For it is all nonsense that you must always have the heads. An

so good, Frau D?rr. But w

't like such cheating tricks, even if the broken pieces do taste just as good as the whole stalks. What anyone pays for, he ought to get, only it makes me

eedy and a bit peculiar. But f

old, and maybe a year more. For he tells lies if it suits him to. I keep telling him about strokes of apoplexy and point out people who limp or have their mouths drawn to one side, but he always laughs and will not believe me. But it will happen. Yes, Lena, I have no doubt that it will happen. And perha

s, so as to take out a new one. All this was the work of a moment. And now with a quick turn of the hand she slipped the new hot coal from the tongs into the iron, shut the lit

east he pr

and if she does say anything, it doesn't amount to much, and I never get the ins and outs of it.

arm as if it were Whitsunday, and because Lina Gansauge likes boating, we too

lph. Rudolph i

he only wanted to show off, because she is so young. And while we were laughing and joking like that, and only playing with the oars, we saw all at once that the steamer from Treptow was coming towards us, and as you can imagine, dear Frau D?rr, we were frightened to death and called out to Rudolph that he must steer us out of the way. But the boy had lost his head and just steered us round and round in a circle. And then we began to scream and we should surely have been run down if the two gentlemen in the other boat had not at that very moment taken pity on us in our trouble. With a couple of strokes they reached us and while one of them took firm hold of us with a boat hook and made us

ascal; I know him. But now tell me about the

laughed rather recklessly and said, 'they had rescued us and one must not refuse anything to one's rescuer. But they had really better think about it a little, for we lived almost at the other end of the earth. And it would be really quite a journey.' Thereupon he answered politely, 'All the bett

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used his eyes and noticed everything. And that was quite right;

u thin

only need to look at her.

in a while you can't. An

Frau

after

and I am always glad when he comes. Heavens, it does make one happy to see a little of life. It is often so lonely, away out here. And

ke my word for it. But I know very well, things do not always go that way, and a great many are not willing to follow those rules. And if one will not, one will not, and things must take their own course as they usually do, so long as one is honest and d

ove him. And that is enough for me. And I want nothing more from him, nothing at all. And it makes me happy that my heart beats so

is as it should be. But Lena, is his name really Botho? No on

. But before she could succeed, Sultan barked and one could plainly hear the sound of some one enteri

stood, "you are dripping with sweat. Is it so frightfully hot? And only half-p

lk. But Hahnke refused with thanks. "I have no time, Frau D

na had opene

hat does

It is a good thing that I have work; the more work the better. And this afternoon

ord fo

nto the front room to give her old moth