The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12

n upon the village road, at the quiet hour of noon. The wing of the mansion looking toward the garden and park cast its broad shadow over a whi

emmen, whose weather vane glistened in the sunshine, having only recently been regilded. The front of the house, the wing, and the churchyard wall formed, so to speak, a horseshoe, inclosing a small ornamental garden, at the open side of which was seen a pond, with

er and the daughter of the house. On this account they were today sitting on the tile walk in the shade, with their backs to the open windows, which were all overgrown with wild grape-vines, and by the side of a little projecting stairway, whose four stone steps led from the garden to the ground floor of the wing of the mansion. Both mother an

ood there thus engaged, slowly raising her arms and bringing the palms of her hands together high above her head, her mother would occasionally glance up from her needlework, though always but for a moment and that, too, furtively, because she did not wish to show how fascinating she considered her own child, although in this feeling of motherly pride she was fully justified. Effi wore a blue and white striped linen dress, a sort of smock-frock, which would have shown no waist l

be looking up from her embroidery, called to her: "Effi, you really ought to have been an equestrienne, I'm thin

n this rig, this boy's smock? Sometimes I fancy I shall be put back in short clothes yet. Once I have them on again I shall courtesy like a girl in her early teens, and when our friends in Rathenow come over I s

you like

her mother, embraced her

o passionately. I am always d

their umbrellas at Effi and then ran up to Mrs. von Briest and kissed her hand. She hurriedly asked a few questions and then invited the girls to stay and visit with them, or at least with Effi

ining. The third young lady was Hulda Niemeyer, Pastor Niemeyer's only child. She was more ladylike than the other two, but, on the other hand, tedious and conceited, a lymphatic blonde, with slightly protruding dim eyes, which, nevertheless, seemed always to be seeking something, for which reason the Hussar Klitzing once said: "Doesn't she look as though she we

ven your mama aw

him later, a love story with a real hero and a real heroine, and ending with resignation. It will make you open your eyes wide w

t important consider

anly,' is, you know, one of papa's favorite maxims. And now hel

he girls sat down again, Hulda said: "Now, Effi, now we are read

we can pick some more afterward. But be sure to throw the hulls far enough away, or, better still, lay them here on this newspaper supplement, then we can wrap them u

d Hertha, applying hersel

or three times every day and have never broken any bones yet. The right kind of leg doesn't b

tempt fate. Pride

ness. You are jus

s of finding a husband, pe

me and perhaps I shall soon have him. Oh, I am not worrying about that. Not long ago little Ventivegni from over

did you sa

en to that and said: 'No, I mean at the home of another young lady who is just as decided a brunette as Miss Hul

l the while; may be you don't

ory a good many times, chiefly because it is

he was a distri

ct councillor, and h

Baron von

ree la

said Effi, nettled.

ten did you say? And Geert? Why, there is nobody by that name about h

, I mean in point of time, the better they are able to endure them. But you don't know anything about this and you must not take offense at me for s

d, pray, is

ty-ei

ine

don't you, too? And how accomplished she is in everything, always so sure and at the same time so lady

a thing?" said Hulda. "Why, that is

hink it would please mama if

Hertha. "But are you ever

t much of his time on the seignioral estates of this region, and liked best of all to visit in Schwantikow, at my grandfather Belling's. Of course, it was not on

at came

ed on the scene, who had already attained the title of baronial councillor and the proprietorship of Hohen-

became of him? He didn't commit suicide, ot

suicide, but it was so

an unsucces

and took up the study of the law, as papa would say, with a 'true beer zeal.' But when the war of seventy broke out he returned to the army, with the Perleberg troops, instead of his old regiment, and he now wears the cross. Naturally, f

I don't know of

fies nothing, however, for it is a watering place (every place about there is a summer resort), and the vacation journey that Baron Innste

relative

ere distant cousins on his mother's side, and he doubtless wished above all to see Schwantikow once more and the Belling house, to whi

s your father

not his way. Besides,

y teas

: "Your Ladyship's mother sends the request that your Ladyship make her toilet in good season; the Baron will presumably drive up immediately after one o'clock." While

, you must now wrap up the bundle and put a stone in it, so that it will sink bette

king. But Effi laid the paper bundle in the centre of the quickly gathered up tablecloth a

y enough to say, but wh

only it must have a rime in 'oo;' 'oo'

od,

t all

the landing pier, stepped into the boat tied there, and from the further

it occurs to me, by the way, that in former times poor unfortunate women are sa

here, c

do in Constantinople and it just occurs to me that you must know about it,

ng us about such things. But one natura

member thing