Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...favorite prayer, and the one she taught the children first, was as follows: 0 God so good and kind, Of all our gifts the spring, Without whom nothing is, From whom comes everything, --A healthy body give, And grant that in this frame The soul unharmed may live, The conscience pure remain. CHAPTER XVITI. IT IS ONLY FRIENDS IN NEED THAT ARE FRIENDS INDEED. The exhortations of the good pastor had awakened such a sense of hopeless remorse in the Bailiff, that he felt as if no one in the world could look upon him with compassion. He often sat motionless in the parson's room, his eyes filled with tears, and sometimes refused to drink the wine which was placed before him. One day, while he was in this state, the door opened, and Hiibel-Rudy entered. The Bailiff gazed at him a few moments speechless with terror, then sinking on his knees, he implored forgiveness of the injured man. "Rise, Bailiff!" said the pastor; "he has long since forgiven you." They helped the wretched man to his feet, and he confessed, trembling, that it had seemed to him as if Rudy's mother would certainly appear behind her son. "But you know she is dead," said Rudy. ' I know it! Yet it seemed as if she must be here to reproach me for her wrongs. I suppose she cursed me with her dying breath for all I made her suffer." "No, Bailiff, God be praised!" exclaimed the pastor; "the good Catharine forgave and prayed for you in her last hours, and wished you all manner of good." Rudy repeated the dying message of his mother, which brought sweetest comfort to the soul of the repentant man. When the pastor told him of Rudy's generous offer to allow him fodder for one cow from his newly recovered meadow, Hummel was too much moved...