Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1837-07-18

/ pculi, blood ,ho iam,is dd really pus.c.s. mad.
il',i naniics; 80 Gertrude Muliut. AZ shc grew up
iuNafds wumsnheud. Tho dne aed delicate fri
iatc-, ihr caFy aud dignifcd mo,cmculs bc bright
snd thoughtful cSrtcssipn we've oil above the uIdi.
nary habits and appearance &C The people udh
whom she lived aud, though sic mir elcd among
[ them suh pleasure. and ncuher sfccied nor pci.
( ce,cd difference yet they Themselves discovered
! II aud While few who could not understand ~
appreciate her worth. felt snrty Of the superiority
they we're unwilling admit The rest cf the peas
anity paid her the ;acit tribute OF admiration aud
respect.
And now il was Gertrude Mullcf's bridal morn
ing, aud Though amongst The youths of the villages
round about. there might be- here or there. sore
heart, no one was upwise enough To show his dis
1 appointment Every girl, throughout ten miles of
the OdcnwalJ. vas glad for some knew Gertrude
and loved her and many lhu, loved her not, iho'l
i, dutc well that her fair face should be one out
Of the way. and her swec, voice sound no longer
in the care Of The young men Of the neghbothood.
In short all the youth of her native ke, wished her
happiness and the mairuns colt, as soon as might
be but many Of the elder part of the community
shook the wise mead, and thought that both old
harl Muller and his daughter were doing
wise thing. In the first place, they urged that she
was very young too young to take upon her he
serious duties of n wife. But Ka sad not whit
her mother had been his wife at the same ape
Besides that cogent for marrying COON he
had one which WAS more powerful still. Three
weeks before, a youth, with several gollants IN his
train, had ridden up TO :hc castle Of Etlach, de-
mandlng TO zee its lord, though'a the world knew,
observed Karl, that the Count absent. This
snmr gay young noble. however after rcpusing a
fine OF the castle had made excuse to 60 down
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longer than old Karl liked. He had since return
ed twice alone and saughi by many vile to speak
to Gertrude in private. "And have great reason
TO believe" the forester added. chat he is the
young LandschaJrn Of Neckcrs,cinuch, who hots
at no step which may gain bis IN purposes. SO
ifihe girl is in love, and likes 10 marry. why let
her marry at once in Gods name.
Such was the answer of old Karl Muller to the
first objection of those who had laid their rcmoD-
frances before him in form. But the second Or
lection was more Formidable. why. K,rl," they
said, "ycu are going 10 marry your daughter out
Of the Odcnwnld. when there many young
men who would have given their right hand To
have had her, and would have kept her with US al
ways you are going to give her to citizen she
has not known above year J"
Now TO whom was Gertrude Muller about TO be
welded the reader may be inclined 10 ask aud
did her heart 60 with the hand she TO give
The answer 10 these two questions shall be full aud
satisfactory. little more than a year before,
he TO whom she was la bind herself by ties ndlrsU-
luse, frs, came to the village from the town Of
Hebron. of which it appears, he wns a burgher.
aud his coming, or rather the motive thereof made
old Karl Muller, as well many other old retainer
of the house OF Erach very angry. lie came uesc
to buy timber for mercantile house at Hebron
aud OF course The first instance, aghted at the
house OF the forester. Old Kari briefly told him
that the Count never sold his timber but there
upon the burgher produced from his pocket the or
der ofthe young lord himself for the sale Of 30 ma
ny thousand trees. which the merchant was to
choose nj WILL and to supcrin,cnd in person fhc
cutting down aud removing them. This was u
treble modification 10 old Karl Muller. IL the
first place, it confirmed belief which he had long
entertained, that his young lord was running him
sell al NienBs. Ia the next place he could not
Dear to Gee the trees cut down nt all and in the
third place, the Count gave the young Jsckanupcs
as Karl did not ecrupc to call The citizen, su-
ihori,y which strongly renchcd upon the prvieg-
es of The forester. lie was very much inclined To
be both refractory aud unciy Bot y, ilhelm Ffanz
for go The stranger was called. gave hun so little
cause for wrath aud indignation, heard him with go
much good humor, and sooihed him with such well
applied cOurtesies. that the man ended by assuring
him that it with the Count he was angry, not
with him and then, IN duiy bound asked bim
TO lake up his abode at the furesiers house. VII
helm Franz accepted his invitation frankly and
now 80 many good points IN the young
citizens character. that he conquered all rrejudices
and Won the regard both Of tie old man aud his
tSo lie very handsome youth. though
his iaee rather bronzed by the sun. Ia iras,-
Ing hther and thllher on the business OF The house
aud has DARK back hair though cut Somewhat short
beiore which Tie people Of Erlach did not approve .
OF cufled IN rich masses over the rest Of HE head
Has hand, he good people laughed at, because 1t .
was as white os wumAb's, and they asserted that .
It was fit for nothing bot 10 bold pen behind
desk. la some 81 Their rough sports upon tho
green, howeser he sOou proved that At would g'se
a buffet heh would sIcich the strongest Of them
PROSTATE, that nobody laughed al The "hie
hand afterwards. Though. 30 a citizen ~ell might
be- he was, ia some respects, more eighty mace
than the villagers, yet h,s limbs would bear even
more fatigue, snl occai ionaliy displayed gfesier
strength than theirs ADD a. they had al Hebron
their constant trials Of sk 10 the mtfAel- place, be
far e1celled them 40 al manly sPofIs and Psfililes
EVER thing, ho@eser, that lie Dad, done with