The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-06

.his daily life, causing him to live IN
terror as to the lite to come. That it
is comfort to him let US not doubt.
But it has not on him generally that
outward, ever palpable, unmista able
effect, making its own of his gait, his
countenance, his earb, his voice, his
words, his eyes, his thoughts, his
| clothes, his very sneeze, his cough,
his signs, his groans, which is the re-
suit of Calvinistic impressions thor
oughly brought home to the mind
and lovingly entertained in the heart.
Madame Staubach was in truth a
German Anabaptist; but it will be
enough for us to say that her man
ncrs and gait we're the manners and
gait of Calvinist
While Linda Tressel was child,sh
hardly knew that her aunt was pecn-
liar in her religious ideas. That mode
of life which comes to a child comes
naturally; and Linda, though she was
probably not to play as freely as did
the other BARNS around her, though
she was taken more frequently to the
house of worship which her aunt
frequented, aud targed more strictly
in the reading Of godly books, did not
know, till she was child no longer,
that she was subjected to harder
usage than others endured. But,
when Linda was eleven, the widow
was persuaded by friend that it was
her duty to send her niece to school;
and when Linda, at sixteen, ceased to
be school girl, she had learned to
think that the religion of her aunt's
nelghbors was more comfortable re-
ligion than that practiced by her aunt;
and, when she was eighteen, she had
further learned to think that the
life of certain neighbor girls was
pleasanter life than her own.
When she was twenty, she had
studied the subject more deep
ly, and had told herself, that
though her spirit was prone to rebel
against her aunt, and though she
would fam have been allowed to do
as did other girls of twenty, yet she
knew her aunt to be a good woman,
and knew that it behooved her to
obey. Had not her aunt come all the
way from Cologne, from the distant
city of Rhenish Prussia, to live in
Nuremburg, for her sake, and should
she be unfaithful and rebellious?
Now Madame Staubach understood
and appreciated the proneness to re-
quite understand, and perhaps could
not appreciate, the attempt to putdown
that rebellion which the niece was
ever making from day to day.
| have said that the widow Stau
bach had brought with her to NJ
remberg some income upon which to
live in the red house with the three
gables. Some small means of her
own she possessed, some few hundred
forms year, which were RENTED to
her punctually from Cologne; but
this would not have suf6ced even
for the moderate wants of herself,
her niece, and of the old maid fetch
en-, who lived with them, and who
had lived with Linda's mother. But
there was a source of income very
ready to the widows hand and of
which it was u matter of course that
she should in her circumstances avail
herself. She and her niece could not
fill the family home, and portion of
it was let to ledger. This ledger
was Herr Steinmarc-Peter Stein
marc, who had been clerk to Linda's
father when Linda's father had been
clerk to the city magistrates, and who
was now clerk to the city magistrates
himself. Peter Steinmarc in the old
days had inhabited a garnet in the
house, and had taken his meals at his
master table; but now the first floor
of the house was his own, the big
airy pleasant chamber looking out
from under one gable on to the clear
water, and the broad passage under
the middle gable, and the square large
bedroOm-the room in which Linda
had been born-under the third
gable. The windows from these
apartments all looked out on to the
slow-fowing but clear stream, which
ran so close below them, that the
town clerk might have sat and fshed
from his windows, had he been so
minded, for there was no road there
the narrow slip of a garden no
broader than a balcony. And oppo-
site, beyond the river where the road
ran, there was a broad place-the Ru-
den Platz; and every house surround
ing this was picturesque with diff
ferent coiors, and with many gables;
and the points of the houses rose up
in sharp pyramids, of which every
brick and every tile was in its place,
sharp clear, well formed, and appro-
pirate, in those very inches of space
which each was called upon to fill.
For in Nuremberg tits the religion OF
the community that no house shall
fall into decay, that no form of city
beauty shall be allowed to vanish,
that nothing of picturesque antiquity
shall be changed. From age to age,
though stones and bricks are changed,
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