Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-12-10
-. German Doctors story.


When / was already about t
matriculate at Heidelberg my faith
er died, and / then discovered tina
he was a bankrupt. At the same
time arrived a letter from my uncle
in the United States, who had made
for himself a competency IN the
grocery trade. He offered, if
would emigrate, to pay my ex
penses in a Western medical col
lege. l accepted this offer with
joy, tor to me, as likewise to many
Young Germans of the Burger class,
the Eldorado is America-"the land
of the free and the home of the
braver-where no proud Herr Ba-
ron Hofgeheimrath dares look down
upon and have a contempt for the
toiling one, and where fame and
fortune await the capable.
Even so, at first, in the college
which l entered, everything was tor
me most pleasing; for while some
of the students were of the wealthy,
others, like me, had little enough,
and still all associated delightfully."-
together. knew the English Lam
guage already quite well, and soon
had friends. One Of the wealthy
appreciated me much-he was "sehr
gemuthlich7 Zone cannot translate
that into the English), and we be
came what you call "chums.N The
chum, learning how little had
wherewithal to support existence
proposed that l should give les
sons in the German language. lie
became the first pupil, and soon
found more for me, and one of these
was fashionable young lady. Hell
name but no, / shall not discover
it. Let it suffice for me to say that
she lived in a magnificent house
and she by herself was also mag
nifcent.
The chum was very intimate with
the family, tor he and the brother
willingly associated together, so be
accompanied me to the house for
an introduction. The interior OF
the mansion was truly as magnlh-
cent as the exterior, and already
we had been kept waiting in the
parlOr for some time when--0ch,
Himmel "a little creature, an I'm
dine, tripped into the room. To
me she seemed about eighteen years
old, and she was attIred in a black
velvet dress with a train just as
long as her beautiful body, and
around her small head the light
golden hair waved to take from me
my wits, and set my senses in a
whirl, and her lily white complex
ion and the rose-buds of her lips,
and her eyes So l say no more /;
already l become foolish; the rec
objection alone is too much.
Judge, then, what the living, the
smiling, the glowing reality must
have been.
Before could assemble myself
the chum had introduced me to the
radiant one, as she was extending
to me her shy, shrinking, half-timid
left hand. Somewhat reluctant l
felt to receive it in my broad palm,
and when l touched the slender
lily-whte finger-tips, a thrill, a.
shudder, fearful but also delicious,
pervaded my members, and then
the small hand fluttered back like
a little bird. Mein Here : mein
Herr why tremblest thou even yet
also.
Moreover, when we had made the |
arrangement, she, the laughing one,
me that "she would !
not balfth time know her lessons" |
and when 1 said l would do for her /
my best, replied that with her for a
pupil, that would not be much.
And she had right. 1t was more
than half the time that she did not
learn her lessons for me. And
also often would she with irritation
cast away the book, excIaiming
''Of this stupid thing we have had
enough. Let us TALK
And I, the accursed one, even
also forgetting that L was receiv-
ng the salary for lessons which /
gave not, already blinded by her
sparkling eyes, willingly delighted
10 observe the himmiische smile of
The radiant one, to hear the ripple
IF the laughing voice in the for her
insufficient German, aud she called
me "du."
Ach ! you Americans cannot IN.
lerstand the delight when a beau
it'll maiden calls you "dU," because
ron have discontinued from your
ipeech that divine distinction which
irrives from the proper use and
Employment Of "thon" and "YOu."
But for me, who had never in
ny loveless life been called "du,'
y any maiden, this was over
and by it l was utterly
destroyed fer to me-tO me, the
'oor medical student, the Love had
not gradually, not ra.
ional, but wild, fierce, sudden, like
he cyclone of your Western prai.
lee, casting every thought, every
'rOner Judgment, into one endIess,
ne hopeless ruin; for from that
fst time when she had to me ap.
cared I WOrsbiDDed her. and trulV