Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-08-29

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has passed, while one says: wha.
might have been, what is now" To
be sure. it is difficult. but courage,
| Anneliese Today as the most trying
! beginning, pick out tho object, in the
midst Of which you have grown up,
the furniture and effects, which you
cannot take abroad with you, and
which Aunt-Countess will take care
Of for you Where can she think Of
storing them in her tiny house? God
| knows-So, forward!
With a jerk at which | had to smile
myself, / moved away from the tree
trunk and walked in the mist through
the garden to the house. My room
was already quite dark, but the fire
in the stove cast its red light upon
J the floor. 1t was so coy after the fog
without. All, who knows, where one
can again find such dear, coy spot
in which to mediate in delightful
solitude? Who could tell If there
would ever be moments again for me,
! which would be mine alone, and were
Il but to spend them in longing, in
ardent longing for a kind word. for a
caress from cousins old, wrinkled
hand? | loved my home nevertheless,
in spite OF all, loved it from the time
in which the old house still seemed
to me like my own possession, when
papa and mamma were happy and
sat between them upon the sofa in the
twilight, my little dog in my lap and
behind me were clasped in silent con-
tentment the hands of my parents,
Then came all the trials, but the
glamour of the past was yet so strong
that it outshone the misery and made
it seem to me at this moment impOs-
sible to leave this home forever.
Almighty Father were but the part
ing over!
| remained seated and stared with
burning eyes into the flames. All,
there were fires everywhere at which
to warm oneself, and human happi-
ness bloomed plentifully on earth,
but it was not mine, Yet, he who
goes out among strangers, must throw
overheard as superiuOus luggage,
his personal feelings and wishes with
other unnecessary things. | hoped
the Countess would give up the plan
of accompanying me to Hamburg,
Why prolong the torture of parting?
Oh, | loved Germany so dearly! Was
not Germany sufficiently large for me
to hide myself somewhere, why had
the sea to roll between me and my
unhappy past?
Cousin clattered the coffee-cups in
the adjoining room. Incredible, how
early it grew dark when it was misty
| And in England the mist would be
much worse-ah, and | so dearly
loved the sun TO burn gas all day
and to have the children in the room,
children who were perhaps quito un-
ruIy-two boys and n girl-in addition
this ycarning ensatinon-perhaps
should fall i'll and die, Did people
| really die of Inconsistencies? But be-
forc one dies, one is i'll, and how
| terrible 1t Is to be Ill in a strange land,
in a hospital where q number of beds
are ranged against the walls, and in
which lies moaning fellow-creature,
where to ones own pain is added that
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