The bells of Freiburg : . They sometimes crysadly in the Forest at nights. I assured her, rather vehemently, that I wasafraid of nothing. She smiled her calm, sweetsmile, wished me good-night, paused a momentat the door as though hesitating, and then cameback and kissed me on either cheek,—Good-night, dear child, she said, and may God blessthee. When I fell asleep soon after, it was still withthe feeling of her kisses on my cheek, and Idreamt that it had been my mother. CHAPTER THE CLOCKS OF ROTHKREUZ. HE old church of Rothkreuz stoodin the centre of the village, itslittle belfry with it
The bells of Freiburg : . They sometimes crysadly in the Forest at nights. I assured her, rather vehemently, that I wasafraid of nothing. She smiled her calm, sweetsmile, wished me good-night, paused a momentat the door as though hesitating, and then cameback and kissed me on either cheek,—Good-night, dear child, she said, and may God blessthee. When I fell asleep soon after, it was still withthe feeling of her kisses on my cheek, and Idreamt that it had been my mother. CHAPTER THE CLOCKS OF ROTHKREUZ. HE old church of Rothkreuz stoodin the centre of the village, itslittle belfry with its over-lappingtiles rising like a red extinguisherin the midst of the dark, hood-likeroofs of the Black Forest this little church therebegan, next morning betimes, to trickle manystreams of people from the cottages and hamletslying hid in the recesses of the wood. Some ofthem came from great distances, having spent allthe week, from Sunday to Sunday, in some dimglade, without seeing any living being beyondtheir own families, except the squirrels, thewoodpeckers, and the shy Forest deer. Some ofthe young maidens looked as shy as deer them-selves ; and as for the men, all had the quiet,almost rugged gravity which suits so well withforest shades. y4 THE BELLS OF FREIBURG. A motley stream it was that gathered in thehttle green enclosure, which the lo^v woodencrosses, thickly set among the grass, marked asGods acre, cut from His living forest and con-secrated as a
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