. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. otectors of thevillagers — create new industries and bring ina better state of things in every way ? No, replied the priest, not even if theywere kindly disposed to the villagers. What mypeople want is not patronage but liberty. Theycan help themselves. To be aided would onlyteach them dependence and servility. Moreover,the owner of the castle does not love her is not of them; how can she love them ?It is her plan to turn them all from their homes; and she broughtan architect with her who has been measuring and taking notes allabout the village, an
. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. otectors of thevillagers — create new industries and bring ina better state of things in every way ? No, replied the priest, not even if theywere kindly disposed to the villagers. What mypeople want is not patronage but liberty. Theycan help themselves. To be aided would onlyteach them dependence and servility. Moreover,the owner of the castle does not love her is not of them; how can she love them ?It is her plan to turn them all from their homes; and she broughtan architect with her who has been measuring and taking notes allabout the village, and walking into houses without so much as say-ing by your leave. I found him in the chapel making drawings,and he did not scruple to tell me that it was the contessas inten-tion to make over the sacred edifice into a ball-room. We willbanish all this dirty charcoal and these grimy charcoal-burners, hesaid; the entire village shall be swept away, and I will restorethe castle to its mediaeval state in a way that will make the ghost. FATHER PACIFICO AGAIN. HTSfe e I
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