The bells of Freiburg : . THE MIDDLE OF THE STORY. CHAPTER I. HIS fathers son. WAS midway between my ninthand tenth birthdays when thegreat trouble fell upon my fatherwhich compelled him to leaveFreiburg. Mother was very ill at the time, butshe rallied from that and recovered ;because, as she said, she was not going to havefather come back and find her in the grave, forshe knew quite well he could never get onwithout her. As soon as she was about again, a familycouncil was held, supposed to consist only ofherself and Uncle Karl; my eldest sister andI were there also, but that did not signify ;
The bells of Freiburg : . THE MIDDLE OF THE STORY. CHAPTER I. HIS fathers son. WAS midway between my ninthand tenth birthdays when thegreat trouble fell upon my fatherwhich compelled him to leaveFreiburg. Mother was very ill at the time, butshe rallied from that and recovered ;because, as she said, she was not going to havefather come back and find her in the grave, forshe knew quite well he could never get onwithout her. As soon as she was about again, a familycouncil was held, supposed to consist only ofherself and Uncle Karl; my eldest sister andI were there also, but that did not signify ;. 56 THE BELLS OF FREIBURG. according to the elders, we were still consideredto be nobody. Nevertheless I heard everything, and remem-bered it too. I do not think Else did ; she waspractising what I believe she called a doiMe heelin a pair of stockings for father; and a doubleheel seems to take a double quantity of atten-tion ; at least it did with her. Else seldomheard anybody speak if she were knitting it was that Therese, Roschen, and Iheld all our secret consultations when one wasin progress ; and I decided that since my secondand third sisters were capable of secret consul-tations and Else was not, she should knit allthe double heels and they should keep to thesingle ones. An only brother, as you know,generally arranges these things for his sisters. I think I could have carried out my arrange-ment if Uncle Karl had been successful in he was not. His arrangement, which he now proposed inthe family council, was that we should all go onliving at Freiburg during f
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