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The bells of Freiburg : . SECOND INTERLUDE. Ring out the want, the care, the sin,The faithless coldness of the times. In Memoriam. S Gottfried the younger came tothis sudden conclusion, a generalsmile went round. Well, lad, thou knowest how toit short with a laugh at thine elders,I Uncle Karl, merrily. Nevermind, though; thoust spun it out well first, andpainted us all upon thy web to the very had no idea thy eyes were so sharp and thymemory so good, or Id have thought twiceere I took thee to Rothkreuz that time. Tospy on us like that! Out upon the sharp eyesand long ears of such little
The bells of Freiburg : . SECOND INTERLUDE. Ring out the want, the care, the sin,The faithless coldness of the times. In Memoriam. S Gottfried the younger came tothis sudden conclusion, a generalsmile went round. Well, lad, thou knowest how toit short with a laugh at thine elders,I Uncle Karl, merrily. Nevermind, though; thoust spun it out well first, andpainted us all upon thy web to the very had no idea thy eyes were so sharp and thymemory so good, or Id have thought twiceere I took thee to Rothkreuz that time. Tospy on us like that! Out upon the sharp eyesand long ears of such little pitchers as thou wastin those old days! And to say thy AuntGrethel isnt a beauty! Why, shes the hand- II 2. ii6 THE BELLS OF FREIBURG. somest woman alive, to my mind, still—and inthose days—Grethel, my wife, take thy hand offmy mouth. Not till you stop talking nonsense, how the children are all staring ! Well, Gottfried, my son, I own myself con-quered, said Father Bensel, striking in at thisjuncture. Thou hast made them merry, whilstI did but make them sad. Ay, my son, thouhast the gift of looking on the shiny side ofthings, and thats better any day than to fretoneself about the rough. But go on, theresmore to tell. Not by me, father. The beginning was thyshare, and so must the end be. Well, children, well, if you will have it so;but a prisoners tale can be no merry one. I,too, must cut it short, and pass to happierthings.
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