Category: Novels
On midsummer-day 1829, a man was seated in an arbour in a desolate garden, plunged in sad reverie. The land to which the garden belonged was a leasehold, situated on the river Peen, between Anclam and Demmin, and the man who was seated in the cool, shady arbour was the tenant...
Wheat was again growing in the field by the mill, as when Hawermann came to Puempelhagen eleven years before. Hawermann was on his way back from church, for it was Sunday, and h...
12. CHAPTER XII.So it was that the little girls' mode of life was settled as far as it is possible for human beings to settle the future of other people. But fate often interferes with the best...
5. CHAPTER V.About ten o'clock in the morning, a few days later, the sun was peeping down on the garden of Guerlitz manor-house from behind a cloud. Her daughter, the earth, had been having...
2. CHAPTER II.About forty miles from the place where Hawermann had laid his wife in her quiet grave, was the farm of which Joseph Nuessler, his brother-in-law, was tenant. The offices were il...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Braesig set out on his journey to the water-cure establishment[11] at Easter, and at the same time Mr. von Rambow and the three daughters arrived at Puempelhagen.--"I fear that...
3. CHAPTER III.Braesig arrived in good time next morning to go to Puempelhagen with Hawermann. Mrs. Nuessler was sitting in the porch paying the farm-servants, and Joseph was sitting beside he...
11. CHAPTER XI.The three years since his father's death which Alick had spent with his regiment, and which he had filled with agricultural study, heroic deeds and a love-affair, had been equal...
7. CHAPTER VII.The winter passed without the occurrence of any event of particular interest. Hawermann was accustomed to the monotony of his life, and was perfectly contented with it as far as...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Next day--it was Sunday morning--when Braesig awoke, he gave himself a comfortable stretch in the soft bed. "A luxury," he said to himself, "that I've never before enjoyed, but...
9. CHAPTER IX.Three days later Alick arrived, too late to see his father, but not too late to pay him the last honours. The postilion blew the usual cheery blast on his horn as they drove int...
10. CHAPTER X.That made it worse, much worse for the poor lieutenant next morning when David was shown into his room. No one could accuse David of being softhearted--not even his own mother--...
6. CHAPTER VI.Hawermann never heard of what had happened at the parsonage, but from that day his daughter was even more loving and tender to him than before, as if she had determined that her...
1. CHAPTER I.On midsummer-day 1829, a man was seated in an arbour in a desolate garden, plunged in sad reverie. The land to which the garden belonged was a leasehold, situated on the river P...