Category: Novels

An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. 3 (of 3). (Ut Mine Stromtid)

The day after Christmas was passed very busily in Mrs. Behrens' house in Rahnstaedt. Louisa was continually to be seen running up and down stairs, for she was finishing the arrangement of her father's room. Whenever she thought it was quite ready, and looked really nice, she w...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I.

The day after Christmas was passed very busily in Mrs. Behrens' house in Rahnstaedt. Louisa was continually to be seen running up and down stairs, for she was finishing the arra...

5. CHAPTER V.

This is not the place to decide whether the year 1848 brought most good or evil into the world. Let everyone give his verdict as he thinks best, I will not be drawn into express...

9. CHAPTER IX.

On the afternoon of the next day, when service was over, for it was Sunday, Kurz came to see Hawermann and Braesig. "How-d'ye-do, how-d'ye-do," he said, "I'm very much put out,...

11. CHAPTER XI.

Friday, the marriage day of Rudolph and Mina, had come, and the weather was as beautiful as it ought always to be at Whitsuntide. Beside the modest farm house at Rexow Schulz th...

10. CHAPTER X.

Next morning when Zachariah Braesig got up, he put both hands up to his head, and said: "You may be glad, Charles, that my headache isn't worse than it is, for otherwise who cou...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

When Braesig had told Hawermann and Mrs. Behrens all the news he had picked up at Rexow and Guerlitz, and had answered all their questions, he rose to go away again: "Don't be a...

15. CHAPTER XV.

Moses was now a very old man, but he was strong and healthy though he found it difficult to walk even a short distance, and did not sleep well at night. He had grown into the ha...

16. CHAPTER XVI.

Mrs. Nuessler took Frida home, and on the way there she dropped many a word of comfort into her sad heart, and her words fell like rain upon a dry and parched field. If hope did...

12. CHAPTER XII.

On the Sunday morning after Mina's marriage, young Mrs. von Rambow went through all her housekeeping duties, saw that everything was rightly done in house and dairy, and entered...

4. CHAPTER IV.

By the help of the remainder of his sisters' money, Alick got through the spring and half of the summer of 1847 pretty well, and when that supply was at an end, he sold off his...

6. CHAPTER VI.

All was quiet at Rexow. That is to say amongst the labourers, Mrs. Nuessler and Rudolph; but young Joseph and young Bolster were not quite so easy in their minds. Young Bolster...

3. CHAPTER III.

Hawermann kept very much alone, and when visitors came to see Mrs. Behrens, he either remained in his room or went out into the garden. There were a great many visitors, for the...

2. CHAPTER II.

New year's day 1846 had come with all its pleasures. The Rahnstaedt people congratulated themselves on the cold weather outside, and on their warm rooms. There was a great deal...

14. CHAPTER XIV.

The hours that had elapsed since Pomuchelskopp's visit had seemed to Mrs. von Rambow the slowest and dreariest she had ever known. Wearily had they passed over her, every new mi...

17. CHAPTER XVII.

A year before I left Mecklenburg to go and live in Thuringia, I went to see the old homesteads where I had spent so many happy days when I was young; I went to Rahnstaedt, and w...

13. CHAPTER XIII.

Let no man be too certain of anything; above all, let him not paint the devil on the wall, for he often comes when no man calls, and seldom waits for an invitation; some of the...

7. CHAPTER VII.

Young Joseph walked up and down the yard followed by Bolster. He often stood still during his walk and rubbed his forehead as if he did not know what to do next. Whenever he did...