Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. In Three Volumes. Vol. III.

It had been a sultry day, and was still a close, sultry evening, when the Landlord of the Lion, who had driven to the town in an open caleche with his pair of chesnuts, returned...

The ravens flew over the valley, and flew over the hills, and at last they flew past a small house, where an old woman was seated at the window spinning coarse flax, and her tea...

"Only look, for it will please you. See, I set agoing two pendulums, on both these clocks, the one from right to left, and the other the reverse way. If you will observe, you wi...

We are in a country where no thaw comes for many months when once the frost fairly sets in. The Morgenhalde is the only exception to this; there the sun usually shone with such...

"I know why you are come," said Petrowitsch, when the Doctor entered; "but sit down." He drew in a chair for him near the stove, where in front there was a bright fire blazing,...

When Lenz left the Doctor to mount the hill, he was full of happy confidence. Two paths were open to him--his uncle or the manufactory. When he saw lights shining in his house,...

The bridal week, and many other weeks and months have passed away, about which there is not much to relate. Annele laughed at Lenz almost every morning, for he could never recon...

While Lenz was journeying through the country in the deepest inward grief, Annele was alone at home with her thoughts. She was alone,--sadly alone,--for Lenz had not even left h...

In order to give security to people who, being strangers, were cautious in their dealings with him, he had deliberately deceived those who were connected with him, and dependent...

At this very hour Pilgrim intended to have gone to church; but on the way he turned, and went several times past Petrowitsch's house. At last he stopped at the door, and pulled...

"Get a light, Lenz; get a light! Let us at least see our danger, whatever it may be. You sit there in the dark, groaning and lamenting: why are you shedding tears on my hand? Wh...

Petrowitsch awoke at last, and related to Lenz, that in the days of his youth, he remembered a house being overwhelmed by an avalanche in a similar manner, and that, when they a...

Lenz went and sat down beside Annele in the sitting room. For some time neither said a word; the child alone laughed, and tried alternately to grasp the light, and then her fath...

Next day Annele seemed quite satisfied again with Franzl--she was such a capital servant, and Annele said: "I have not yet given you any thing, Franzl; do you prefer a gown or m...

Resistance was no use. Lenz took his place beside the Techniker, enveloped in the fur cloak, and the horses stepped out merrily; it was a most comfortable sledge, and the bells...

Petrowitsch ate with a good appetite, and pressed Lenz to eat also, but he could not bring himself to swallow a morsel. He was anxiously listening to every sound in Annele's roo...

At the self-same hour--it was twelve o'clock at noon--Faller went to Lenz's home, wishing to tell him that he was now freed from the security for his house. It was raining and s...

He did so, but the confusion of sounds quite stupefied him; even at this moment of deadly anguish, the discord was insupportable to him. In his excitement, he had injured the me...

As Annele fell, she upset the lamp on the table, which came down with a crash, and was extinguished, leaving them in entire darkness. Lenz rubbed Annele's temples with the brand...