Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. In Three Volumes. Vol. II.
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Auerbach Berthold. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. In Three Volumes. Vol. II.
Introduction
CHAPTER I. A GOOD NAME
CHAPTER II. THE MOURNER AND HIS COMPANION
CHAPTER III. WORK AND GOOD DEEDS
CHAPTER IV. EACH ONE FOR HIMSELF
CHAPTER V. PILGRIM'S ADVENTURES
CHAPTER VI. THE WORLD STEPS IN
CHAPTER VII. THE CIVILITIES OF A LANDLORD'S PRETTY DAUGHTER
CHAPTER VIII. HAPPINESS DAWNS, AND A NEW MOTHER SPEAKS
CHAPTER IX. A PARLEY WITH FRIENDS
CHAPTER X. A DINNER WITH PETROWITSCH
CHAPTER XI. THE GREAT CLOCK PLAYS ITS MELODIES, AND FRESH ONES ARE ADDED
CHAPTER XII. A GOOD ESCORT, AND THOUGHTS OF THE FUTURE
CHAPTER XIII. LION, FOX, AND MAGPIE
CHAPTER XIV. PRESSES AND EYES ARE OPENED
CHAPTER XV. YOUNG HEARTS. – A BETROTHAL
CHAPTER XVI. A HEART IS WON
CHAPTER XVII. A FRIEND'S OPINION
CHAPTER XVIII. A REBUFF AND A BETROTHAL
CHAPTER XIX. FIRST VISIT TO A NEW HOUSE
CHAPTER XX. A FIRST DRIVE
CHAPTER XXI. A GAY WEDDING, – AND A HARD NUT TO CRACK
CHAPTER XXII. A MORNING GIFT
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"She was an excellent woman."
"Few like her left."
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This was the way in which the clockmaker Faller talked, and his deep bass voice often trembled from emotion. The others, however, did not let him have all the praise of Lenz to himself. The Pröbler declared, that Lenz was the only one in the whole district, who understood something more than what had been known here from time immemorial, and Schilder-David added: "He passes no man without striving to serve him; every year he repairs the old organ of the blind man at Fuchsberg, and does it for nothing; he often spends an entire holiday mending it, and he has helped me too. He came one day to visit me, and saw how hard I was working to make my wheel revolve properly. He went straight to the miller, and talked to him, and settled it all, and then came and fetched me to an upper loft, where he arranged my workshop, and fastening my wheel to that of the mill, I found I could work three times as fast and with one half the trouble."
Every one was as eager to contribute his offering in praise of Lenz, as if he had been an almsbox.
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