will not be difficult to me, now
that you are with me again. You know well how our great Hector always
looked up to my brother, or to Frantz, and from a sign understood, when
he was to go, to stay, to lie down, or to eat; the animal has never
once made a mistake: Now, dear papa, thus will your little pet dog
attend to the slightest sign from your dear eyes and understand, and
conceive everything. I was not allowed to speak of many things in the
presence of my brother, many things that Martha related I was unable to
tell you, because you were angry with my nurse formerly; one must,
indeed, learn from childhood to suit one's self to the world. But shall
we see Frantz and Hector again? my brother too? ah, it has ever floated
in my mind, that he would one day become downright godless; for no good
can come of it, when men approach God as it were too rudely."

The father descended again, and was very much surprised to find a newly
arrived guest in his host's room. Old Godfred was at that moment
employed in dressing two deep and dangerous wounds in the head of a
young lad, who seemed scarcely fourteen years of age. "See now,
cousin," cried the talkative Barbara, turning towards him, "as I told
you, our Sam-Rocious, as the old gentleman called him, a short time
ago, is again seized with a vertigo, a real vagabond, as they call such
deserters; who asks here in the village after such and such an one,
after a coach and strange travellers, and immediately our dealer in
herbs there brings him to our house, because he has something to cure,
which is once for all his greatest passibility." The Counsellor of
Parliament listened not to the chattering, but examined with the
greatest attention the handsome countenance and noble expression of the
stranger, who seemed to be yet almost a boy. This sight attracted him
the more, as the supposition occurred to him, that this wounded youth
might probably be that Martin of whose astonishing fearlessness the
doctor had spoken. Emotion and gratitude mingled therefore in those
feelings of sympathy which drew him towards the sufferer, and he only
waited for the others to retire to interrogate him. The surgeon Godfred
seemed dissatisfied at the appearance of the wounds, he comforted the
youth, and cut his short brown hair still shorter, and stroked his
handsome head with tender sympathy. "The Lord has blessed us with
money," exclaimed he aloud, "it shall benefit you, not only thee, I was
going to say,