CHAPTER XXXI.

Annele thaws also, but freezes again

CHAPTER XXXII.

A Stormy Night

CHAPTER XXXIII.

A Friend in Need

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Buried Alive

CHAPTER XXXV.

A Heart touched

CHAPTER XXXVI.

Voices from the Dead

CHAPTER XXXVII.

A Phalanx

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

A Plant grows under the Snow

CHAPTER XXXIX.

Saved

CHAPTER XL.

All's well

THE CLOCKMAKER
OF
THE BLACK FOREST.

CHAPTER XXIII.
THE FIRST NAIL KNOCKED IN, PEACE IN THE HOUSE,
AND THE FIRST SUNDAY GUEST.

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 money?"

"I should like money best."

"There are two crown dollars for you."

Lenz was very much pleased when Franzl told him this--she is a spoiled,
hasty, dear, good child, thought he--and Franzl's idea was: "She is
like our young bailiff's wife at home, of whom the balancemaker's wife
once said: She has always seven visitors in her head, but only six
chairs, so one must always stand, or walk about, while the others are
sitting down." Lenz laughed, and Franzl continued: "We Kunslingers are
sharp enough, but see how nicely your wife has already put every thing
into order; any one else would have taken three days to complete it,
and stumbled at least seventeen times, and broken half the things into
the bargain. Your wife is not left-handed."

Lenz told Annele that Franzl declared she had two right hands, and
Annele was delighted with this praise. Annele now displayed a new
qualification. Lenz begged her to put in a nail in the wall above his
father's file. She hit the nail straight on the head, and Lenz hung up
his mother's picture on the first nail that Annele had knocked in at
home. "So far well," said Lenz. "Even if it is not quite her own face,
still these are her own eyes, which, please God, shall look down on a
peaceful, good, and happy life in this house. Let us always live, so
that