. They did not say it to each other, but they
knew in their hearts, that the memory of their admirable mother bloomed
always afresh in their hearts, just as the flowers in the fields, year
after year, bear fresh blossoms.

Faller's widow and her daughter dined with them. On the former
lamenting--"Oh! that my husband had only lived to see our twin sons
setting off together to travel!"--Lenz told her how much she ought to
rejoice, that the twins that Kathrine had adopted years ago, had done
so well in the world. The one, who was a soldier, had become a
corporal; and the other was to inherit his adopted father's property.
Her daughter, a tall slender girl of fifteen, said she had promised to
write to her brother, and to Wilhelm, the first of every month.

After dinner Lenz returned to work as usual. This day eighteen years,
he had soothed a much more excited state of mind by work. It was
invariably his custom to master all his emotions in his workshop.
Annele sat beside him with her needlework. She was no longer restless,
and her eyes no longer flashed with impatience, but had a sweet and
calm expression; and Lenz's work always succeeded better when she was
near. She spoke little, and the whole course of her present thoughts
might be guessed from her saying--"Our Wilhelm has six shirts of that
fine linen, that your excellent mother spun with her own hands."

The places of the two lads were quickly filled, for from all sides
people pressed forwards to place their sons with Lenz.

Franzl was particularly proud and pleased, that Lenz took a grandson of
the Balancemaker in Knuslingen, as an apprentice.

In the evening the Schoolmaster arrived, with a large bundle of papers
under his arm. He laid them down. You could plainly read on them, in
large letters--"Acts of the Clockmakers' Union."

The Schoolmaster begged Lenz, before the Members of the Union
assembled, to walk with him in the wood. Lenz went with him. In the
mean time Annele placed two rows of chairs straight in the room, for
Lenz was Master of the Union.

THE END.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,
AND CHARING CROSS.

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